CHINA. 1751- 2 8 7 



Mollugo pentapbylla. 



Ammanla baccifera. 



Urena procumbens, floribus minoribus, a little 

 tree with a very low flera, whofe boughs hung 

 round about on the ground. I only found a 

 fingle one of this kind, and that on the fummit 

 of a mountain. At firft fight its fructification 

 looked like that of our agrimony. 



A plant like the Brometia flood near the 

 water ; but I could not afcertain it, as the fruc- 

 tification was wanting. 



Of fuch plants as are good againft fcurvy 

 I found none growing fpontaneouily in China ; 

 nor one w r ith a cruciated flower (Tetradynamia). 

 Indeed I did not hear of any body here who 

 had been much incommoded with the fcurvy. 

 But in tho.fe countries where this difeafe is 

 common, anti-fcorbutic plants grow in plenty, 

 efpecially on the fea-fhores ; that the failors, 

 who are mod afflicted with this diftemper, 

 may, as foon as they land, have the neceffary 

 remedies at hand. Thus we may fee in every- 

 place the cleared marks of the all-wife difpo- 

 fitions of our great Creator ; and the more 

 we confider nature, the more we are led to 

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