260 The Natural Hiftory of Jamaica. 
so 
XIX. Senecio minor, bellidis majoris folio. Cat. p. 125. Tab. 152. Fig. 3. 
This has feveral Inch and an half long, fmooth, fmall, white Roots, no 
bigger than Thread. The Stalk is round, hoary, about five or fix Inches 
high, having fome few Leaves on them, without any order. The Leaves 
have no Foot-Stalks, but {tick to the Stalk with a narrow beginning, and aug- 
mentto their round end, being in all about an Inch long, rough, hoary; 
and of a whitifh green colour, very often having two or three notches 
in them, and like in fhape to the Leaves of the Bellis major caule foliofo, 
C. B. pin. The top of the Stalk and {mall Branches coming out ex afis foljo- 
yum, {upport the Flowers, which are in every thing like thole of Groundfel, 
being made up of many {mall, yellow Flowers, clofe fer together, and en- 
circled by many whitith, long, narrow Leaves. 
Ir grew onthe Banks of the Rio Cobre, under the Town, on the fame fide 
of the River. 
The Figures and Defcriptions of this Plant, and the Senecio trixaginis [pecie 
ac mollitia cauliculis fubrubicundis. Plin. Pluken, sdlm. p. 343. Phyt. Tab. 315. 
Fiz.1. fhew them to be very different, though Dr. Plskenet in his Manri{fa, 
p-170. thinks they may be the fame. 
XXI. Virga aurea major, five herba Doria, folio finuato hirfuto, Cat. p.125. 
7ab.152. Fig. 4. 
This has..a very ftrong, Inch thick, ftriated, green Stalk, as high, or 
higher thanja Man,’ having along the Stalk, feveral Leaves Jarger than thofe 
on its- Branches, which are four Inches long, and one broad in the middle 
where broadeft, rough;-finuated about the edges, and of a dark: green co- 
lour. Towards the top of the Stalk are many Branches and Twigs, every 
one of which fuftains a great. many naked, yellow Flowers, like thofe of 
Facobad. 
It grew on the Road to Mountain River, in. Colonel Cope’s Plantation. 
XXL ZAelichryfum caule alato, floritus {picatis. Cat, p.125. Tab. 1525 Fig. 5. 
This has feveral ftraight Stalks rifing two Foothigh fromthe fame Root. 
The Staiks are round, though the two long, one tenth part of anJnch broad 
Fimirie, belonging to each Leaf, makes it look as if it were four {quare, 
being on every fide of the Stalk, The Leaves are tet. at about an Inches di 
{lance from: one another, on-every fide of the Stalk, having the two Fimbriz, 
or ledges aforefaid under them on each fide. They are three Inches long, and 
not over one quarter of an Inch broad, indented flightly about the edges, of 
a very dark green colourabove,-and woolly or white. underneath, with one 
eminent Nerve running longways. The tops of the Stalks, and the {mall 
Branches near the top coming out ex alis foliorum are Spikes of Flowers 
{tanding fometimes fingly, and fometimes three or four in a Tuft; on the 
very Stalk its felf, without any Petioli, or Foot-Stalks, being naked, the 
outwardmoft Calicular Leaves inclofing the Flowers, and the tops at firft 
coming our being purple. Afterthefe come a great many {mall pappous Seeds, 
as inthe othersof this Kind. 
This grows in the dry Savanmas, near Mr.Batchelors, and_over the Rie 
Cobre by the Angels. 
XXII. Chryfanthemum fruticofum maritimum, foliis glancis oblongis, lore lu- 
teo. Cat. p.125. | 
This Shrub rofe to about four Foot high, having undera whiteilh, fmoorh 
Bark, a, white Wood, being about the. bignefs of ones little. Finger, di- 
vided) into feveral Branches, towards the top fet’ oppofite ro one anothier, 
ye whereon 
