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{mall, tetrapetalous, of a pale green colour, with one black {pot in the 
giisie I could never find any Seed, though feveral times I examined the 
ant. 
It grows every where inthe Town Savavna, amongft the Shrubs. 
The Leaf either applied whole, or bruifed, to a wounded place, cures it 
very effectually, 
it isia pos Remedy again{t poifoned bites, the Leaves being bruifed 
and applied. he Root is excellent againft the Stone. Marcgr. Pif, 
XXIV. Lyftmachia lutea non pappofa erecta major, foliis hirfutis, frac CAryo 
phylloide. Cat. p.85. Tab, 127. Fig. 3. 
The Stalk is ufually brown, ftrong, four. or five Foot high, and has {e- 
veral hairy, red, angular Branches, on every hand very thick befer with long, 
narrow, hairy nervous Leaves, feveral of which come out together, fome 
larger, fome fmaller. The larger are three Inches long, and f{carce one 
broad, in the middle where broadeft, of a light green colour, downy and 
foft like Velyet. The Flowers come out ex alis foliorwm, are large, yellow, 
ftanding onan half Inch long Foot-Stalk, pentapetalous, very open, or fpread 
with yellow Stamina, having under them four or five green, {mall Leaves, 
Mlanding on an oblong, large, four or five {quare Capfala, or Seed-Veffel fet 
on to - Stalk by .an eight part of an Inch long Foot-Stalk, and contain- 
ing in {everal Cells very much finall, yellowifh Seed, when full ripe. 
The Defcriptions and Figures of this and the Lyfimachia cornicula’a mari- 
tima finuatis, cy pubefcentiius foliis Virginiava, Plukenct. Alm. p. r35. & 
Phyt. Tab. 203. Fige 3. fhew thefe Plants to be very different one from the 
other. This 1 take notice of, becanfe Dr. Plukemct in his Mantiffa, p. 123. 
doubts if it be not the fame | 
Tr grows every where on the wet or low Banks of the Rio Cobre, and in 
other wet places of the Ifland, oe 
XXV. akenasine lutea non pappofa erecta minor, flore lutco pewtapetalo, fratin 
caryophylloide. Cat, p85, Lab. 128. Fig, 2, 3. 
This rifes abouc ten Inches high, from {mall, fibers it fends.out from ics 
joints, into the neigbbonsing mud, thereby drawing its Nourifhment. is 
Stalk is green, round, fucculent, fmooth and brittle, on which are plac’d by 
“a quarter of an Inch long red Foot-Stalks, feveral Inch long Leaves, half as 
broad in the middle where broadeft, fmoorh and fhining. Ex alis foliorum 
~ come the Flowers. They are pentapetalous, very large, yellow, and making 
a fine fhow. The Seed [ did nor obferve, though by its Stalks and,Flower 
it fhould be of kin to, if not a Purflane. 
It grows in Marfhy places near Black River Bridge, dc. where water ftands 
fhallow moft part of the year, among the Mud, into. which it {trikes its fi- 
brous Roots. ! | “di ee aan 
XXXVI. Cofcuta inter majorem G mninorem media, filamentis longis a fortibus 
latiffime fae arbores velcampos fe.extendens, Cat p85. ab. 12. Fig, 4s 
is has very long, and ftrong. filaments, by. which it {tretches ics {elf 
over very large Trees, and whole Fields.and Paftures, cifing no higher chan 
the Plants on which it feeds. The Flowers are white, and conglomerated on 
one fide of the Stalk, as the others of this Kind are. The Filaments are 
Jarger than thofe of the Cufcuta minor five epithymum, C,B, Pin. and lefler 
than thofe of the Cafcura major. C.B, Pin. : 
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