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NAMA 



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Reclinata villofa, foliis ovatis, petiolis marginaiis recurrent!- 

 bus, floribus folitariis. Tab. 18. f. 2. 



The fpreading hairy Nama. 



Periantium Monophyllum in quinque lacinias linear -es e reel as acutas ad L r- 



fim fefium 

 Corolla Monopetala tubulat 



Stam 



tubu 

 mbus patulus quinquect 



:ylindraceus longitudine fere calic 



Filamenta quinque ; antherae Jttb rotunda? 



fligmata 



Piftillum. Germen oblongum j ityli duo longitudine fere ft 



fimplicia acuta. 

 Pericarpium. Capfula oblonga nnilocularis bivahis longitudinaliter dehifc 



Semena 



Plurima fubrotunda dijjepimento affi 



This little pi 



common in J 



• I have met with a few fp 



fp reads a bo 



of it about the Angels beyond Spanijh Town; h fpreads about the root, and ieldom 

 grows above five or fix inches in length. The whole plant is fomewbat hairy, and 

 the ftalk and branches margined. 





ERYNGIUM 1. Fcetidum foliis inferioribus angufiis ferratis, fupcriorib 



laciniatis & aculeatis. 

 Eryngium foliis gladiatis ferratofpinofis multifidis. L. Sp. PI. 



Eryngium fcetidum foliis angitllis ft 



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Slo. Cat. 127. & H. t. 156 



Fit tweed. 



This plant is frequent in Jamaica, as well as in mofl of the ether fugar colonies ; 

 it rifes from a thick proportioned root, and fpreads a good many leaves about the 

 crown, before it throws up a (talk j but as the feafon advances, it (hoots into a 

 branched ftem, which generally rifes to the height of one or two feet above the 

 ground, and bears all its flowers in roundifh radiated heads. 



All the parts of this plant are reckoned very powerful antihifterics, and "much 

 ufed by the negroes and poorer whites, on all occaiions of that nature j it is chiefly 

 administered in decoctions or infufions. 



HYDROCOTYLE 1. Foliis orbicularis pelt at 

 Hydrocotyle, foliis peltatis, umbel lis mult if oi 



umbellis multif 



Hydrocojyle, foliis pelt a 



bicuL 



L. Sp. PI 



& Gro. Fl. Virg. 

 Cotyledon aquatica, &c. Slo. H 



undique emarginatis. L. H. C 





Hydrocotyle vulg 



Tournef. Infl. 328. 



Water Pennyworth 



HYDROCOTYLE 2. FLu mill or, foliis femi-elipticis crenatis, fcapo florift 



partiali brcvi nudo 

 Hydrocotyle foliis reniformibus cequaliter cren 

 An, Afarum e terra Mariana. Pk. 1. 15. f. 3 



L. H. C. & Sp. PI 



An, Ranunculo-affinis umbelliferis accedens ejufdem. Tab. ic6. f. 5 



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Codag 



H. M. p. 10. t. 46 



The Mountain Pennywortf 



Both thefe plants are frequent in Jamaica 

 and ftagnating waters about the lower lands 

 between Sixteen-mile-walk and St. Mary's. 



the former grows 



mar (lies 



the other is found in the mountains 



The root of the firjft fpecies is reckoned aperitive and deobft 



but all aqua 



plants of the umbelliferous clafs, are defervedly fufpected, and ieldom ufed in pre 



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