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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![Siegro^yam, whofe fla'lks are prickly, and ar©‘ of tM com^olvulus kind; the root is a foot or more Idng^ browrr on the outfide, and much refembles the com- in^>n briony-root: One fort of a purplifh colour, and feme of thefe roots are as big as the calf of a man’s leg, fome long, fome rounder, and fome flat like a foot, with knobs like toes; the ftalk is of the bignefs of 3'goofe-quill, fquare at each corner, having a thin reddifh extant membrane, making it alated; it will turn and wind round any thing it comes near, rifing nine or ten feet high, and putting forth leaves at every thi*ee inches diflance, fetoppofite to one another, having fodt-flalks two inches long; the leaves are t-Wo inches and an half] ong, and an incli and three quarters broad at the round bale, almoft in the fliape of an heart and pointed, of a vellowirii-grcen colour, having many ribs, taking thdh' beginning froni the foot-ftalk as from a common centre, with tranfvei fe ones between ; ex ali'S foliorurf^ come inch-long firings, with fmall flowers of a yellowifh- green colour, to which follow manv dark-brown feeds of an irregular fhape ; but the feed is never planted, but'by pieces of the root, which we plant about Janu- ary of Fcbruaiy, and they are fit to dig about Chrift- mas! The juice of the leaves is good againfl fcorpions fling; and makeis good fomentations' to cleanfe and heal ulcers. Yellow Mastick. It is a hard yellow woodj like box, as durable,'and' hath alio the fame fort of leaves. End nj. Barham’s Manuscripts. LINN^EAX](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29319870_0228.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
