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258 The Natural Hifory of Jamaica. 
This Shrub rifes to four or five Foot high, having a round, whitifh, 
woody Stalk, its Branches come out at top, and are reflected, or bow 
downwards. The Twigs are thick fet with {mall Leaves, coming out alters 
natively on fhort, or no Foot-Stalks, they are fomewhat curled, or uneven 
on their furface like Sage Leaves, an Inch and an half long, and half an 
Inch broad in the middle where broadeft, ending in a point, and being 
whiter on the under fide. Ex alis foliorum come the Flowers, which are of a 
light purple colour, like the others of this Kind, inclofed with fome pale 
brown Leaves. After thefe follow fmall, oblong, white pappous Seeds. 
It grows in the cleard Woodlands at the Crefcent Plantation, and in the 
Caribe Mlands. s 
The bruifed Leaves are good againft Pains and Inflammations of the Eyes. 
The Leaves and pappous Seeds, becaufe of their being Aromatick, are good 
in Baths tocleanfe and fcour. Pifo. 7 
XI. Conyza major odorata, fen bascharis, floribus purpurtis mdis, Cat. p. ta 4. 
Zab. 152. Fig.t. | 
This has a large, woody, fhort Root, having very many fibrils on every 
fide. The Stalk rifesas high as that of Baccharis Mon{pelienfium. Ger. Park. 
being round purple, folid, having Leaves flanding without any order, on an 
Inch long Foot-Stalks, being three Inches long, one broad in the miiddle 
where broadeft, rough, and notch’d about the edges. The Stalks are di- 
vided towards the top iato feveral Branches, cach being fubdivided into fe. 
veral others, on the topsof which are round, purple Heads, of the bignefs 
of thofe of the Baccharis Mon(pelienhum, confifting of an innumerable com- 
pany of dry Pétala,and white Down, almoft like thofe of Gasphaliam America- 
num, after which int fall time follow many {imall, brownifh, cannulated, 
pappous Seeds. > RAE 
The whole Plant is very gratefully odoriferous. : 
It grew by the Sea-fide in the Marifh Grounds by Mr. Delserée’s in Lie 
RUBE. : 
XH Comzsurtica folio. Cat. p. 1244. Tab. 152. Fig. 2. 
This had feveral white, {trong filaments for Roots, with lateral fibers, 
from which went up a {quare, reddifh coloured, woody Stalk, @ Foot and 
an half high, more orlefs. The Leaves, as well as Branches, ftartd oppofite 
tofone another, the firfton three quartets of an Inch: long Foot-Stalks, ‘Being 
about amInch and an half long, and three quarters of an Inch broad in their 
middle where broadeft, hairy, from their Foot-Stalks end inereafing to the 
middle, anid thence-decreafing to a point, being very much ferrared about the 
edges, afid like the Leaves of ‘Nettles. The Flowers arid Séed comé at 
top, the latter being cannulated; fmall, black and pappous;’ inclofed’ with 
an Leaves for their Calyx, fet round them /quammatim, as in others of this 
Kind. i YIDVIEWOTS - 
. It gtows in Famaica and the Caribes. dis V9 IUOY 
XIV. Conyza folio haftato, feu triangulari, ferrato, glabro. Cat. p..24. Tab, 
IGF. Hise 1, Be ome ‘Serecaaiamate “cipstachdiaion 
This Plant has a long, white Root, with feveral lateral fibrils, fending up 
a green, {mooth fourfquare Stalk, one Foot and an half high, bigger than a 
Swans-Quill: At‘an Inch and: an half’s diftance the Bratiches come out fer op- 
pofite one to the otlier, and the Leaves on the Brattches in tke manner, 
ftanding on Inch long Foot-Stalks, ‘being: altttoft triampular, they are ant fitclt 
broad at Bafe, and a little longer from the Foot-Stalks end to the op- 
pofite point, ferrated pretty deép on the edges of a yellowith green — 
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