210 The Natural Liftory of Jamaica. 
Stalk, but beginning very narrow, and augmenting to that breadth : Suc- 
culent, of a deep green colour, {mooth, having notches or incifures into the 
Leaves like thofe of Senecio, or great Daifie. Ex alis foliorum comes the 
Flowers ftandiag on a fhort Foot-Stalk, being {mall, white, and the margin 
very deeply divided into five parts. After which follows a great many very 
{mall brown Seeds, ftanding in an oblong, cylindrical, four cornered, brown 
Cupfula, divided into two parts. Of this there is a variety, being fmalier. 
It grows in the Savanna, and about the Houfes of the Town of Str. Fuge 
de la Vega, very plentifully.. ie 
Why fome give it the name of Thea, I cannot imagine. 
It grows in Greece wild, and is call’d Cufermont by the Zurks. Wheeler 
apud D.Plukenct. Yt is call’d Cabrita by thofe of Curafao, becaufe Goats 
feed on it. zd. . 
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| Crap; XI: 
Of Herbs which are of the Kindred of Umbelliferous Plants. 
Alerianella folio [ubrotundo, flore purpureo, femine oblonzo, frias 
to, afpero. Cat. p.91- Hogweed. , ss hae 
\s JEhe Root is fingle, very ftrong and deep, fending forth 
many Branches, lying along the furface of the Earth, on c- 
, very fide for a Foot or two in Diameter. The Stalks are 
red,round, fucculent, like thofe of Purflane, jointed. ‘ Atevery joint aretwo 
Branches, and Leaves oppofite one to another, fet on one third part of an 
Inch Jong red Foot-Stalks. They are almoft round, three quarters of an 
Inch Diameter, fucculent, green with purple, and now and then curled 
edges, and#{mooth, on the tops of the Branches area great many purple or 
{carlet Flowers, fet clofe by one another in the fame Head, and after them 
fucceed fo many brown, oblong, ftriated, and very rough Seeds. 
It grows in gravelly Low Lands about the Town, and in moft gravelly 
Soils in all the Plantations of the Ifland. 
Hogs: feed on this Herb with much delight : whence ’tis gather’d, and 
brought to them to their Styesto fatten them = 
“> Qt se peter es ere Soe | 
_ Ul. Valerianella alfines folio foandens, floribus pallide’ lateis Pyxidatis in Um- 
belle modum difpofitis, femine afpero Cat. p. 91. An VPalerianella Caraffavica 
femine afpero vifcofo > Herm. par. Bat. prod. p. 382. par. Bat.’ Plukenet. Phyt. 
Tab. 133. Fig. 72 An Pfeudovaleriana Curaffavica femine afpero vifcofo. Bob. 
Hift. Ox. part. 3. p.10§ 2 ag ; 
The lower part of the main Stem of this Plant is as big as ones Arm, 
having a furrowed white Bark. The Stalk takes hold of any Palifadoe or 
Tree it comes near, and branches at the top, it rifing {even or eight 
Foot high. The Branches are many, round, red or green; and ‘brittle, 
hanging downwards: The Leaves come out at the joints, and are in eve; 
thing like thofe of our greater fort of Chickweed. ©’ The tops of the Tiwigs 
fend out feveral Raies or Foot-Stalks, as from their commion Center, like the 
Unibellifere, fuftaining each one {mall, ereenifh yellow Flower, likea {mall 
Cup, being round, undivided, and almoft like ‘Mufcus pyxidatus in: fhape. 
After which comes a finall, long, brown Seed, almot like thofe of fonie 
Ombellifere, growing la fro: esinni -and beings 2 
little rough. § & tatger irom the beginning to the.top,-and being : 
