oosa. HORTUS JAMAICENSISi S3j 



This has a long- root, towards the top covered with ferruginous hair or moss, at the 

 l)otti)ui of whicii are se\eral fil:inients cr Uireaas ot a dark brown coljnr. From tius 

 xoot ris.' several footstalks, cornered on oiieide, and round on the other, of the big- 

 Bess of a bwan-quill, of a grey colour. The sta k is thick set widi short >narp prickles, 

 as well as ttie branches, which are opposite to one an )tiiL:r, about six inches distant, 

 tlie St Ik rising 111 ree or four feet high. The twigs of the Lranches are alternate, on. 

 which stanJ the leaflets, which are roundish, aee[jly cut in on the edges, of a yellowish, 

 green colour, having the seed in httie spots ou Lie ends of the segineuLS gf the Ijaclj. 

 mdc of the iea.ves Hloane. 



See Ferns, 



GooJriA See Calaloe, hrancheil 



GOOSE foot: .AMARANTHUg. 



f L. CO, OR. 5. Monoecia pentandria. NaT. OR. ^liscellanete^ 

 ^N. CHAR. See Calahie, prick/]/, p. 142. 



POI.YGONOIDR?. . POLYGONUM-UKP:. 



Slifum poly^nnoides viride, seu ex viridi ef alh'^ t'ar'e'^atiim, pnlyan- 

 thos. .'^loane, v. I, p. 144, t. 9'>, f. .?. ChenoDodimn. Htnn^ler 

 mull idorum, foil s muculatis ov-Jisj fioribus raccinosis alaribus.' 

 Browne, p. 14. 



<51omem1cs three-leaved; female flaivers funnel-shapeJ; leaves rhomb-ovate, 

 emarginate,. 



Stem decumbent or- ascen h"ng, branched at the base, round, strei'ked, red, and 

 Smooth; branches quite sinipl', diffuse 1 ; le.ives sni.).)ti), trreeii, glaucous beneath, 

 *vitii a short, gr'ei, lierba<'e:jus p >int. below the incisiir', m;)re conspicuous in the 



J^oun^er than the ol.-er leaves ; petioles green, ciianueded, surroiin led at Dpuitha 

 eafy edge. Glonierules axiliarv, at the base of each petijie, -v/ith from- six to eight 

 flowers in each; bractcs nivnercms,- su'ml.te,. acuminate, ninciMnate, transparent- 

 .whitie,. v*ith a green nerve.- Cal x of the teaifde flower ono-ieat'ed, ventricose ; the 

 five segments spreading veri- ninch,. I>iinti,- Kransn;irent-white. Wnen the see i is ripe 

 llie capsules fall with the calyx, which is tht-n twice a., long as the nctes.- Calvx of 

 the nide ti,ree-leaved,. the length of. the bm-tes,. menihr.inaceous, transp xcnt ; tiie 

 ieaflets obion!i-obtuse; with a Ljreen nerve. K varies iirJiifrent sitiiatiins. Sioa le 

 says each of the petals have a purple streak, and are of a : ale green colour, and thrft 

 the leaves are so netini -s variegated with a I irire wJirte spfot; tfte see Is ire compressed, 

 biackiSil brown-, and snining. Tnis plant, iw frefjuent-y niet with ab'out K'niiston ^.nd' 

 Spanish row-i, where it rises from. iheee to. eight inclies in heij^nt, and is socnetime* 

 gathered and used as a green. 



Goofe-fnof, oTsrxcbcme. This herb is so < ailed for its Villi g {as it is sai.'y hog", or 

 Viakinii a sow cast her piL>s. the leaf .resembling the n enilirantnis part of a goose or 

 ^uUJi i'uoU It^rows vcOpl<-"';}' i'^ '^"^^''"-'''-' along the iiJca of hi^ihwajs, in yardv 



U ^2, aud 



