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on Richmond -heath , and. in feveral other places. 
That which grows in the Woods has a Root which 
is more hard and woody •, but if it is planted or 
fown in Gardens, in a good Soil, it is more pulpy 
and tender. That from America grows not with us 
but in Manured Grounds } and with us they are all 
planted in Gardens . 
VII. The Times. They all flower in June , July 
and AuguJI , and then the Nuts are dug up and ga- 
thered. 
VIII. The Qualities, Specification , Preparations 
and Virtues , are much the lame with the Earth or 
Ground Nuts in the former Chapter ; fo that we 
(hall not need to fay any more of them in this 
place. 
CHAP. CCXLI. 
Of E D D O of Carolina. 
1 / i ''HE Names. It is called in Greeks ’A eJv 
J- AiyvTtfiov, *5 ■'I'ti'i tbx.0 repaid : in Latin , Aron 
JEgyptium, Ef Pfeudocolocafia , ( for the true Colo- 
cafia is the Fab a JEgyptia Dio/cor idis : ) in Englifh , 
Eddo, Eddo of Carolina , and Carolinian Eddo. 
II. The Kinds. It is certainly of the Family of 
the A.rons or Wake Robins , and is here only a lingu- 
lar Plant. 
III. The Defcription. It ha-t a great and bulbous 
or rather tuberous Root , in fome more round than in 
others , fome of which are Jma! l and long with the 
Roundnejs , as large as the Root of a great Squill* 
or thick , big, round Turnep, having a thin brown ifh 
Skin on the outfide , and white within , cutting very 
firm or f aft, clofer than a heavy clofe Turnep j fome 
of them are reddifh on the outfide , having by Jmall 
Strings many bulbous or tuberous Heads , footing 
jrom all fides thereof, whereby the Root encreafes, 
from whence many Fibres fhoot deep into the Ground. 
from this Root Ihoot forth feveral very large llii- 
Herbal. Lib. I. 
ning green Leaves, almoll of the Shape or Falhion 
of Arum or Wake Robin , pointed at the ends, hut 
much rounder, each of them a foot and half and 
fome of them near two feet long, and a toot, fifteen 
inches, ot foot and half broad, not fo thick and 
happy as Aron Leaves, but thinner and harder, full 
of Veins tunning every way, and refufing Moilture, 
tho’they be laid in Water, Handing every one upon 
a very thick Stalk, about three teet or fomethin^ 
more in height, as I have feen them in America , c-f 
pecially in Carolina ; or about five feet high, asthev 
grow in JEgypt, as Authors relate. This Stalk is 
not fet to or faltned to the Leaf at the very Divifion 
of the Leaf into two parts, as the Arm or Wake 
Robin is, but more towards the middle, lomewhar 
like unto the Water Lillies ; the Divifion of each 
Leaf at bottom, being much rounder than thole of 
the Wake Robin. As this Plant is long, and the 
Leaves thereof very great, without any other main 
Stalk (for a longtime) but only the Stalks of 
Leaves, fo it has been reported to be without Flow- 
er and Seed, but very falfely ; becaufe the Encreafe 
which it ufually has, is by the Fibres, which run 
and fpread themfelves from the Root, or by bits of 
the Root call into holes or hills in mellow Ground . 
they ufually cut one tuberous Root, as big as a large 
Apple, into twenty or thirty pieces, fo as every 
piece may have a fmall quantity of the outfide Skin 
upon it ; thefe being planted in thole made or pre- 
pared holes, in Artificial Hillocks of moift fat Earth 
m the Spring time, will all for the moll part of 
them grow, fo that a Crop of the Roots may be 
gathered in July and Auguji following ; which is 
the Reafon that never any Stalk of Flowers, Fruit 
or Seed are feen upon them. But if theie great 
Roots are fuffered to continue for many Years in a 
place, ( fo as they may be defended and preferved 
from the Frolt) you will find, that bwween thefe 
very tall Stalks of Leaves that there will rife up one 
Stalk, and fometimes tw.o or three, according to 
the Years of the Age and Strength of the Plant ; 
which length of time helps to the fructifying there- 
of, for otherwife it would not bear any lhew of 
Hofe, or Pellel, or Flower, as I my felf, who have 
planted them, have manifeltly feen. Each of thefe 
Stalks are much Ihorter than thofe of the Leaves, at 
the tops of which they bear a long open Husk ; in 
the midlt of which riles up for the moll part three 
feveral narrow Husks or Hofes, ( never one alone, 
as the Arum or Arifarum do) with every one their 
Pellel or Clapper in the middle of them, which is 
fmall, whitilh, and about fix or feven inches long •, 
from the middle downwards it is bigger, and let 
round about with fmall whitilh Flowers, fmellin" 
very fweet, the lowermolt firit flowering, and lo 
by degrees upwards, which lall not above three days, 
and from the middle upward bare or naked, ending 
in a fmall long point. After the Flowers are all 
pad, the lower part abides, and bears many Berries, 
like as Arum or Arifarum do, but much paler and 
fmaller. 
IV. The Places. It grows plentifully in uPgyft, 
being planted there for their only Ufe in 'Meats, and 
for Food, which they feldom take without it. It 
grows naturally in Candia , as Bellonius lays ; and 
in Portugal , as Clufms reports. It grows alfo in 
Italy in many places, and in the Country of Sa/en. e 
in the Kingdom of Naples, as Columna relates. It 
grows alfo in the Blands of Java and Surrat, wht- ■ 
they ufe it as familiarly as they do in TFgyfr. as the 
Dutch have declared in their Navigation thither 
Anno 159;. It is alio found in feveral places of 
Africa , and in divers other places, which 1 heot-h-,.- 
Jlus remembred. Some will not have it called 
rum JEgyptium, becaufe Pur late Travellers lay, that 
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