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descending 1/2 inch long — The stalk
of ye size of a straw of flax, 12 or 18
inch high, round smooth hard, having
a very fine soft woolly substance thinly
adhere scattered & lightly adhering
to it.

Leaves — no radical leaves, & ye stalk
rises [bare?] some distance, where
then stands from 5 to 10 beautiful
oblong, doubly acuminated Leaves 2 or 4, nervose —
ribs with many small anatomizing
small veins runing from rib to rib.
The leaves have no pedicles, & stand
in a stellate, form — & spreading —
At ye top is a nother similar set of similar
stellate leaves, but less in No. & of
unequal size. Some times there
are to set of stellal leaves below
ye top — From ye ala of ye
top leaves rises 5 or 6 flowers short
on short pedicles which are reflected
dowwards between ye leaves on which
are ye flowers hanging dowards
under ye leaves with their disks
nearly perpendicular — The flowers
very small —

The plant hath its name
from ye root, which some wt tast
of a Cucumber & is very agreeable.