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along stalk often twenty in number. The 

 flowers are bright blue, very conspicuous, and 

 the plant being ubiquitous cannot fail to be 

 noticed. The root is used to mix with cofifee. 

 Toad Flax (Linaria Vulgaris)— An upright 

 plant, one to two feet high, slender, smooth 

 and leafy stem with narrow leaves pointing 

 upwards all the way up. Flowers very showy 

 yellow, with deep orange palate, and a point- 

 ed spur hanging downwards. It is familiarly 

 known as " yellow snapdragon," and "eggs 

 and bacon." 



Tobacco {Nieotiana Tabacum)— A plant four 

 to six feet high with large leaves, rather 

 downy. Flowers pink, two inches long. Its 

 locality is around old ruins and occasional 

 waysides, it being a remnant of what was at 

 one time largely cultivated here. Of late 

 yearS; however, no attention has been paid to 

 it, probably in consequence of the moist at- 

 mosphere rendering the curing of it uncer- 

 tain. 



Cape Goofieberry (Physalis Peruviana)— Has 

 all parts velvety, with long soft hairs, 

 branches spreading, leaves heart shaped. 

 Flowers yellow, with large purple spots at 

 their base; followed by a berry the size of a 

 small cherry enclosed in a ten-ribbed calyx. 

 It is cultivated in gardens, but has escaped 

 in various places into the open country. 



Verbena— (V. Chamoedrifolia)— With rough, 

 rather wrinkled leaves, spreading over the 

 turf, is only a few inches high, but is so 

 abundant in patches as to give a universal 

 colour to the spot where it grows. The pur- 

 ple flowering verbena is the most generally 

 distributed, and though I am informed the 

 pink and the white species have also escaped, 

 I have failed to verify this. 



