Part II. 
Of Fruits, 
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better than Earth or Wood, as being both light, and not 
brittle. The little bitter Gourd, being eaten, workcth by 
Vomit and Stool. The Water diftill’d from unripe Gourds , 
applied with Linnen, is moil fticcefslul, and a great Expe¬ 
riment again!! that Heat, called Syriafis, (a) efpecially in o) Bauh-iib. 
Infants. i<? ' c - , -p 2i 7 
A FRUIT in fhape fomewhat like a WILD CUCU- 
MER; yet not, as that, hairy, but frnooth. The Seeds 
alfo of both arc in figure, colour, and tail, altogether alike. 
So that perhaps it may not be improperly called Cucumvs 
Sylvefmglaber. 
A FRLTT, fuppofed by Clufim, if) to be that of the (E)Exot.lib. 
EGYPTIAN-BEAN of Diofcorides , a Water-Plant. Tis z,c-13 ; 
of a brown Bay, and of a foftifh and light fubftance 5 
the top, which is broadeft, above three inches over,and flat 5 
divided into about twenty round and open Cells, almofl 
like an Honey-Comb. In each Cell is contained a Bean or 
Nut, alike colour’d, of an Oval fhape, as big as a fmall 
Akom, and in the fame manner pointed at the top. See 
alfo the Figure in Bauh. 
A Bender COD of GUINY-PEPPER. Capful Siliqua 
angufta. Pifo (c) deferibes and figures nine or ten forts, all (c >'• 4 
growing in Brafile, and there called Quiya 5 of which this c ' 5 ‘‘ 
is the longeft and moll Bender. ’Tis ufed as a great Sto- 
machick Medicine, and in Sauces, both in fubftance and 
infufion, in America, Spain, and other Countries, and by 
many prefer’d before the beft Pepper. 
The COD of the Broad Leav’d DOGSBANE. Siliqua 
Apocyni latifolij. Given by George Wheeler Efq$. Defcribed 
and figur’d in Bauhinus: (d) but with the Cods lhorter and 00 L. 15. 
thicker than their natural fhape. Of kin to that which c ' ,5 ' F * I3> 
Lobelias calls the Scammony of Montpelier. Along the 
middle or centre of the Cod, runs a Bender fibrous pillar, 
to which, and not to the fides of the Cod, the Seeds are 
faften’d on both fides it 5 and fo encompafled about with 
Down, wherewith the Cod is fill’d up. A provident fore- 
caft of Nature to keep them warm. The faid Down con- 
fifteth not of fingle Hairs, but Plumes, affixed to the Seeds, 
wherewith they are winged for their being more difperfed- 
ly wafted by the Aer, and prevent their falling in a ruck on 
the ground. 
The 
