1. Papaya major. They are called trees because they grow as high, but are of no durable substance, and so soft that one stroke of an axe will cut through them. The flowers are of a yellow colour, and adhere close to the body, having no foot-stalk; then the fruit comes, upon a short foot-stalk, growing in clusters, of a verdant green without-side, but, when full ripe, they turn yellow, and reddish on that side next the sun; it hath a great number of round soft blackish seeds, about the bigness of a pepper-corn, lying in a soft pappy substance. The outside peel, cut thin, makes fine green tarts; the inward part makes sauce for pork, so resembling in colour and taste apple-sauce, as not to be known to the contrary; it is also used for goose or duck. When it is thoroughly ripe, it may be eaten raw, having a pleasant juicy flavour, like some apples. All these trees are very milky; for if you pull off a leaf, there effuse several drops of white milk, and the same when you pull off the fruit. Its milk takes away warts (being very sharp and corrosive), kills ring-worms, and takes off films on the eyes.
2. Spreads itself in flowers, and it is very rare to see any fruit upon them, and those small and long. The flowers are preserved with sugar, and make a fine sweetmeat.
3. Is the female wild papaw, which is every way like the other female, but only its fruit is much smaller and rounder, and when ripe is food for birds. They grow wild in the woods.
4. The male wild papaw, which grows like the former.