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toprick. ‘The Leaves come out alternatim, being about an Inch long, and 
one fifth part of an Inch broad in the middle where broadeft, and whence 
they decreafe to both extreams, being fomewhat hairy, of a dirty brown 
colour, and finuated about tae edges. Ex alis foliorum, and at the tops come 
the Flowers cach ftanding on an half Inch long Foot-Stalk, being yellow 
and after this foilows a Secd-Veflel, or Head made after the fame manner, 
and containing Seeds as the former. 
It gtew in the Savansa about the Town, with the former. 
si Anagallis ceruica, portulace aquatice caule cy foliis. Cat. p. 87. Tab.129. 
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This {mall repent Plant, has round, fmooth, green, juicy Stalks, which at 
joints {trikes into the Earth, {mall, white, hairy fibers, whereby it draws its 
Nourifhment, and likewife fmall, green, fucculent Leaves, almoft like thofe 
of the Portulaca aquatica, being roundith, thick, grecn, {mooth, and very 
fimall, without Foot-Stalks, ftanding oppofite toone another. Towards the 
ends of its {mall Twigs, ex alis foliorum, come outhalf an Inch long Foot- 
Stalks, and on them in a Calyx, confifting of two green Leaves, a pentape- 
talous Flower, of a pale blue colour, having fome whitilh Stamina within. 
After this follows a grcat number of very {mall, flat, brown Seeds, inclofed in 
ahard, brown Cupfula, covered by fome firft green, afterwards brown Leaves, 
which were the Perianthinm or Calyx of the Flowcr. 
It grew on the Sea Marfhes near the landing place at Delacrees in 
Lizuanee. 
V. Alfine Americana nummulariea foliis. Herm. parad. Bat. prod. p. 306. par. 
Bat.p.t1-, Cat. p. 87. 
This fort of Chickweed had feveral very fmall, white Strings for its Roor, 
from whence, on every hand, went feveral round, {mall Stalks, a Foot long, 
lying on the furface of the Earth. They were green, and upon ftretching, 
like other Alfine’s, the Bark breaks, the inward part of the Stalk holding. 
At more than an Inches intervals diftance come the Leaves. They are twos 
one oppofite to another, ftanding on fhort Foot-Stalks, are almoft quite 
round, having Nerves, like Plantain, running from the Foot-Stalks end 
through the Leaf, each of which is of about one third part of an Inch’s 
Diameter. The Flowers come out ex alis foliorum, feveral together ftand- 
ing on an Inch long Foot-Stalk. They are made up of many white, long 
Petala, as the other Alfine’s, to which follows feveral fmall Seeds, like thofe 
of other Chickweeds. 
_ Ie grew on the low, moift Banks of Rio Cobre, below the Town of St.Fago 
dela Vega, and feveral fuch moift thady places, in and towards fixteen Mile 
Walk, very plentifully. 
VI. Alfini afinis foliis bellidis minoris, caule nudo. Cat. p. 87. Tab. 129; 
Fig..2. 
2 “This had a crooked, white Root, with many Hairs to draw its Nourifh- 
ment, about an Inch long. The Leaves lay on the furface of the Earth, 
{pread round the Root, being about an Inch long from a narrow beginning, 
increafing by degrees to its round end, and very like the Leaves of the 
lefler Dafie,-only not fo thick nor fucculent, and of a darker green colour. 
From the middie of thefe Leaves rifes a four or five Inches long Stalk or 
two, without any. Leaves, being branched towards the top, which Branches 
are divided into {mall Twigs, each whereof fuftains a {mall Head, inclofed 
by four whitifh capfular Leaves, there being within them a round, whitith, 
thin Seed-Vefiel, full of roundith black Seeds, very fmall, I never found ic 
in Flower. It 
