SEA-wfeds HORTUS JAMAICEN'SIS. 153 



within the substance, or Under the entitle of the whole frond. Three species have 

 been found in Jamaica. 



]. PAVONIA. PEACOCK. 



Membranaceous brevis, lobaiits, circuits, concent 'ricis votatus. Sloane, v. 

 J, p. G2. Fuciis inaritimus gallb pavmis pennas rejerens, Browne, 

 . p. 71. 

 Flat, kidney-form, tapering to diabase^ with transverse arched lines. 

 The membranous ash-coloured dwarf fueus is a small plant which grows very near the* 

 shores in all the hays of Jamaica, it seldom rises above three or four inches, and sticks 

 by a strong ligamentous footstalk to every rock and smaller pebble. Browne. It is 

 sometimes incrusted with a coralline white matter. 



2. LACTUCA. LETTK'F. 



Alga lat if olia prima she muscusmarinus lacfilca fulig-. Sloane, v. 1, 

 p. 62. 

 Fronds many frova the same base, distinct, oblong, ilaf, somewhat undulate, 

 tapering below, dilated a i . rds, lacmi 



This iscommo Ay thrown up on-all tue shores of the island. There are two sorts of 

 this plant Thejirst sort hath a dark greenish wood) stalk, rising from fibrous root* 

 a!) nit three feet high,, having many small stalks coming out on each side ; and upon 

 each stalk come out eight or nine leaves, v. I houl an m nner of foot-stalk, opposite to 

 olie another, about two inches long, and half ah- inch broad where broadest, which is 

 towards the stalk, and then- goes off taperin r with a sharp point; at the< nd-of me branches 

 come out its flowers, which are pentapetalo ts, and of a yellow colour; after the flowers 

 come small rial slender pods, from lour to six inches long, which, when ripe, grow 

 brown, and open ; their seeds are a Utile biggeg than lentils. It flowers and bears seed 

 all the year. The second sort grpws much like the former in most-respects, only is a 

 little smaller, and the leaves round -instead of -being pointed at the ends. The root is 

 powerful against poison ; the seed, bruised and mixed with vinegar, prevails against 

 ring-worms. Tue whole plant is cooling and cleansing, and therefore good m ulcers; ' 

 steeped as you do indigo, it will afford a blackish-blue muddy substance, which i.s ex- 

 cellent for the galled back of a horse, and other sores. It is called by some, wild indigo. 

 Barham, p. L2& . 



3. MONTANA. ' MOUNTAIN*. 



Flat, coriaceous, terrestrial, sanguineous. Swartz discovered this species, which is- 

 a native of the Blue Mountains, the leaf is kidney-shaped, sessile, zones aggregate,. 

 ielow hoary. 



III. BYSSUS. 

 Gen. char. Filaments or fibres thin, membranous, woolly, sprinkled externally 

 with grains of fructification. 



SANGUINE A. SCARLET. 



Capillary, velvety, perennial, scarlet, attached to the bark of trees. 



This genus is the last in the scale of vegetation in the class cryptogamia, it appears 

 i the form of threads or meal on the bark of trees or on rotten wood, rocks, damp 



banks- 



