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of their Summits is not eafily difeover’d without 3 
Glafs. 
The Piftil or Embryo of the Fruit, which is little, 
and yet occupies the whole Inftde of the Calyx , is 
of the fame Colour with the Bottom of this, that 
is, green. Afterwards it fwells in all Dimenfions, 
and grows into a Berry, of the Shape and Size of a 
Goofeberry, of three or four Lines in Diameter. At 
fitft it is of a pale Green, then a bright Purple, and 
in its Maturity of a dark Red. Each Berry is fup- 
ported on aftrong thick Pedicle, attached to a fmall 
Bunch. Its Subftance is a white tranfparent Flefh, 
full of Juice, much refembling Jelly, which fur- 
rounds a fingle round Grain, marbled with black or 
brown Spots, as in the Tortoife-fhell, when ripe. 
This Grain is as large as a Grain of Hemp-feed, that 
is, about two Lines in Diameter, but fometimes lefs. 
It is properly a Kernel, or a Shell that has a Cavity, 
which inclofes a fort of little round Almond, of a 
Straw-colour, yellowifh on its outward Surface, and 
pale in its inward Subftance, which is pretty firm. 
Qualities . 
All the Parts of our Plant have an acid pungent 
Tafte and Smell, vaftly like our Garden- Crefles, but 
more biting. The Fruit is the moll pungent Part of 
the Whole" The Smell of the Plant is perceptible 
at feven or eight Paces Diftance, when a Pcrlbn is 
to Leeward. 
The Natives of the Country ufe it againft the Bite 
of the Scorpion, by rubbing the wounded Part with 
its bruifed Leaves. They alfo employ its warm In- 
fufion to walh the Bodies of their Children, in order 
to 
