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In North-Car olina and Virginia it is called Xapon, 
and is ufed by the Englijh j and our Author thinks 
it the fame Plant as the Taraguay Tea, which comes 
from Buenos Ayres . 
58. Anguis e ceeruleo albo varius ; The 
JVam]> am Snake; fo called from the Refemblance 
it hath in its Colours to the IV amp am , or Indian 
Money, made of Pieces of Shells blue and white, 
ftrung together. 
Ltlium Carolinianum ; fore croveo , punllato, 
5 P eta /is longioribus , & angufiioribus : The red 
Lilly. 
59. Cte cilia m a cm l at a ; The Glafs Snake. 
Chryfanthemum Americanum , Doronici folio , 
fore for is Mali Terfica color e ; umbone magno pro- 
minente ex atro pur pur eo , viridi S) Aura fulgent e : 
This Plant hath flower’d in England . 
60. Anguis niger y maculis rubris & luteis ele- 
ganter varius : The Bead-Snake. They are com- 
monly found under Ground. 
Convolvulus iradice tuberofa y efculenta. Sloane’s 
Hift. Jamaic . Vol. I. p. 150. The Virginian 
‘ Potato . The Roots of thefe Plants are the prin- 
cipal Subfiftance of the greater Part of Africa, and 
the fouthern Parts of as well as moft of the 
People, both black and white, in the Colonies in 
America . The Author enumerates five Kinds : 
the common c Potato, J thz Bermudas , the Brimfone , 
the Carrot , and Claret Totatoes , each of which 
he gives Defcriptions of 
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