20fi IIOKTUS JAMAICENSI-S. rtEA 



Ifelfchysutii, or golden cttdueed, golden tufts, or locks. It hatW woolly stalk, 

 with many L:'.ig narrow leaves, green on the-upper side, and hoary and woolly on the 

 under side ; the flowers t^iuw on the tops of liie stalks, in tufts, without any foot-stalk ; 

 the ourwiird k;ives, . or rff/;5J(/a, are like silver scales, inclosing the flowers, of a pale- 

 piirpli colour, with ycliuvv thrums as in daisies; then folknv many pappoiis seeds, as 

 ill others ol the kina. The whole plant is drying and restriisgent, which makes it good 

 against all surts of fluxes and catarrJiB. Jt is goud in cpinsies, and- all ulcers. r^^'ar* 

 havt, p. 7-3. 



'^ 3. ruuruRAscExs. purplb. 



Cevyza Wfijor adorata, seu baccharis,Jiflribiis purpureis nudis. Sloane, 

 V. 1, p. 258, t. 152, f. i. Odoiata mnior ert'cta, purpurascens, 

 lorj/i/ibosa ; Joliis ovatis, villosa. Browne, p. 3 IS. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, serrate, suh-tomentose ; stem sub-herbaceous, simple 

 at hotloiTj, cor^Liibed at top ; iiowers ovs-te. 



The stem of this^jlant, which rises sixteen or twenty inches in height, is purple, 

 generally pretty siuijjie below the middle, but as it rises throws out a good many 

 branches. The lower ones have pear-shaped leaves, three inches long and one broad, 

 on short petioLs, rough, and notched about the edges. The leaves on the upper 

 branches are niucn uarrov.'er, and end in acute points. The flowers are purple, and 

 produced in round LL;nches at the eflds of the branches. Browne observes, that the 

 smejl of this plant is agreeable to most people, and that it is frequently kept among 

 clothes to preserve them from moths and other vermin. It is common in all low marshy 

 lands. 



4. RIGIDA. PJGID. 



Leaves petiolsd, obovate, entire, rugged, veined underneath ; spikes flexuose; 

 flowers in pairs, all directed the same way. Sw. 



PLEA-WORT. CINERARIA. 



Cl. 19, OR. I.Syngcnesia polygamia super fiua. Nat. OK.Compositir. 

 This name is derived irum the Latin word cinis, as most of the species are gray Of 

 .ash-coloured. 



Gen. char. Calyx common, simple, many-leaved, leaflets equal; corolla com- 

 pound, radiaLcti ; coroilets hermaphrodite, eq\ial, nutiicrous m the disk ; the 

 stamens in tlie iiermaplirodite, live filaments, with cylindric tubuious anthers, 

 five-cleft at top ; the pistii in the hermaphrodite has an oblong germ, filiform 

 st^le, two stigmas ; female germ t>biong, style filiform, stigmas two; there is no 

 pericarp, the calyx unchanged ; seeds solitary, linear, quadrangular ; pappus 

 hairy, simple, copious, the receptacle naked, tlatlish. Two species of this genua 

 vas discovered in Jamaica by Swart?. 



1. GLABRA. SMOOTH. 



flowers corynibed ; calyxes cylindric; leaves oblong, acute, somewhat tooth* 

 letted, iiejvfcless, suiootli on holii sides, and a little succulent ; siem shrubby, 



2. JDISCOLOR, 



