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Of Shrubs. P a r t II. 
The Shrub grows wild: Yet the Natives cultivate it in 
Gardens with great Care and Induftry. For with the fcarlet 
Grains abovefaid, they paint and adorn themfelves. The 
Tincture alfo which they extract from them, called OreUa- 
na, they fell to the Portages, and others which Trade with 
them. They likewife beat and make them up into Balls 
(aJ Plfo - and Tablets , which they fend into all parts of Europe. (a) 
The fame Grains are fometimes mixed with Cbacalet , fbr 
WXimines the grateful colour and taft which they give to it. (bj Of 
0 ) Wormius the Barque of the Tree, they make Ropes, (c) 
A fmall Grain, in colour and lhape not much unlike that 
above-faid , and probably belonging to a Species of the 
fame Kind, is brought hither from the Barbados by the 
Name of NOTTA. Yet ufed by Beyers, made up in Cakes, 
for a Limon-colour. With whom, nothing is more ufual, 
than to alter the colours of their Ingredients, by the admix¬ 
ture of Salts, and other ways. 
BEIDEL OSSAR, i. e. The Egg or Cod of the Ojfar, a 
kind of Syriac Bogs-Bane fo called ; Beid, being the Ara- 
ufBdiT 1 ' bk t word ( J ) for an E sg- Accurately defcribed by Honor. 
Bellas. And by Wormius very well figur’d. Yet. Wormius 
in his Defcription, which he borrows of Alpinus, (with his 
Author) miftakes, in giving the Name to the Plant, which 
belongs only to this Egg or Cod. ’Tis foft or skinny, with 
fomeafperity. About four inches long, at the upper end 
fharp, and (now) hooked backward. Filled with a com¬ 
pany of fmall flat Seeds, enclofed in a fine and white 
Borvn. 
This Shrub grows near Alexandria, upon a Branch or 
fe) Wormi- Arm of Nilas (e) called Calig. One Plant, at an Incifion 
of the Barque, will yield no lefs than four pounds of Milk. 
(f) Hon. A Drachm and half of this Milk, (f) will purge a Man to 
Death. But ufed outwardly, is an excellent Remedy for the 
(g) Muf. Itch, ( g ) 
A COD, with the Wooll and Seeds, of the COTTON 
(b) Lacuna. SHRUB; called Pylon Herbaceum. Said (/>) to have grown 
heretofore only in JEgypt ; but now is fown, and grows 
abundantly in Greet, Sicily, and divers other Places in 
t.urope. The Cod is trivalvous, almoll like to that of a 
Tulip, or the Peony. Upon the Seeds which are black Oval, 
and near as big as a Horfe-Bean, hang the greateft part of 
