The Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 263 
decreafed to the point, being ferrated about the edges, and of a dark green 
colour, with {everal appearing Ribs, going through the Leaf, fome whereof 
take their Original from the end of che Foot-Stalk, as from a common 
Center. At the tops on three quarters of an Inch long Petioli ftand the 
Heads, being made up of many Flowers fet clofe together, naked, finall, 
and yellowifh, with many Stamina appearing on them. After thefe follow 
feveral oblong, fhort, brown, cannulated Seeds, having two or three prickles 
at their ends. 
It grew in the inland Woods in feveral places of this Ifland. 
XXVUT. Chryfanthemum paluftre minimum repens, apii folios. Cat. pe 126. 
Tab. 155. Fig. 3. Chryfanthemum Americanum, hamile, randaculi folio. Plums, 
Tournef. Inft. p. 492. 
- This has (mall, ftringy, dark brown Roots, fending out feveral Branches, 
{pread round on the furface of the Ground, having Leaves cut im on the 
edges, refembling Smallage Leaves, of a pale green colour. The Flowers 
are made up of feveral {mall, yellow Flowers, ftanding: clofé by one: ano- 
ther in the manner of other Chryfanthemums, being farrounded by Barbule, 
of the fame yellow colour. The Seeds are long, greenifh brown, ftriated, 
and to each Flower follows one Seed, ftanding in the Heads juft as the 
Flowers did. 
It grows in the moifter places of the Town Savanna’s, and in the Caribes 
and.is in perfection fome time after rainy weather. 
_. Dr. Plukenet.in his Mantif[a, p. 47. doubts whether this be the Chryfanthe- 
sour Chinenfe foliis plurifariam divifs, rc. Phyt.Tab.r2. Fig.3. whoevercoms 
pares the Figures and Defcriptions of thefe Plants, will foon fee they: differ. 
> XIX. Artemifia hamilior flore majore albo.. Cat. p.127. | Abfynthium eryfimi 
folio, Achoawan Alpini quodammodo accedens ex infula Famaicenfi. Pluk. Alm, p.ré 
Wild Wormwood. : | 
_ This from a {mall, whitith brown Inch long Root, having fome few fibers, 
thereby to draw its Nourifhment, rifes one Foot high, feveral,  ftriated, 
whitith, folid Stalks, fupporting feveral Branches, coming from the infide 
of the Leaves, very deeply cut in onthe edges; after’ the manner of Worm- 
wood, from whence its name, or Mugwort, only whiter in colour than 
thofe of the laft, the lower the Leaves the larger they are. The Flowers 
at top ftand in Heads on the Branches ends, and are made up of a great 
many fingle white ones, making much larger Flowers than thofe of ordi- 
ort. 
a oe. by the Town of St. fago de la Vega, in the claiy and gravelly 
ae. of the Savapnas. 
r flowers moft part of the year. | 
: as ode ufe df as a good vulnerary Herb, and accounted very effectual. 
_ XXX Scabiole afinis anomala fylvatica, enule folio, fingulis flofculis albis in 
todem capitulo oe habentibus, femine pappofo. Gate p. 127. Tab. 156. 
ee has a round ftriated, rough, pretty large Stem, rifing to three Foot 
high, having towards the bottom feveral Leaves fer without any order, on 
half an Inch long Foot-Stalks. They are five Inches long, and two broad 
in the middle where broadeft, from a narrow beginning increifing to the 
middle, and thence decreafing to the end, indented about the edges, being 
rough above, having the furface {cabrous, or corrugated after the manner of 
Sage or Foxglove, and woolly underneath. Towards the top the Leaves are 
fmaller, out of whofe .4/e come hoary Inch long Foot-Stalks, Pr ecreteg 
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