Catesby, Mark. Vol.II, Tab. 49, The little brown Bead Snake

Mark Catesby The little brown Bead Snake, Vol.II, Tab. 49 Etching with hand color 19" x 14" sheet From Volume II, Part 8 of Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida & the Bahama Islands London: 1737 - 1771 Currently known as the Dekay's brownsnake,Storeria dekayi and , cardinal-spear or coral bean, Erythrina herbacea*, Catesby described these subjects as follows: ANGUIS MINOR FUSCUS MACULATUS. The little brown Bead Snake. These are always small, seldom appear above Ground, but are dug up and found twisting about the Roots of Shrubs and other Plants. All the Back and upper Part of the Body, have transverse Spots of brown and white, so disposed, as to make some Resemblance of a String of Beads, which seems to have given its English Name. It is an harmless Snake. Corallodendron humile, spica florum longissima coccinea, radice crassissimo. This Shrub rises from the Ground with many straight, taper, pithy Stalks, to the Height of five or six Feet; the upper Part of which, for abo