The Nut Is Smaller Than Those From Portugal,
But Sweeter.
{Oak-Vine.}
This is no Tree, but call'd the Oak-Vine, by reason it bears a sort of Bur
as the Oak does, and generally runs up those Trees.
It's so porous,
that you suck Liquors thro' a Length of two Foot.
Prickly-Ash grows up like a Pole; of which the Indians and English
make Poles to set their Canoes along in Shoal-Water. It's very light,
and full of Thorns or Prickles, bearing Berries in large Clusters,
of a purple Colour, not much unlike the Alder. The Root of this Tree
is Cathartick and Emetick, used in Cachexies.
{Poison Vine.}
The Poison Vine is so called, because it colours the Hands of those
who handle it. What the Effects of it may be, I cannot relate;
neither do I believe, that any has made an Experiment thereof.
The Juice of this will stain Linnen, never to wash out. It marks
a blackish blue Colour, which is done only by breaking a bit of the Vine off,
and writing what you please therewith. I have thought,
that the East-India Natives set their Colours, by some such Means,
into their finest Callicoes. It runs up any Tree it meets withal,
and clasps round about it. The Leaves are like Hemlock,
and fall off in Winter.
{Canes and Reeds.}
Of Canes and Reeds we have many sorts. The hollow Reed, or Cane,
such as Angling-Rods are made of, and Weavers use, we have great Plenty of,
though none to the Northward of James-River in Virginia.
They always grow in Branches and low Ground.
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