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the Leaves of which are hairy, longer, and 
narrower than in any other, and Aore divided 
into feveral parts , having fmall Clafpers and 
yellow Flowers: but the Fruit is greater 
than a Musk- Melon, and fomething near the 
talhion of a P ompion, with a fmooth greenilh 
Bark or Rind , which will grow yellowilh in 
Turley Water Melons : or, Citntls . 
time, having fome ribs thereon: The Pulp 
or inward Subtiance is wateridr, in fome fweet, 
in others (a little tart, or acid, but in the 
whole very pleai'ant and deniable to the 
Tafte. The Seed is contained therein , and is 
Cnaller , rounder , blacker , and harder Shell’d, 
than that of the Ground. 
IV. T be fccond , or American , or Caroli- 
nian Water-Melon or Citrul. Its Root is 
like the former -, and the whole Riant varies 
but little from it in its Stalks, Branches, 
Leaves , flowers , and manner of Growing : 
But the chiefeft difference is in the Fruit, 
which is as great as a middle fiz’d Melon 
or Pompion , fome of which are a Foot or 
fixteen Inches long, and thick in proportion 
to that length, having a difcolored Rind, 
variably Ipotted and ltriped with white lpots 
upon the green-, the inner Pulp of which 
in fome is white , in fome reddifh , and in 
fome almoft a purplilh color , very watrifh, 
and of a molt pleafant and delectable Tafte; 
but tho’ it is watrilh, yet it is of firmer 
Sublfance than the former , and will keep 
after it is ripe for fome fmall time. The 
Seed within this is like the other, but longer, 
greater , tedder or biowner , and more fmooth 
or Ihining. 
Citntls: or, Water-Melons American. 
V. The third, or ^Egyptian Citrul or Water- 
Melon. This in its Roots , Stalks , Branches , 
Leaves , and flowers , differs but little from the 
former-, but its fruit is much larger than thofe. 
For fome of thefe arefo great, as Bcl/cntus fays, 
that about fix of them will load's Camel, and one 
or two of them a Man : the outward Rind is 
yellow , the inner Meat or Subftance very little 
and almoft empty, filled in the middle with much 
Water which is very fweet, and much defired 
and drank by the People of the places where this 
Fruit grows ; with which fome mix Damask Rofe 
Water, others Musk and Ambergrife to perfume 
it, and offer it as a great thing, for tile Enter- 
taining of their Friends : The Seed is not in great 
quantity, but fmaller than the Seed of the for- 
mer; in other things there is but little diffe- 
rence. 
VI. The Places. The firft grows throughout 
Turfy , and in all Italy, as alio in Spain, the 
Weft-Indies , and other hot Countries. The fecond 
grows peculiarly, in America or the Weft-lndics , and 
in a very great plenty in Carolina, both North and 
South. And in Virginia , and other places of the 
F loridian Continent. The third is a Native of 
JEgypt , as Profper A/pinus fays in his Book of 
^Egyptian Plants, and Bel/onius in his Obfervations, 
Lib. 2. Chap, yt- 
VII. ’the Times. They all are Planted of the 
Seed in the Spring time, viz. in March and April, 
•and Flower in June and July , and the Fruit is ripe 
in Auguft , or about the lame time in which 
the others.are ripe. 
VIII. The Qualities. The Fruit and Seed, ate 
cold and moift in the lecond Degree : The Seeds 
being reckoned one of the four cold Seeds. They 
are Abllerfive, Diuretick, Nephritick and Arirife- 
britick , even beyond all rhe other forts of Me- 
lons 
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