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where the fait water overflows it almoft evety tide, 
and can rarely be made to grow in a garden, or at 
leaft to laft longer there than one year ; but it being 
eaflly gathered in the places before-mentioned, the 
markets are fupplied from thence by the herb-women, 
who make it their bufinefs to gather herbs. 
This fort differs from the firft in the fhape of its 
leaves, thefe being longer, and finuated on their edges. 
It flowers a little later in the feafon *, both thefe forts 
are ul'ed in medicine. 
The little Welch Scurvy Grafs is a biennial plant, 
and may be preferved in a garden, if planted in a 
ftrong foil and a fhady fituation. This is preferved 
in curious gardens of plants, but' is not of any ufe in 
medicine, though it is by far the warmeft and moft 
pungent of all the forts. This grows plentifully in 
Mulcovy, as alfo in Davis’s Streights. 
The fourth fort is a low trailing plant, whofe ftalks 
grow fix inches long, and lie proftrate on the ground 
the leaves are angular, and in fhape like thofe of Ivy. 
This is found growing naturally in fome parts of Eng- 
land, and is annual. It flowers and feeds about the 
fame time as the firfl fort. 
The fixth fort is a biennial plant, which, ufually 
grows about a foot and a half high, with upright 
ftalks, garnifhed with angular heart-fhaped leaves, 
embracing the ftalks with their bafe •, the flowers are 
produced in loofe fpikes at the end of the branches ; 
they are very fmall, white, and are fucceeded by fhort 
fwelling pods filled with round feeds. It flowers in 
May, and the feeds ripen in July and Auguft. This 
may be propagated by feeds as the common fort ; 
and if fown in autumn, will more certainly fucceed 
than in the fpring. 
The Horfe Radifh is propagated by cuttings or buds 
from the fides of the old roots. The beft feafon for 
this work is in Oflober or February *, the former for 
dry lands, the latter for moift j the ground fhould be 
trenched at leaft two fpits deep, or more if it will al- 
low of it. The manner of planting it is as follows : 
provide yourfelf with a good quantity of offsets, 
which fhould have a bud upon their crowns, but it 
matters not how fhort they are ; therefore the upper 
part of the roots which are taken up for ufe, may be 
cut off about two inches long with the bud to it, which 
is efteemed the beft for planting. Then make a 
trench ten inches deep, in which you fhould place 
the offsets at about four or five inches diftance each 
way, with the bud upward, covering them up with 
the mould that was taken out of the trench : then 
proceed to a fecond trench in like manner, and con- 
tinue the fame till the whole fpot of ground is planted. 
After this, level the furface of the ground even, ob- 
ferving to keep it clear from weeds, until the plants 
are fo far advanced, as to be ftrong enough to over- 
bear and keep them down. With this management 
the roots of the Horfe Radifh will be long and ftrait, 
and free from fmall lateral roots, and the fecond year 
after planting will be fit for ufe. ’Tis true, they 
may be taken up the firft year, but then the roots 
will be but flender ; therefore it is the better way to 
let them remain until the fecond year. The ground 
in which this is planted ought to be very rich, other- 
’vyife the roots will make but a fmall progrefs. 
COCOS. Lin. Gen. Plant. 1223. The Cocoa Nut. 
The Characters are, 
’There are male and female flowers on the fame tree. The 
univerfal fpatha has one valve. The empalement conjifls 
of three fmall-coloured concave leaves the flower has 
three oval fpreading petals , and fix ftamina the length of 
the corolla , terminated by triangular fummits. The ger- 
men is fcarce difcernible , fupporting three fhort ftyles , 
crowned by obfolete ftigma thefe are barren. Thp female 
flowers are included in the like fpatha. The empalement 
is three-leaved, which is coloured and permanent-, they 
have three petals to the flowers, which are larger flkan 
the empalement , and an oval germen without a ftyle, with 
a three-lobed ftigma. The nut is large, triangidar, and 
is perforated fly three holes at the end. 
This genus is placed by Linnaeus in his appendix un- 
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der the title of Monoica Hexandria, the fame plants 
having hermaphrodite and female flowers, the her- 
maphrodite having fix ftamina. 
We know but one Species of this genus, vkn 
Cocos ( Nucifera ) frondibus pinnatis, foliolis enfiformi- 
bus replicatis. Jacq. Hift. 168. Cocoa Nut with 
winged branches , whofe fmall leaves are fword-Jhaped and 
folded. Palma Indica coccifera angulofa. C. B. P. 502. 
This tree is cultivated in both Indies, but is gene- 
rally fuppofed to grow naturally in the Maldives, and 
other defart Hands of the Eaft-Indies. The trees 
grow to a great height in their native places, but their , 
Items are compofed of ftrong fibres like net-work, 
which lie in feveral lamina over each other, out of 
t 1 
which come the branches (or rather leaves,) which 
grow twelve or fourteen feet long. The midrib is 
garnifhed with fword-fhaped fmall leaves, whofe bor- 
ders fold backward : the firft leaves which pulh out 
from the nut when planted, are very different from 
thofe which are afterward produced , for they are 
very broad, and have many folds in each : whereas, 
the after leaves have a ftrong midrib, of great 
length, on which the fmaller lobes are placed alter- 
nately ; thefe lobes are from fix to eight or nine 
inches long, and are almoft triangular, having very 
fharp points, and are very ftiff. The flowers come 
out round the top of the trunk of the tree in large 
clufters •, they are inclofed in a large fpatha or fheath, 
and the nuts afterward are formed in large clufters j 
thefe are included in large net-work covers, which 
adhere clofely about them ; the nut has a hard fhell, 
with three holes at the upper end. The kernel is 
large, fweet, and the lower part of the fhell, when 
firft taken from the tree, is filled with a pale liquor, 
which the inhabitants of the countries where the trees 
grow, call milk, and they are very fond of it. From this 
milk I have been informed by perfons of credit, there 
has been exceeding good arrack diftilled in Jamaica. 
The plants are propagated by planting the nuts in 
fuch places where they are defigned to remain ; for 
the plants will not bear tranfplanting, unlefs it is per- 
formed while they are very young, for their roots 
fhoot deep and wide ; fo that if thefe are cut or 
broken, the plants feldom furvive it, which is gene- 
rally the cafe with moft of the kind of Palms. 
Where any perfons are defirous of having a plant or 
two of this fort, they fhould procure fome frefti nuts 
from the neareft place of their growth, which, on 
their arrival in England, ffiould be buried in a warm 
bed of tanners bark, laying them on one fide, that 
the young fhoot which comes out from one of the three 
holes may not be injured by wet, covering them about 
fix inches deep with the tan. In this fituation, if the 
nuts are good, they will put out fhoots in fix weeks or 
two months, fo fhould be then carefully taken up, and 
each planted in a feparate pot filled with kitchen-gar- 
den earth, and plunged into the tan-bed in the ftove, 
where the plants fhould always remain, for they are 
too tender to thrive in any other fituation ; but as the 
plants advance in their growth, they fhould be fhifted 
into larger pots or tubs, being careful not to cut or 
tear their roots in the operation. 
This is one of the moft ufeful trees to the inhabitants 
of America, who make many neceffary utenfils from 
the feveral parts of it. The outer cover of the nuts 
is made into cordage ; the fhells are converted into 
drinking bowls ; the kernel of the nuts affords them 
a wholefome food, and the milk a cooling liquor. 
The leaves of the tree are ufed for thatching of their 
houfes, and are alfo wrought into bafkets, and many 
other things which are made of Ofiers in Europe. 
COCCOLOBA, Sea-ftde Grape. 4 
The Characters are, 
The empalement is of one leaf, cut into five parts , 
which fpread open and are permanent. The flower has 
no corolla , but hath eight awl-floaped fpreading ftamina , 
terminated by roundifh twin fummits. It has an oval 
three-cornered germen , fupporting three fhort fpread- 
ing ftyles, crowned by fimple ftigmas. The empalement 
afterward becomes a thick berry , inclo fmg an oval- 
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