W2 HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. apASisn 



Style, the length of the stamens, and two reflexed stigmas ; there is no pericarp; 

 calyx converging into a depressed acuminate globe; seeds solitary, oblongisb ; 

 down capillary, sessile ; receptacle naked. 



AGROSTIS. FIELD. 



Sonchus lavis, Sloane, v. 1, p. 235. Foliis ciliatis obtusis, varie eC 

 piotunde sinuatis. Browne, p. 311. 



Peduncles tomentose, many-flowered, calyxes smooth, stem striated, leaves 

 gash serrate, sessile. 



"Root fusiform, fibrous, milky, whitish externally. Stem from one to three feet 

 #rigb, upright, branched, smooth, tender, brittle, hollow, leafy, sometimes purplish. 

 Leaves embraci rag, smooth, rucinate, or pinnatifid, with the lobes acute, and more or 

 Jess toothed or spiny, of a green colour above, paler below. Peduncles axillary and 

 terminating, forming a sort of cyme, with a soft lanugo which quickly falls ofi". Calyx, 

 before flowering cylindrical and truncate, afterwards bellying out at bottom and forming 

 a cone, scales smooth and pointed. Corolla pale yellow ; seed oblong, flattened, an- 

 gular, grooved, somewhat rugged, notch-letted; seed down very fine and smooth; 

 receptacle rugged with little prominent points, and shining. Cur-tis. A, though 

 Swartz has made a different species of this from the pleracea, or common sow-thistle 

 of 'Europe, yet the description agrees so exactly that both sloane and Browne consi- 

 dered it as the same. It is very common in all parts of Jamaica, where it i~ generally 

 made use of as food for hogs, of which they areverj fund, as well as are rabbits. Brogue 

 cays it is an excellent ingredient in all cooling, diuretic, and aperitive, apuzems. 



Spanish Arbour Vine See Indian CuEF.riia. 



Cal.alue See Pokeweed. 



- Elder See Pepper EldcR. 



SPANISH ELM, or PRIXCEWOOD. COIIDIA. 



Cl. 5, or. 1. Pentandria monogynia. Nat. or. Asperifolia. 

 Gen. char. See Clammy Cherry, v. I, p. 197. 



GERASCANTIIUS. 



Jferfo afitiis arbor, vesiculora malcrie, laurifolio lucid.-', fiorc pci;faw~ 

 taloide sulphureo amplo. Sloane, v. 2, p. 63, t. 183, f. 2. foiiit 

 ovafo-jab/ongis, utruujiie productis, racemis tenmnalibus. Browne, 

 p. I'U, t. 29, f. 3. 



Leavesrlanceolate ovate, scabrous, panicle terminating ; calyxes ten striated. 

 Stem and branches unarmed, patulous, round, smooth ; leaves petioled, scattered, 

 acuminate, entire, veined, especially behind, smooth. Panicles large, composed of 

 patulous, alternate, trichotomous, many-flowered, branch lets ; the la>.t pedicels.tb.ree- 

 flowered. Fiowers rather large, veined, permanent, shrivelling; calyx tubular, five- 

 toothed, ten -striated ; tube of the corolla spreading towards the opening, the bottom 

 jaectareous ; border live-cleft, segments blunt emirc ; filaments fastened to the corolla 



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