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XI. Gramen echinatum maximum {pica rubravel alba. Cat.p. 30. An Gramen 
tribuloides [picatum maximum Virginianum D. Doody. Ejufd. Almag. p.177? 
<n Gramen marinum echinatum. D.Spragg. Rait hiff. p. 1928 
This Grafs has feveral two or three Inch long thready Roots, fending out 
feveral In.h and an half long gra{lie Leaves, of a yellowilh green colour, from 
the middle of which rife up feveral fix Inches long Stalks or culmi, being 
jointed ; the Joints are three quarters of an Inch dittant one from the other 
at which are now and then Branches which are crooked, having Leaves, and 7 
the top an Inch and a half long Spike, of little Burs, or large roundith prickly 
Seeds, fometimes of a reddith, and fometimes of a green colour. The Prickles 
being long, ftrong, and fharp, ftanding on rida fide, having within them 
fome oblong, large, flat whitith Seeds. Of this chere are of various bigneffes. 
From the Roots go fometimes reddifh, jointed Branches, on which at 
the Joints grow tufts of {maller Leaves, very thick {et alternatively making 
this part of the Grafs creeping, have a different Face from the other erect. 
I{uppofed this to have given occafion to Dr. Péwkenct to mention and grave 
it twice, as I have taken notice in my Catalogue p. 30. So that for ought 
1 know thefe Graffes may be the fame, notwithftanding what is {aid by the 
Doctor in his Mantiff. p. 96. 
This is not properly an aculeated GrafS, becaufe the Leaves are no 
wtriculus, noc aculeated as thar of /taly, but ic has echinated Burs, as the 
echinatum, with feveral Seeds in them. 
It grows in all Plantations at all times, when there are Rains, as well in 
Famaica as the Caribbees. 
It is very troublefome to Travellers on Foot, thefe fmall Burrs or echi- 
nated Seeds, fticking clofe to their Garments, ¢fpecially their Stockings, and 
pricking their Legs. 
XII. Gramen maritimum echinatum procumbens tulmo longiori & {picis ftrigo- 
froritus. Cat. p. 30. Tab. 65. Fig. 1. 
This had a fibrous Root, fending out many trailing, round, yellowith, 
crooked jointed Culmi, or Stalks, about a Foot and a half long, the Joints 
being an Ingh and an half diftant one from the other, at cach of which is a 
Leaf inclofing the isternodiam to the next Joint, as with a Sheath, being two 
or three Inches long ; likewife green colour'd, harfh, fomething like the Cy- 
perus Graffes. At the top ftandsan Inch and an half long Spike, fet round ata 
fhort interval from one another, with leffer {mall Burs, or roundifh echinated 
Seeds, having on every fide of them feveral firong, tharp Pricles, being 
firft green, then of a Straw colour. 
It grew ona fmall Ifland, called Gus Cayos, off of Port-Royal Harbour. 
The largenefs of the former feems to make it rathet be the Gramen tritu- 
loides [picatum maximum Virginianum, D. Doody, than this here defcribed, not- 
withftanding what Dr. Plukenet faysin his Maatiff. p. 96. 
XII. Arunde faccharifera, CB. Cat. p. 31. Tab.66. de Bonten. p.82. de Biet, 
Pp. 336. de Marini, p.58. de Feynes, p. 160. & 166, de Rochef. Tall. p. 58- 
Canna, Saccharina de Nienhcf. p.89. Azucar de Efquemeling, p. 58. Fare 
de Flacourt, p. 120. 
This has a jointed Root with many Fibers, as other Recds, fending up an 
ufually eight or nine Foot long jointed folid Calamus, Culmus, or Stalk as big as 
ones Thumb, or fometimes Wrift, according to the Ground in which it grows's 
the Joints are fometimes farther diftant from, and fometimes nearer one ane- 
ther, gencrally abour four Inches long: the outfide of the Calamus is of a 
yellowifh green colour, fmooth, fhining, and within is a white Fungous, Sn 
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