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Treacle- Berries. See before Salomons Seal. 
Oak of Hicrufalem. See before. 
CW' <?/" Cappadocea. See before. 
Earth-Nuts, differing much from thofe in England, one 
fort of them bears a molt, beautiful Flower. 1 
Sea-Tears, they grow upon the Sea banks in abun- 
dance, they are good for the Scurvy and Dropfie, boiled 
and eaten as a Sallade, and the broth drunk with it. 2 
Indian Beans, better for Phyjick ufe than other Beans. 
Indian Beans, falfly called French beans, are better for 
Phyfick and Chyrurgery [57] than our Garden Beans. 
Probation ejl: 3 
the second one above mentioned, and perhaps //. strumosus, L., Gray. The 
other kind, with " black seeds," was probably //. divaricaius, L. 
1 See p. 47. The earth-nuts of Gerard (p. 1064) are species of Bulbocastanum 
of authors. 
2 Not clear to me. But, taking the alleged virtues and the station into ac- 
count, our author may mean here the rather striking American sea-rocket (Cakile 
Americana, Nutt.) ; which, it is likely, occurred to him. Spurge-time (p. 43) 
also grows on "sea-banks." 
3 "French beans; or, rather, American beans. The herbalists call them 
kidney-beans, from their shape and effects; for they strengthen the kidneys. 
They are variegated much, — some being bigger, a great deal, than others ; some 
white, black, red, yellow, blue, spotted : besides your Bonivis, and Calavances, 
and the kidney-bean that is proper to Ronoake. But these are brought into the 
country: the other are natural to the climate." — Josselyns Voyages, p. 73-4. R. 
Williams (Key, /. c, p. 20S) gives mantisquussedask as the Indian word for beans. 
Cornuti (whose book, indeed, is not confined to Canadian plants; though, on 
the other hand, he was sometimes ill informed of the true locality of his speci- 
mens; as in the case of Asclepias Cornuti, Decsne, which he published as A. 
Syriaca) figures and describes, at pp. 184-5, Phaseolus multiflorus, L. ; and this 
