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‘Passerina HirsuTaA. Snaccy Sparrow- 
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Class dial Order. 
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Generic Character. 
Cal.0. Cor 4-fida.. Stam. tubo imposita. Nux. 1. cor- 
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| Specific Character and Synonyms. — 
Passerina hirsuta; foliis carnosis extus glabris, caulibus 
tomentosis. Sp. Pl. 518. Willd. ed. 2. p. 430. Hort. 
Kew. ed. alt.2. p. 414. Mart. Mill. Dict. v.2. Flor. 
Frang. 5. p. 366. Vahl Symbol. 1. p. 29. Desfont. 
Fi. Ail. 1, p. 330. 
Tuyme.aa tomentosa, foliis sed iminoris. Bauh. Pin. 463. 
Raj. Hist. 1589. Tournef. Inst. 595, ° 
Sanamunpa tertia. Clus. Hisp. 177. f. 178. Hist. 1. p. 89. 
Park. Theatr. p. 202. Gerard. Emend. 1596. f. 1. 
_ Breyn. Cent. 1. t. 19? 
Erica alexandrina Italorum. Lob. ic. 2. 217. fA; 
SesamoipEs parvum Dalechampii. Bauh. Hist. 1. p. 595. 
Hist. Lugd. 2, p. 533. f. 1. : 
The synonym from Breynivs quoted by Linnavs in the 
species Plantarum, is omitted in Reicnarp’s edition, and 
expressly excluded by Desronrarnes ; but is restored by 
Wii.penow, and to us it appears to be a pretty repre- 
sentation of our plant: our own figure, being taken from a_ 
young plant, is more erect and less branched than in older 
specimens, The older Botanists were well acquainted with 
this plant, but all their figures are either repetitions or copies 
of that of Cxusrus, first published in his Stirpes ri 5 , 
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