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2. FKUT1COSUM. SHRUBBY 



ITeliotropium minus lithospennifoliis. Sloane, r. 1, p. 214, t. 132, 

 f. 4. Fruticulosum kirsutum, Joiiis lanceotatis uuuonbus, spicit 

 singularibus tenninalibus. Browne, p. 131, H. 4. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate, hairy ; spikes solitary, sessiie. 



The small shrubby turnsole grows commonly about Old Harbour, seldom rising more 

 than fire or six inches. The leaves are s-uall and hairy, and the stalks of a shrubby ap- 

 pearance. Spikes always single and not much bent, smail and slender. Browne. 

 flower's terminating, on short pedicels, pointing one way, on short, axillary, hispid, 

 peduncles; segments of the calyx upright, stiir'; corolla white, border five-cornered 7 ; 

 throat closed, pale, having five rays from the centre; to the angles of the border ; fila- 

 ments from the middle of tne tube ; ant Hers converging and cohering at the tip ; the 

 germ ovate, style short subulate, stigma capitate ; capsule roundish, containing two 

 hemispherical seeds. 



3. CURRASSAVlCXWf. C'JUACOA. 



Heliotroplum maritimum minus, folio glauco, fore albo. Sloane, v. 1, 

 p 213, t 132, f. 3. Sttpinum leucoplieum molle, foliis august is. 

 Browne, p. 151. H. 3. 



Leaves lanceolate-linear, smooth, without veins, spikes conjugate. 



Stem round, smooth, juicy, white, seldom more than fourteen or sixteen inches 

 high ; it grows in tufts, and always found spreading about the root, and is easily distin- 

 guished by its whitish, smooth, narrow, leaves, which are in tufts, somewhat blunt, 

 upright, on very short petioles, some alternate, others opposite. Spikes in pairs, on 

 a common peduncle, and recurved ; the corolla white with a yellow base and an open 

 throat; the fruit an ovate globular berry, containing four nuts, drying as it ripens, 

 an 1 divisible into four parts ; seeds solitary, ovate-oblong, having a very short beak, 

 convex on one side, slightly concave on the other. Sloane says it grows on salt mar- 

 6hy grounds near the seaside. 



4. GNAPHALODES. CNAPHALIUM-LIKE. 



Heliotropium arborcum, maritimum, tomentosum, gnaphali Ameri~ 

 ami folds. Sloane, p. 213. 



Leaves linear, obtuse, tomehtose ; peduncles dichotomous ; flowers of the spikes 

 in fours ; stem frutescent. 



This is an upright shrubby plant, commonly two feet high, sometimes rising six 

 feet, woody, and firm ; bark downy, smooth, and white ; branches towards the top, 

 round, little divided, the younger scarred at bottom where the leaves have grown, al- 

 together forming a convex, white, handsome, head, "visible far off at sea. Leaves 

 wedge-linear, veinless, thick, tomentose on both sides, glaucous, sessile, numerous, 

 crowded at the ends of the branches ; common peduncles round, tomentose, erect, a 

 little longer than the leaves, terminating, few on each branch, bifid or trifid at top j 

 single pedicels spring from the divisions, and form a spike directed one way, frequent- 

 ly bifid itself, but sometimes simple ; flowers small, with the calyxes of all so connect- 

 ed that no one can be taken out without tearing the next ; corolla white. Ectzius. 



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