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whereon grow the Leaves by Tufts, or feveral together, one Tuft being 
fet oppofite to another, and made up of longer and fhorter Leaves, which 
when Jongeft-are about an Inch in length, and one third parc of an Inch 
broad near the end, where they are round and broadeft, having at the end 
athort, {tarce difcernible prickle. They are at their beginning narrow, with- 
out any Foot-Stalks, all covered with a Down, making them look white all 
over, without any incifures on the edges. On the tops of the Branches 
'fland the Flowers in large Heads, on the outfide of which are many whitith 
finail Leaves, inclofing the Flowers, which are many, clofe fet together, of a 
‘yellow colour, having a Cirele of the like colour'd Petala, or Barbuyle ftand- 
ing above them. After thefe follow. many folid Seeds, like the others of 
this Kind. 
I found it growing near St. Chriffopher’s Cave, not far from the old Town 
of Sevilla, on the Rocks by the Scaefide. 
XXIII. Chryfanthemum Salvia folio rugofo, {cabro, oblongo. Cat. p.125. Tab. 
154. Fig. 4. 
The ‘Stalks were jointed, woody, and had Leaves fet on them, which 
were about two Inches long, and more than half as broad, being narrow 
both at-beginning and point, equal on the edges, rough, and bullated, or like 
the Leaves of wild Sage. The Heads were as large as thofe of Chry/anthe- 
raum Segetum, but becaufe the Specimen from which | deferibed ic was imper- 
fet, Ican fay no more of ic. 
_ | found it in one of the Caribes. 
~ XXIV. “Chry[anthemum trifoliatum [candens, flore luteo, femine lonvo, roftrato 
bidente. Cat.p. 125. Tab. 194. Fig. 2,3. An Chryfamhemim Americanum, ci- 
_ceris folio glabro, flore bellidis majoris. Herm. par. Bat. p. t24. 'An Bidens 
trifolia, Americana, leucanthemi flore. Tournefort. Inft. p. 4622 Bellis major 
Americana frute(cens trifoliata glabra. Bob, hift. Ox. part. 3. p.30? 
-. This has a flender Stalk, four or five Foot high, needing the help of 
neighbouring Shrubs or Trees on which it leans, and among which ir al- 
ways grows, being divided into Branches, three or four Inches long, having 
Leaves ftanding on three-quarters of an Inch long common Foot-Stalks, be- 
ing three always together ; that Leaf in the middle, or oppofite to the Foot- 
Stalk, is an Inch long, and half an Inch broad at Bafe, very deeply jagged 
or cut-on the edges, fmooth, of a grafS green colour, and chin, the other 
two Leaves at Bafe are of the fame thape, éc. only fmaller. The Flowers 
are feveral, ftanding on an Inch and an half long Foot-Stalks, coming our 
ex. alis foliorum, each of which has on the outfide feveral green, long Leaves 
on the top of which are five or more yellow, pretty long Petala, witly- 
im which are many Flowers crowded clofe together, as in the others of 
this Kind. After thefe follow feverat half an Inch long, rough Seeds, 
rat two horns ftanding on their ends, in place of the Pappss in other 
eeds. 
Jt grows among the Trees and Shrubs on the Red Hills going to Guana- 
boa, on Mount Diablo, and other the inland woody parts of chis Ifland. 
The colour of the Flowers of this makes it {eem to be different from the 
Chryfanthemum Americanum, ciceris folio, ce. 
XXV. Chryfanthemum cannabinum Americanum alatim, flore aphyllo, globofo, 
auvantio, baccharidis foliis. Breyn. Cat. p.126. Chryfanthemum Americanum canl+ 
alato, flore aphyllo, elobofo, aurantio, foliis baccharidis. Commelin. hort. Am|t. 
parti. p. §. Bidens Indica, FHicracii folio, cavle alato. Tournef. p. Inft. 462. 
yanthemun conyzoides cawle alato CuraSsvicum. Herm. par. Bat. et 
ax Chryfan- 
