Hortus americanus: containing an account of the trees, shrubs, and other vegetable productions, of South-America and the West-India Islands, and particularly of the island of Jamaica; interspersed with many curious and useful observations, respecting their uses in medicine, diet, and mechanics / By the late Henry Barham ; to which are added, a Linnaean index, &c. &c. &c.
- Henry Barham
- Date:
- 1794
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hortus americanus: containing an account of the trees, shrubs, and other vegetable productions, of South-America and the West-India Islands, and particularly of the island of Jamaica; interspersed with many curious and useful observations, respecting their uses in medicine, diet, and mechanics / By the late Henry Barham ; to which are added, a Linnaean index, &c. &c. &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![m, >»-■ SOUR-S0P. , This is a very common tree in Jamaica, bearing fruit, in fhape and blgnefs of a bullock’s heart, whicia is very juicy and preafant £0 eab There is a wild fort^ called water-apple. Spanish Arbour-Vine^ Or Spanilh woodbind, which is of the convolvulus tribe. The vines of this plant are fo large and fpread- ing, that they may be carried over an arbour of an hundred yards long, and that ail from one root, which Is as large as Englilh briony. It is milky, as is the Ivvhole plant, and purgeth very ftrongly all watery hu- tnours. I queflion not but a fcammonj may be made from it, Spider-Wort. There is in America a plant, that grows very p]en-» tifully in v/atery places; like to the Englilh phalangimnl or fpider-woit. Thefe fpider-worts are all of the fame virtues, and receive their name from having a peculiar quality to expel the bice or venom of fpiders, which; it is faid, they cure infallibly. Some of them grow like water-plantainfome have a leaf like gentian ^ fome are branchijig and fpreading, others not; fome have deep-purple or bluifh flowers, fome have white flowers, another a reddifli or carnation colour; but mod of them foon fade away aigd fpring again^ and therefore have the name of ephemeras^ Spikenard. In America grows, in great plenty, a mofi; excel- lent fpikenard. Its leaf is in fhape of the bairn, but: iruch bigger, and more like the wild liorfs-mint, with M ' ' a larg®](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29319870_0193.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
