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It grows on the fandy, falc, marifh Grounds at Paffage Fort in the very 
Town, and in other fuck places in this Ifland. 
It is pickled and candied in Barbados.¢ 
XL. Herniaria lucida aquatica. Cat. p.50. Tab.93. Fig: 2. | 
The Roots of this are many, {mall and hairy. The Stalk is greeri, rourid, 
erect, lucid, or almoft tranfparent, about a Foot high, having on each fide 
alternatively a {mall Branch, and oppofite to ita tuft of Leaves, and outof 
the Branches after the fame manner come Twigs, having very {mall, green, 
lucid Leaves, like thofe of Pelygonum, -only {maller in every part, very thick 
fet, one againft another. The Flowers come out ex corum ala, on very {mall 
Petioli, either reddifh, or green, which looked on by the Eye, arm’d witha 
Microfcope, appear Tetrapetalous. The Seed follows as {mail as duft. 
The whole Plant is adftringent to the tatt. 
It grows onthe Banks of moft Rivers, and on the wet fides of Rocks. 
XLI. Corchoro afinis, chamedryos folio, flore ftaminzo, feminibus atris qaas 
drangulis duplici ferie difpofitis. Cat. p.'50. Tab. 94. Figs 1s Ap Corchorus 
Americanus minor carpini folio filiqua anguffjfima ex lateribus ramulorum proves 
niente. Br. pr. 2. p. 36? ; 
This has avery deep blackifh coloured Root, which fends up a round; 
brownith, woody Stem, rifing three or four foot high, being divided into 
Branches onevery Hand. The Leaves come out feveral rogether, fome greater, 
fome fmaller, at half an Inches diftance, on half an Inch long Foot-Stalks. 
They are half an Inch long, and a quarter broad, at Bafe where broadeft; 
of a grafs green colour, indented about the edges, and tmooth, Oppofite 
to the Leaves comes yellow Flowers, being tamincous, after: which follows 
a two Inch long, dark brown Pod, or Seed-Veilel, fomething like thafe of 
the Sefamum, only having tworound fides, iniicad of four, five, or fix; in each 
of which two rows, are contained, a great many black, quadrangular, ‘{imall 
Seeds, the rows or fides being {eparated from one another by a Membrane, 
dividing them. The Pod when ripe opens at the end,- and: {catters the Seed. 
It grew ona rocky Hill, on which Colonel Fu//er’s Houle was built, and 
in feveral rocky grounds near Guanaboa. is 
ALI. Aparine paucioribus foliis femine levi. Cat. p. 50. Tab.o4. Fig.2: 
The Root is jointed, having at every joint feveral hairy fibers ftriking 
themfelves into the Earth, fending up a jointed, greenith {quare Staik, foug 
or five Foot high, ftriated, a little rough and hollow, flender, and needing 
the {upport of neighbouring Plants. At the joints which are always protus 
berant and reddith, {tand the Leaves oppofite one to the other, on an half 
Inch long Foot-Stalks, being an Inch and a quarter long, and half an-Inch 
broad in the middle where broadeft, of a pale green colour, -a little rough. 
The Flowers come out ex alis foliorum, are pale green, Mufcofe, or made 
like Fuli, each of which is a quarter of an Inch long. . After thefe follow 
feveral brown Seed-Veflels difpofed Verticillatim, two being always joined 
together, each being round on one fide, or Semicircular, and flat onthe other, 
ne both make a Globe, each half containing one black Seed, of the fame 
ape. 
? < fm plentifully amongft the Woods going from Town to Gwana- 
04, CFC. 
Pp Cary 
