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174 ~The Natural Hiftory of Jamaica. 
X. Prunella flore dilute ceruleo pentapetaloideo, Cat. p. 65. 
This is another fort of Prunella, which is in every thing the fame with 
the former, only not fo high. The Leaves are greener, the Flowers of a pale 
blue colour, monopetalous, the Ove being deeply divided into five Sections, 
or Petala. 
Ir grows in moft Woods of the Ifland. 
XI. Sideritis [picata {crophulari«e folio, flore albo, fpicis brevibus habitiori- 
bus rotundis, pediculis infidentitus. Cat. p. 65. Tab. 109. Fig. 2. Wild-Hops. 
This has {everal {mall, white Roots, which, united, fend upa four {quare, 
purplifh Stalk, rifing three Foot, having at every two Inches diftance Leaves 
oppofite to one another, exactly like thofe of Scrophularia in bignefs, éc. 
Near the top, ex alis foliorum, goes out an Inch long Foot-Stalk, fuftaining 
a Spherical Head, about the bignefS of a Hafel-Nut, made up of a great 
many galeated white Flowers ftanding clofe together, as in the 7rifolinm 
pratenfe purpureum. After thisfollow many fmall, black, fhining Seeds, like 
to the {malleft Gun-powder, contained in a hollow, long, brown Calyx, 
having five prickly Apices on itstop. The whole Plant, when in ftate with 
its Heads, refembles very much a Branch of Hops, whence the name. 
It grows on the Road to Guanaboa by a Gully near the Red Hills, near the 
Church in Gaanaboa, and in feveral other places of this Ifland. 
This Plant is fomewhat anomalous, but this is the beft place I could find 
for it. : 
XII. Lyfmachia caerulea galericulata, foliis anguftis, longis, ferratis, fatidis. 
Cat. p. 66. | 
A lebeat many two Inch long white Roots, take very firm hold of the 
Farth, and raife an hexangular Stafk to one Foot and an half high, having 
here and there Joints and Branches. The Leaves ftand three together, at a 
Joint, are long, narrow, jage’d onthe edges, covered with a white Wooll, or 
Down, and ending in a point from a broader beginning. The Flowers 
come out ex alis foliorum, are blue, {mall, like the other Lyfimachie galericu- 
late, having one Section turn’d up, and three hanging down, to which fol- 
low a great number of {mali, brown, red Seeds. : 
“The whole Plant {mells very ftrong. 
ft grows in claiy low places of the Savanna, near the Town of St. Jago 
de la Vega, and other places where water has ftood in rainy Seafons. 
_ The Leaves of this being ferrated, it cannot be the Scutellaria Firginiana 
hyflopi anguftis foliis, flore céruleo. Plukenct. Alm. p. 338. 
XIN. Scorodonia floribus fpicatis purpuralcentibus pentapetaloideis, (cmine-unico, 
majort, echinato. Cat.p. 66. Tab. 110. Fig. 1 
This has a great many four fquare, hollow Stalks, fometimes green, and 
fometimes purple, having here and there aboutan Inch diftant from one ano- 
ther, at Joints, Leaves {tanding on an half Inch long Foot-Stalks, oppofite to 
one another, being about an Inch long, and half as broad at Bale, purple 
onthe upper fide, green underneath, rough and indented about the edges, 
The top is three or four Inches long, having on ita great many pale purple 
Flowers, ftanding in a green woolly Calyx, the Ore of each being divided 
into five SeCtions,after which follow fo many rough,round Cap/ula’s,brown, 
and inclofing an echinated, round, brown, large Seed. 
It grows onthe rocky, barren, clear'd Wood Lands, about Guanaboa, 
The juice is counted a good vulnerary, healing green Wounds, after 
application giving fome f{marting pains. 
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