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do make a pretty appearance in the latter part of 
fum'fner; when they are properly difpofed in the 
borders of the flower-garden ; or if they are planted 
in pots, for the decoration of courts, &c. being in- 
termixed with other annual plants, which are in 
beauty at the fame feafon, they v/ill make an agree- 
able variety ; efpecially, if as many of the different 
lhaped fruits, of both the red and yellow colours as 
can be procured, are propagated. 
The four laft forts have perennial fhrubby ffalks, 
which rife four or five feet high •, thefe are not fo 
hardy as the other, therefore when the plants have 
been brought forward in the hot-bed, as was di- 
rected for the common forts, they fliould be each 
planted in a pot filled with rich earth, and plunged 
into a very moderate hot-bed, under a deep frame, 
where they may have room to advance •, and in warm 
weather, they fliould have a large fhare of air ad- 
mitted to them, but mult be covered with glalfes 
every night, or in cold weather, and frequently 
watered. With this management, they will produce 
plenty of fruit in autumn, which ripen in winter ; 
but they muft be removed into the ftove, on the firft 
approach of froft, and placed where they may have 
a temperate warmth, in which they v/ill thrive better 
than in a greater heat •, and the fruit will continue in 
beauty moft part of winter, making a pretty appear- 
ance in the ffove during that feafon. 
The feeds of the feventh fort I received from Egypt : 
the leaves of this are much narrower than thole of 
any other fort I have yet feen ; the pods always grow 
ered, and are produced in great plenty, fo that the 
plants make a good appearance for three months in 
the winter, and they may be preferved two or three 
years but as the young plants are the moft fruitful, 
fo few perfons preferve the old longer, than till they 
have perfected their fruit, when they begin to lole 
their beauty. I have cultivated this fort feveral years, 
and have never found it vary, fo conclude it is a 
diftinCt fpecies. 
Tfle eighth fort I received from Antigua, by the title 
of Hen Pepper. This rifes v/ith a fhrubby ftalk 
three or four feet high, fending out many branches 
toward the top : the fruit is about half an inch long, 
lhaped in form of an obtufe cone, and of a bright 
red, growing ereCt. This ripens its fruit in winter, 
when it makes a pretty appearance. 
The ninth fort grows about the fame height as the 
eighth, but differs from it in the fhape and frze of 
the fruit : thofe of this fort being about the bignefs 
of a Barberry, and nearly of the fame fhape. This 
I have long cultivated, and have not obferved it to 
alter. 
The tenth fort is commonly known by the title of 
Bird Pepper in America. This rifes with a Ihrubby 
ftalk four or five feet high : the leaves are broad, and 
rounder at the ends than thofe of the other forts; and 
of a lucid green : the fruit grows at the divifions of 
the branches, Handing ereCt : thefe are fmall, oval, 
and of a bright red-, they are much more lharp and 
biting than thofe of the other forts. From the fruit 
of this fort is made the Cayan butter, or what the 
inhabitants of America call Pepper-pots, which they 
efteem as the beft of all the fpices. The following 
is a receipt for making a Pepper-pot : take of the 
ripe pods of this fort of Capficum, and dry them 
well in the fun, then put them into an earthen or 
ftone pot, mixing flour between every ftrata of pods, 
and put them into an oven after the baking of bread, 
that they may be thoroughly dried after which, 
they muft be well cleanfed from the flour, and if any 
of the ftalks remain to the pods, they fliould be taken 
off, and the pods beaten, or ground to fine powder 
to every ounce of this, add a pound of Wheat flour, 
and as much leaven as is fufficient for the quantity 
intended ; after this has been properly mixed and 
wrought, it fhould be made into fmall cakes, and 
baked in the fame manner as common cakes of the 
fame fize then cut them into fmall parts, and bake 
them again, that they may be as, dry and hard as 
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bifcuit, which, beaten into fine powder and fifted# 
may be kept for ufe. This may be tiled as the com- 
mon Pepper, to feafon meat or broth, or for any of 
the purpofes that the ordinary Pepper is ufed : it 
gives a better relifh to meat or fauce, and is found 
of excellent ufe to break and difcufs the wind, both 
in the ftomach and the guts •, therefore is very proper ( 
fauce for fuch meats as are flatulent and windy, or 
that breed much moifture or crudity. A fcruple of 
this powder put into chicken or veal broth, is greatly 
commended for comforting cold ftomachs;, or dif- 
pelling of phlegm or vifcous humours, and helping 
digeftion. 
Moft of the forts of Capficum are natives of both the 
Indies but they have been brought to Europe from 
America, where they abound in all the Caribbee 
Hands, and are by the inhabitants greatly ufed in all 
their fauces ; but efpecially by the negroes, who are 
great devourers of them from whence it had the 
appellation of Negro Pepper, and probably the title 
of Guinea Pepper may have been applied to it for 
the fame reafon. In Spain and Portugal thefe fruit 
are much cultivated, where they are ufed for the fame 
purpofes as in America ; but in England, they are 
chiefly cultivated for ornament, being rarely ufed for 
fauce, or in medicine ; though it is much ufed in 
both, in feveral other countries. 
If the ripe pods of Capficum are thrown into the fire, 
they will raife ftrong and noifome vapours, which 
occafion vehement fneezing and coughing, and often 
vomiting, in thofe who are near the place, or in the 
room where they are burnt. Some perfons have 
mixed the powder of the pods with fnuff, to give to 
others for diverfion; but where it is in quantity, there 
may be danger in ufing it, for it will occafion filch 
violent fits of fneezing, as to break the blood-veffels 
of the head, as I have obferved in fome to whom it 
has been given. 
CAPSUL ATE pods [of capfula, Let. a cheft] are 
little, fhort, dry feed-veffels of plants. 
CAPSUL A TED plants, are fuch as produce their 
feeds in fhort dry pods or hulks. 
CARAC ALLA. See Phaseolus. 
C A R A G A N A. See Orobus. 
CARDAMINDUM. See T rop/eolum. 
CARDAMINE. Lin. Gen. Plant. 727. [takes its 
name of Cardamum, which is called Nafturtium ; 
hence it is a fmall fpecies of Nafturtium,] in Engiifti, 
Ladies Smock. 
The Characters are, 
1 The empalement is compofed of four oval oblong leaves. 
'The flower hath four oblong petals, placed inform of a 
crofls , which at their bafle are ere ft , but flpread open 
above , and are much larger than the empalement ; it hath 
fix fiamina , four of which are the length of the empale- 
ment \ the other two , which are oppofite , are much longer : 
thefe are terminated by oblong , heart f japed, erebi fum- 
mits. It hath a fender cylindrical germen, as long as the 
ftamina , having no ftyle , but is crowned by an obtufe 
ftigma. The germen afterward turns to a long, compref- 
fed, cylindrical pod, with tzvo cells, opening in two valves 
which twifl fpirally , and cafl out the feeds when ripe, by 
their elafiicity. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond fedcion 
of Linnaeus’s fifteenth clafs, intitled Tetradynamia 
SHiquofa ; the flowers of this clafs have fix ftamina, 
four of which are fnort, and two are longer, Handing 
oppofite, and the feeds are included in long pods. 
The Species are, 
1. Cardamine (Pratenfs) fob is pifinatis, folio! is radi- 
cal! bus fubrotundis, caulinis lanceolatis. Lin. Sp. 
Plant. 656. Ladies Smock with winged leaves, whefe 
lobes at bottom are roundifh , but thefe on the ftalks are 
fpear-fh'aped. Cardamine pratenfis magno Acre pur- 
purafeente. Tourn. Inft. 224. 
2. Cardamine ( Parvifiora ) foliis pinnatis, foliolis inci- 
fis, fioribus exiguis, caule eredto ramofo. Ladies 
Smock with winged leaves , cut lobes, very fmall flowers, 
and an upright branching ftalk. Cardamina annua ex- 
iguo flore. Tourn. Inft. R. H, 224. 
3. Cardamine 
