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many places, where 

 any of tfie human fp 

 berries) might have 



N ; AT U R A 



STORY 



we 



ha 



no reafon to think it had been ever 



but the birds (the general pi 



vated by 



of feeds and fmaller 



ed 



g 



fubaftring 



probably done the work. Every part of the plant is confider 



the feeds are frequently ufed 



ulnerary water 



d 



mixtures ; and the leaves often applied with fuccefs to fores and wounds by the poorer 

 fort of people. 



OLDENLANDIA 1.' Minor cattle teretimo, foliis line art bus oppofi i 



Oldenland 



Oldenland 



lis minimis foriferis £? pedunculis ramojis veljim 

 plicibus ad alas. 



Plum. t. 36. 

 Ehret. t. 2. 









The ilender Oldenlandia with fmall narrow Leaves. 



This plant is found in the moft barren Savannas, and rifes generally to the height of 



4 inches from the 



the foot ftalks of the flower 



■ 



fometimes limp 

 ves, or fhoot from 



but oftener branched, and rife immediately from the alas of the le; 



the top of the fmaller ramifications : all the parts of the plant are very delicate 



OLDENLANDIA 



Aquatica joliis obGvatis cppojitis, Jloribus Jingu 

 laribus ad alas. 



Oldenlandia Pedunculis fimpliciflimis frudlibus hifpidis. L. Sp. PI 





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Tl 



Water-Oldenland 





Periantium. ^tadriphyllum perfiflens, foliis lanceolatis germini incidentib, 



Corolla. Petula quatuor minima 



calicis po/ii 



per/picua, ad interfiitias foh 



Stamina. Filamenta quatuor brevia t foliolis calicis fuppojita \ antheras ma 





Piftill 



Pericarpi 



jores elipticce incombmit 

 Germ en oblongum obverfe-pyramidatum calici fuppojitum 



%us longitudine jlaminum, ftigma capitatum obtufi 



ftilus 



Capfula 



oblon^ 



ML 



vel quadrilocularis 



Semina. Plura fubrotunda. 

 plant is very common about the ferry 



obverfe pyr ami data quadrigona bi 



Th 



d then it grows of a length proportioned to the depth of the 



found frequently in the waters 



and yields 



d bends with the ftream j but both the leaves and ffalks are of a reddiil 

 fometimes it is found upon the banks, and then it is of a green colour, and a creep 



and generally runs mot 



lefs, according to the quantity of moiflure it can 



obtain. I have, before examination, taken it for a fpecies of the Onagra 



PTEROTA 



1. 



Subfpinofc, 



fol. 



minoribus per p 



marginato- alatas 



Roi. Si mi lis. &c. Pk 

 Schinus 



difpofttisy fpicis geminatis alaribus. Tab. 5. f. 1. 



Lauro 



t. 107. f. 4 

 Foliis pinnatis foliolis oblong 



&c 



nts 



Jafmini folio, &c. Slo. Cat. & H 



L. Sp. PI 



6 



f. r. 



The Saven-tree, or baftard Ironwood. 



This fhrub is very common in the lower lands of Jamaica, and rifes by a branched 

 and fomewhat prickly flalk frequently to the height of eight or ten feet : the 

 wood is very hard, and the branches abundantly furnifhed with little leaves, and 

 fmall white flowers that rife on double fpikes from the als of the ribs. Its charac- 

 ters have not been yet defcribed 5 they appear in the following manner, 



viz. 



Periantium. Minimum quadridentatum. 



Co- 





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