36 The Natural Hiftory 



1 8. Indico. Grows three or four foot 

 high, and bears pale purplifh Flowers. 



19. White Indico. Has a fpungy Stalk, 

 hairy Leaves, a white Flower of a Daifie 

 make and fize $ the Stalks or Roots broken 

 yields a blew juice. 



20. Love Apple- Grows about a yard 

 high 5 the Leaves linuated, foft and prick- 

 ley, on the middle Rib of the under Side 5 the 

 Flowers five leaved,of a greenifh yellow : the 

 Fruit edible,of a Medlar fize 5 yellow when 

 ripe, but before whitifli with green ftreaks. 



21. White- flowred Love Apple. Its Stalks 

 thorny and hoary, as are its Leaves, and 

 fomewhat jagged 5 the Fruit of an Apple 

 fize, hoary, yellow and mining when ripe $ 

 its Shell brittle as an Egg, the Pulp very 

 fweet, and a grateful Food to the Ants, 



22. Hoary Love Apple. Its Branches and 

 Leaves both hoary and thorny 5 the lafthas 

 generally feven Angles .• the Flower of a 

 faint blew, refembling a five-pointed Star. 



23. The Melon Applet Bears a yellow five 

 leaved Flower in fize and fhape like a Daffo- 

 dil 5 thefe grow fifteen or twenty together 

 on very long Pedicles : The Fruit mining 

 and black, but when ripe are often found 

 empty. 



24. Heart-leaved Mifletoe. Its Flowers 

 brown yellow, fix leaved with yellow 

 Threads : its Fruit like a Clove, 



25. Nettle-berry. Has its Stalks and Leaves 

 hairy 3 thelaft foft, grow oppofite, and are 



lightly 



