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STNONTMJ, Rici 
Pha 
Lond. y Edlnh 
H * 
Emac. /. 496. Ricinus vulgaris. Bauh, Fin 
Hi ft* Hi' /. 642. Ricinus five Cataputia 
43 
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Theat. p 
8 
maj 
1 
Rail Hifl, p. I ^^, R 
g 
Gerard, 
y. Baub, 
Park, 
foliis majoribus p 
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lobatis, lobis fer 
35 
Fruticofus afliirs-en! 
o 
r 
Browne's yam 
Cat.A^, TheO 
Ricinus Americanus frudu racemofo hifpido, &c. Sloane 
foliis pelt 
Longs yam. v. iii. p. y 
Ricinus 
qualiter ferratis, capjfiilis hilpidis. Miller, Fig 
of Plants, tab. 219. In horto botanico Gottingenfi tres exft 
rietates : «,^Z^^r^,caule petiolis coftifque foliorum ftipulis pedun 
capfulifque palUde rubris, R 
ruber Rum 
Herb. Amb 
P\ 79- ; /53 nitens, caule petiolis coftis foliorum 
partibus et fummis foliis /2 
ifq 
Ricinus lucidus Jacquin. Mifc 
AuJlr.vol.ii.p. 360. Qtlcon.rarior.tab. 2 7.ut puto ; ^,^7^//^^ totaq 
3s. Ricinus albiis i^f/iwp/f. I.e./. 9 
viridis prseter ftylos rubicund 
Avanacoe f. Citavanacu. He 
Mm-r, App . Med. v. iv. p. 
torn, 2. /. 57. tab, 3 
Vide 
95 
Cla/s Mono 
Ord. Monadelphia. Lin. Gen. Plant. loZ^ 
Eff.G 
en, Ch. Ma 
CaL 5-partitus 
a 
o. 
'Stam, nu merofa 
Fem, 6'^/. 3-partitus. Cor, o, 6'/y/3,bifid 
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Sem 
Sp. Ch 
R. foiiisv peltatis fubpalmatis ferratis 
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lT J 
THE root is biennial, long, thick, whitifh, and befet with many fmall 
iibres: the ftem is round, thick, jointed, channelled, glaucous, of a 
purpliih red colour towards the top, and rifes luxuriantly fix or eight 
-^^t in height: J the leaves are large, and deeply divided into feven 
fe 
cr Ixt^en^f ^^^^ that Jn Jamaica it grows with furprifmg rapidity to the height 
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