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Perficaria procumbens longiffima, anguftifolia, non maculofa, [pica lonziori, laxi- 
ori & graciliori. Cat. pl. Fam. p. 48. 7 
The Root of this Plant has feveral Protuberancies here and there, as alfo 
great numbers of redifh Brown Strings or Filaments {cattered up and down Tab. 3.Fig. 1, 
in the muddy ground. The Stalks are {pread round, traili 
of ' , they are round, redifh, {mooth, 
jointed at every Inches interval , having a {welling 
near the top one Leaf, exaétly like that of the ordin 
having two prickly 
ends, very like to the Perficaria pufilla repens. Ger. emac. only the Stalks are 
much longer. 
It grows in the Ifland of Madera, in a Rivers Bank, half a Mile beyond the 
Town of Funchal towards the Mountain, and in Jamaica onthe moift muddy 
low Banks of the Rio Cobre, cc. very Copioufly. 
Blitum vulgare minus furrectum. Munt. Pe. cult. p.291. An Blitam Vircinia- 
num Polypermon erecum viride D. Sherard, Plukenct. Alm, p: 682 
The other Syzonyma of this Plant, and of the reft hereafter mention’d may 
be feén in my Catalogue of Famaica Plants. 
I found it in the Madera Mand near the Town of Funchal, and it differed Tab.3.Fig 2. 
in nothing from the ordinary wild {mall white Blite, only it feemed to be 
more erect. 
Pfyllinm majus erectum, C.B. J.B. Raii Fiift. p. 881. 
Convolvulus althee foliis Cluf. rar. pl. hift. lib.4. p. 49. | 
1 found this plentifully in Afadera Mand near the Town of Funchal. 
It is good to cure Wounds, Clu/. 
Salvia major, folio glauco, ferrato. Cat pl. Fam. p. 64. | rae 
This hath fquare whitifh or glaucous Stalks, rifing two or three Foot Tab. 3. Fig.3s 
high, having two Leaves ftanding oppofite to one another ; on Inch Foot- 
ftalks, being two Inches long, and one broad near the Bafe where broadett, 
being cut in very deep on the edges, of a dirty green colour on the upperfide, 
and very white underneath, having one middle, and feveral tran{verle Ribs. 
It grew near Funchal in the Mland Afadera, where | gather'd it without 
‘Flowers or Seed, fo that Iam not able to determine its Family ; perhaps it 
may be a Marrubium nigrum, or of {ome other kind. 
Lforminum luteum glutinofum, C.B. Raii Fliff. p. 5.47. Colus Fovis Ger. p. 769. 
Origanum picis latioribus. Cat. pl. Jam. p65. An origanum Maderenfe nos 
ftrati fimile odoratins capitulis albicantibus Pluken. Alm. p. 273.2. 
I found this wild in Adadera Wand ; it has very broad Spikes in which it 
feems chiefly to differ from Oviganum vulgare. 
Fledera terreftris. Cafalp. p. 453. 
I found this in the Ifland Afadera near the Town of Fuachal. 
They ufe to Boil it in their Flefh Broths in Germany, Cord. 
Trifolium bitumino{um feu trifolinm ceruleum aut violacenm bitumen redolens. 
Morif. iff. pl.part.r. p. 136. : 
I found it in the Ifland Madera, The Seed from /taly, in Germany produces 
one with the fmell and taft, but the Seed of the German Sown has neither taft 
nor {mell, C. B. 
Fumaria quinta few lutea, C. B. pin. p. 1.433 
Geniftella tincforia Ger. p. 1316. 
Scorpioides bupleuri folio, C.B, Raii p. 031, 
Cicer fatiuum, C. Be Raii Lift. p. 917. 
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