304- HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. wood 



The large club-moss or wolf's-claw is a mossy plant frequent in all the mountainous 

 and shady parts of Jamaica ; it throws out a good many strong branches, rising common- 

 ly from one to four feet, but is apt to lodge when it grows so luxuriantly, and then 

 shoots many smaller roots from every part of the trunk and branches that lie contiguous 

 to the ground. Browne. 



'2. PJLUMQS.UM. FLUMED. 



Selago, I. Ranlosum repens et radiculosa, spicillisquadrutis. Browne, 

 p/s3. 

 Leaves two-rowed, imbricate, gibbous one side at the base ; superficial ones semi- 

 ovate, ciliate, with a small tip ; shoots nearly erect, forked ; spikes terminal, 

 sessile, square, 



3. TAXlFOttUM. YEW-LEAVED. 



Leaves scattered, eiuht rowed, linear-lanceolate, flat, quite entire, spreading; 

 stem erect, forked.- Sia. 



4. SQUARROSUM. squarrose. 



Leaves sjub-vertacillate, every where reflected, inferior, squarroseV, rigid ; stem 

 forked, pointed ; capsules scattered. Su\ 



WOOD-SORREL. OXALIS. 



Cl.. 10, OR. 5. Decandria pentasynia. Nat. or. Gritinalcs. 



Gen. char. Calyx a five-parted perianth ; corolla five-parted : i reus ten canil- 

 lary filaments with roundish anthers ; the pistil has a fivc-cornere I gertii) arid fiy - 

 styles with blunt stigmas ; the pericarp a five-celled, five-cbrnered, capsule^ open- 

 ing at the corners ; seeds ariled. One species is a native of Jamaic i. 



STRICTA. STIFF. 



Trifolium acetosum corniculatum lutciim minus repens el ctiam pre- 

 cumbens. Sloane, v. 1, p. 18. Cattle erec/o runwso, pedunculis 

 multijioris. Browne, p. 2Z\. 



Sem upright, leaflets ob-cordute, peduncles umbelliferous, petals quite entire. 

 Hoot perennial, creeping, round, putting out capillary fibres at the knots, branched. 

 Stemsfromthc root as it creeps'along several, roundish, slender, somewhat villose, pur- 

 plish, finally branched, half a Foot high and more 1 , upright, but beirfg weal, often jyin 

 down) annual. Leaves alternate, a few sometimes bppoMfce, temate. Petiole) springing 

 from a joint, margined in front, rotin I, villose, spreading, from two to fbap inches long, 

 flaccid; leaflets' 'sub-petroled, somewhat hirsut'.: on both sul hs, with decumbent hai 

 and green, ciliate, scarcely half an inch long. Peduncles axillary, jointed at the base, 

 round, villose, upright, about the same length with the leaves, having from two to se- 

 ven flowers m an umbel, with a penicei often branched ; leaflets of the inv ilucre several, 

 ciliate, and somewhat hirsute. Calycine leaflets lanceolate, sharpish, somewhat hirsute, 

 ciliate, pale green, erect; corolla twice or thrice as long as the calyx, sub-cainpanulate, 

 yellow; claws upright, border ob-ovate, very obscurely eniargiiiatt: and very spreading ; 



filaments 



