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Vicla httea, yellow vetch. 

 One Phyfalis. 



Solatium nigrum vidgare, garden or common 

 nightfliade. 



Alfine media, common chickweed. 

 Borrago officinalis, borage, in Spanifli Boraja. 

 Ma ha rotundifolia, fiore majors rubefcente. 

 Sonchus oleraceusy fowthiftle, in Spanifli 6V- 



raja. 



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Urtica urens, annual nettle,"! in Spanifh or- 



dioica, common nettle, j tega. 



Ricinus communis, in Spanifli, Higuera del 

 inferno, or infernal fig-tree ; this was fcarce. 



Sifymbrium trio, fmooth broad-leaved hedge- 

 muftard. 



Senecio vulgaris, common groundfel, which 

 likewife grew on the roofs and gutters. 



Punica granatum, the pomegranate-tree ; it 

 was then without bloflbms. 



In poor and wafte fields, the Palmetto {Cha- 

 tnarops humilis), which is called Pa Imito by 

 the Spaniards, is as common as the -juniper- 

 (hrub with us : the Palmetto has a narrow, 

 and as it were compreffed Hem, with thorns 

 on the edges. The ftem is about a quarter of 

 a yard long, and ends with a leaf of the fame 



length, 



