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vanelloe, French willow, euphorbia, and crane’s-bill: alfo 1777. 
cudweed, rufhes, bull-rulhes, flax, all-heal, American , Fcb ^ uar>f v 
nightfhade, knot-grafs, brambles, eye-bright, and ground- 
fel; but the fpecies of each are different from any we have 
in Europe. There is alfo polypody, fpleenwort, and about 
twenty other different fort of ferns, entirely peculiar to the 
place ; with feveral forts of moffes, either rare, or produced 
only here; befides a great number of other plants, whofe 
ufes are not yet known, and fubjedts fit only for botanical 
books. 
Of thefe, however, there is one which deferves particu¬ 
lar notice here, as the natives make their garments of it, 
and it produces a fine filky flax, fuperior in appearance to 
any thing w'e have ; and probably, at leaft, as ftrong. It 
grows every where near the fea, and in fome places a 
confiderable way up the hills, in bunches or tufts, with 
fedge-like leaves, bearing, on a long ftalk, yellowifh 
flowers, which are fucceeded by a long roundifh pod, fill¬ 
ed with very thin fhining black feeds. A fpecies of long 
pepper is found in great plenty; but it has little of the 
aromatic flavour that makes fpices valuable; and a tree 
much like a palm at a diftance, is pretty frequent in the 
woods, though the deceit appears as you come near it. It 
is remarkable that, as the greateft part of the trees and 
plants had, at this time, loft their flowers, we perceived 
they were generally of the berry-bearing kind ; of which, 
and other feeds, I brought away about thirty different forts. 
Of thefe, one in particular, which bears a red berry, is 
much like the fupple-jack, and grows about the trees, 
ftretching from one to another, in fuch a manner as to ren¬ 
der the woods almoft wholly impaflable. 
The birds, of which there is a tolerable flock, as well as 
the 
