2 56 The Natural Hiftory of Jamaica. 
Dens Leenis. In the middle of thefe Leaves rife one or more Stalks, they 
are naked, pale green, covered with Wool or Down, a Foot and an half 
high, and the Head has onthe outfide a Calyx, made up of many green 
Leaves, fome purple Petala ftanding round a whitifh hairy Matter, after 
which follows pappous Seeds, ftanding round, ready to fly away when ripe, 
like the Seeds of the common Dens Leonis. 
It grew near Colonel Cope’s Plantation at Gwanatoa. 
The Decoctien is given to Women in Childbed. It diffipates Wind, pro- 
vokes the Catamenia, is good againft Convulfions, takes away Gripes, and 
is aremedy againft all forts of Cold, for it is hot and bitter. Hernand. 
VI. Conyza major inodora, helenii folio integro ficco cr duro, cichorii flore 
albo ¢ ramorum lateritus exennte. Cat. p. 123. Tab. 150. Fig. 3,4. 
This at firft coming up has a great many Leaves, like thofe of the Facobes 
folio integro, five Inches long, and one and an half broad near the end where 
broadeft, beginning very narrow, it continues fo for two Inches of its length, 
and endsinaround point, ‘tis hard, {mooth, of a dark green’ colour, {nipr 
or indented about the Edges. In a while after thefe Leaves rifes a round, 
ftrong, green Stalk, four Foot high, from every joint, at a quarter of an 
Inches interval, goes one of thele Leaves, inclofing the Stalk where it is 
joind to it. It has Branches towards the top, ftanding round at every 
joint, divided into others, which are befet with leffer Leaves. Ex alis foli- 
orum come the Flowers, without any Foot-Stalk, ftanding in feveral green 
Leaves, being a great many white, long, Petala, ftanding round like thofe 
of Cichory. After thefe follow pappous Seeds. 
This is very anomalous, butI think it comes neareft to this place, al- 
though, if 1 rightly remember, ‘tis not milky. 
Ir grew on the other fide of the Rio Cobre, near the Town of St. Jago de 
la Vega, in Guanaboa, near Colonel-Cope’s Houfe-in his Plantation, and in 
the Thickets, near the Monegue Savanna, very plentifully. 
The Stalks and Leaves of this Plant being hard, are made ufe of for 
Brooms to {weep and clean Houfes withal. 
VIN. Conyza inodora, helenii folio, integro, dure, angufto, oblengo, capitulis 
in lateril us ramorum conglomeratis, Cat. p. 123. Tab. 148. Fig. 
This had a large oblong Root, with {ome lateral fibrils, from whence rofe 
a fingle, rourd, {triated, hollow Stalk, about two Foot high, having Leaves 
fet on it alternatively, without any Foot-Stalks; rheit lower part whereby 
they are joined to. the Stalk, having a membrane inclofing it. Thefe Leaves 
are about five Inches long, and half an Inch broad near their top where 
broadeft, from the Foot-Stalk, increafing to near:the top, where they are 
broadeft, ending round, being of a pale green colour, and corrugated on 
theirfurface. Towards the top come the Flowers in a Spike, ftanding with- 
out any Foot-Stalks, being inclofed with a Perianthium, made of fome few 
dry membranes of a brown colour, fometimes one of thefe, and fome- 
times many being conglomerated together. After each of thefe follows {mall, 
brown cannulated Seeds, having much Pappus on it. 
I found it about Mount Diablo very plentifully. 
Any body who compares this Defcription and Figure with thofe of Cory. 
[anthemum Virginianum caule alato ramofius flore minore, Plak. Phyt. Tab. 439. 
Fiz.3. Alm. p. 109. will find them very different from one another, though 
Dr. Plukenct in his Almageft. p. 46, thinks they may be the fame. 
VIII. Conyza 
