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262 The Natural Hiflory of Jamaica. : 
Chryfanthemum Curaffavicum alato cante, fore aurantiaco bullato. Bob, bift. Ox. 
6, 30- Pe 25. 
res has ‘ large Root with many ,white ftrings flrongly fixed in the Earth, | 
from which rife feveral Stalks a Foot high, having a green Selvedge, or be- 
ingalated. The Leaves grow along the Stalk, are rough, indented like thofe 
of Cichory, or Facea, growing larger towards their top, and ending ina point 
about an Inch and an half long, and half an Inch broad near the end where 
broadeft, of a dark green colour. The Flowers come many together in 
Heads like thofe of the others of this Kind, they are of a deep yellow, or 
Orange colour, After thefe follow broad Seeds, fomething like thofe of 
Parfnips, black in the middle, white about their edges, and having two 
prickles or horns on their ends. a. 
It grows near the Bridge over Black River in St. Derothies Parith. 
XXVI. Chryfanthemum Conyzoides nodiflorum, femine roftrato bidente. Cat. 
p.126. Zab. 154. Fig. 4. 
This had a round brownifh Stalk, about a Foot long, which was jointed at 
every two or three Inches, and at the joints had Leaves, fet oppofite to one 
another, f{tanding on very fhort, if any Foot-Stalks. The Leaves were a- 
bout an Inch and an half long, and half as broad in the middle where 
broadeft, beginning narrow, increafing to the middle, and thence decreafing, 
and ending ina point, being hairy on their upper fide, having many appear- 
ing Nerves, and being of a dark green colour. x alis foliorum come the 
Branches, fet oppofite to one another, and the, Flowers, which ‘are {mall 
Heads, without any Foot-Stalks, being one or more ftanding together, cach 
being furrounded by a few dry, brown Membranes. After fome time fol- 
lows the Seed, which is fmall, gray oblong, having two horns, ftanding out 
as others of this Kind, which are Bidentia. | 
It grewin the inland part of this Ifland, and in Barbados. 
XXVIL. Chryfanthemum paluftre, repens, minus, odoratum, folio {cabro trilo- 
bato. Cat. p.126. Tab.155. Fig. t. | 
The Stalk is jointed, creeping along the furface of the Earth, every joint 
fending into the Earth many hairy fibers and ftrings of a blackifh brown 
colour, and Leaves oppofite to one another. ‘They are very like the Leaves 
of Caryophyllata, only very rough, having {everal points or notches, and: be- 
ing very atomatically {weet {melled. At, or towards the tops.ex alis foliorum 
go out fome long Foot-Stalks, having yellow Flowers exadlly like the other 
Chryfanthemums. 
It grows on the Banks of Rio Cobre, and in all the moift places. of the 
Town, and other Savannas. 
The Defcription and Figure of this, fhew it to be different from the Chry- 
fanthemum fae Virginianum auriculato dulcamara folio oétopetalon, Pluken. 
Phyt, Tab. 242. Fig. 6. though Dr. Plukenet doubts in his Mantiffa, p. 48. if 
it be not the fame. 
XXVII. Chryfanthemum fylvaticum repens minus, Chamadryos folio, flore lye 
teo nudo, [emine roftrato. Cat. p.t26. Tab.155. Fig2. An Chryfanthemum Ma- 
derafpatanam mentha arvenfis folio & facie floribus Ligemellis ad foliorum alas 
pediculis curtis. Pluken. Phyt. Tab. 118. Fig. 5. Alm. p. 100 ? 
This had feveral hairy fibrous Roots, which it {truck into the Earth from 
the lowermoft joint, it ufually lay along on the furface of the Earth, having 
joints, and.a Stalk about nine {Inches long. The Leaves ftand on half an 
Inch long Foot-Stalks, oppofite to one another, being about three quarters of 
an Inch long, and as broad at round Bafe where broadeft, from whence they 
decreafed 
