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known, namely the Verbafcum OJbeckii Linn, 

 of which I made the following defcription : 

 the plant fpreads on all fides ; the ftalk lies 

 on the ground, is undivided, triangular, and 

 nervofe ; the leaves are oval, and cut into ir- 

 regular fegments; the upper leaves are lefs, 

 almoit feffile, the lower ones have petioli : 

 the peduncles are woolly, mofl of them bifid, 

 and come from the bottom cf the leaves ; the 

 calyx is deeply quinquefid, woolly, with lan- 

 ceolated fegments ; the corolla is rotated, the 

 rube fliort ; the limbus quinquefid ; the five 

 filaments are very fliort, and reft on & fquama, 

 covering the germen ; the anihcra are oblong, 

 erected, and longer than the filaments ; the 

 jrertnen is almoft round ; the Jlylus is longer 

 than the filaments ; the Jhgma is entire and 

 pointed : the fruit was not yet vifible : the 

 whole plant had a fmell of mulk, and might 

 probably find a place in the apothecary's {hop. 



At three o'clock in the afternoon, I 

 arrived at my inn quite wet ; but an hour 

 after I accompanied fome of my countrymen 

 who went out of town to buy lemons. I foon 

 obferved a particular tree in a garden, which 

 had nothing but a few crooked pods, with 

 neither leaves nor flowers, and confequently 



nothing 



