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being nervous, having Ribs running through them like thofe of Plan- 
tain. The Flowers come at top of the Branches, are whitifh and naked like 
thofe of Ground{el, and after them follows a {mall, pappous, cannulated; 
brown Seed. ~ 3 : | 
There is a variety of this, having the Leaves as it wete cared at Bate. 
It grew in Colonel Nedham’s Plantation in Sixteen Mile Walk. 
XV. Conyza minor procumbens fatida, flore Inteo, feminibus tomento obduitis. 
Cat. p. 124 Lab.153. Figs 3. ? 
Several Strings, or brown, fmall fibrils, fend forth on all Hands f{quare 
Stalks, of about a Foot in length, at every two orf three Inches of which 
are joints, and from thefe proceed the Branches, Twigs and Leaves. The 
Leaves are hairy all over, without any Foot-Stalks, an Inch long, atid half as 
broad in the middle, where broadeft, {nipt, of indented about the edges, of 
a ycllowifh green colour, and unfavory {mell. The Flowers ftand many to+ 
gether on the tops of the: Branches, ard ex <alis folioram, and are of a 
yellow colour. After thefe follow a great many long, black Seeds, covered 
all over with:a white: Wool. 
{t grows in feveral places where Woods have beets cleat’d in- moft Planta- 
tions of the Ifland. 
XVI. Affer folio oblongo, integro, flore pallide coruleo. Cat. p. £24. 
-, Vhis rifes about a Foot arid am half high, with a reddifli, routid, finooth 
Stalk; having long pointed Leaves, broadeft in the middle, a little whitifh, 
finooth, without: any notches on theedges, The Flowers are many, of a 
very light blue colour, the middle and -Barbsle being both of the fame 
colour.’ Kdid not obferve whether the Seeds were pappous or not; fo know 
not whether it be atrue After or Chryfanthimum afferis facies ©’ - 
ft grows in moift watery places in the Savannas about the Town. 
The Defttiption ofthis fhews it to be very different from the Afer wove 
Belgia latifolins umbellatus floribus dilute vielaceis. Herm. Fort. Leyd. This 
I take notice of, becaule’ Doctor Plukenct in his Mantiff. p.29. thinks they 
may be the fame. | 
XVI: After cansdenfis annuus. nom deftriptus.» Branyer? Hort. Bhef. Cat. 
p24. Conyza acris annna alba hirfata major. Plukem Alm. p. Ut7e 
I found this in feveral places of this Mand, as likewife plentifully in the 
Caribes. 
~ XVIN. Sewecio major florum calyce purpareo. Cat. po 124. : 
This! has feveral white fibrils, going out of every fide of an oblong, 
reddifti Root, from «whence fprings up a: round, green, jaicy Stalk, about 
one Footand an halfltigh Ie has Leaves #tregula ly placd, and thick fet on 
every. fide: without auly Foor-Sralks, about four’ Inches long, and an Inch 
Broad: nae’ the farther “endo where broadeft, beginning narrow, ihcreafing 
to nearctle end, wheitce'it ftraicens; ending if a point, being very much fi- 
nuated, or jagged on the edges like ordinary Ground (el. At the top come 
the Flowers, beiig wavy, naked, of-a yelowith whice colouti ay caly- 
cular Leaves are purple, and cach flands on fometimes # lofiget; and fome- 
ti er Foot-Stalk. a 
ie ireele clear’ Giound it Colonel Nedbam's Plantation’ in fixteen 
d . i } | of « ’ 
needle to mexeo fhe very differen’ fort’ the Senecte vifcofas AE thhopi- 
cas florea parparée. Breyn-cent. As nvay be eafily’ gathered frow? their totes 
and Deferiptions, - De. Pjakiner in: iis Munrife; p. 470% thinks they may beth 
fame. XIX. Senecio 
