g 58 “The Natural Hiflory of Jamaica. _ 
part of an Inch long Foot-Stalks, are an Inch and an half long, and about 
half as broad in the middle, where broadeft, being {mooth, and of a dark 
green colour. ‘The tops of the Twigs are branched generally, and carry 
feveral Flowers of a yellow colour, very pleafant, being tubulous and mo- 
nopetalous, the Ore divided into fivé Sections, and this ftanding on tbe 
rudiments of the Fruit, whichaugments into a pyramidal oblong Head, 
covered with fome few {mall Leaves, and is made up of three feveral Cells, 
ineach of which is great plenty of {mall, brown Seed. 
It grew on the Red Hills going to Colonel Cope’s Plantation in Gma- 
naboa. 
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XXII. Rapwnculus aquaticus, folizs Cichorii, flore albo, tubulo longiffiime. Cat.p.58. 
Zab. tot. Fig. 2. 
This had a deep and thick Root, with which it was firmly fix’d in the 
Earth, and from whence rofe a roundifh Stalk about four Inches high, having 
many Leaves, going out alternatively at very fhort intervals, each being 
without any Foot-Stalk, about three Inches long, and three quarters of an 
Inch broad near the further end, where broadeft, and whence they decreafe, 
ending ina blunt point. They are rough, of a whitifh green colour, and 
Jaciniated round their edges, after the manner of Dens Leonis, or Cichory, 
to the Leaves of which they are not unlike. ‘Towards the tops come the 
Flowers, being of a very white or milky colour, and pleafant to look on. 
The Tubulus is the longeft I ever faw, being about three or four Inches long. 
The Ore are divided into five points, and after thefe follows, in {mall Heads, 
much {mall Seed. 
It grows on the moift Banks of the Rio Cobre, above and below the 
Town very plentifully. 
XXII. Rapunculus folio oblongo, ferrato, flore galeato, integro, pallide luteo, 
Cat.p.58. Tab.95. Fig.2. An Rapuntium Americanum Altiffimum, foliiscirfiz, 
flore virefcente. Plum. Tournef. Inff. p.193 ? 
This has a Stalk as big as ones Finger, rifes thee Foot high, being green 
and {mooth, and having very many Leaves fet on it, without any order, 
each of which is ten Inches long, and two broad in the middle of a dark 
green colour, and indented about the edges. At the top are a great many 
Flowers, they are of a pale yellow colour, and galeated, having a long Galea 
turn’d up, and fome Stamina coming out of the middle of the Flower, The 
Seeds were very fimall, and fearce difcernible, brown like thofe of /yo/cya- 
mus, and contained in feveral Cells, in one°@apfula, furrounded with four 
foliola. : 
It grew in the Woods by the Path going to fixteen Mile Walk, and other 
Woods about Guanaboa. 
This is a Rapuntium. 
XXIV. Speculum Veneris majus, impatiens, Cat. p. 59. Tab, 100. Fig. 2. 
This rifes to three or four Foot high, having a {quare jointed, rough, 
and a little hoary Stalk. The Leaves ftand oppofite one to the other, at 
every Inches diftance, on half an Inch long Foot-Stalks, being an Inch 
and an half long, and three quarters of an Inch broad, near the middle, 
where broadeft, hoary, and of abluifh greencolour. Ex alis foliorum come 
out the Branches, two always fet oppofite, on whofe tops fland Flow- 
ers without any Foot-Stalks. They have five capfular, long, green 
Leaves, and a long white tubulus, and on its top an open fine deep blew 
Flower, whofe Ore are deeply divided into five Sections, to which fol- 
lows a quadrangular, three quarters of an Inch long Capfula, epesining 
round, 
