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Periantium 

 Corolla 



Pentaphyllum deciduum, folioJis color at is angufi, 



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Stamina. Filam 



Pentapetata, fetalis angujlis oblongis patentik 



tundce, 



duodecim, erefta, longitudine forts ; antherae fubro- 



obtufe trigcnum ; ftylus Jimplex longitudine 



Piftillum. Germen oblongum, 



Jlaminum ; ftigma obtufi 

 Pericarpium. Capfula oblonga prifmatica obtufe trigona trilocula 



Sem 



lis bifulcatis verrucofi. 

 Plura fubrotunda triplici ferie difpofi, 



angu 



This plant is a native of J 



but not 



common 



The item and 



; the leaves are 



branches are very flender, and rife two or three feet above the root, 

 roundifh, jagged, and undulated, and the bark of a brown colour. 



Though I am very uncertain of the genus of this plant, which feems to claim a 



.veen the Bartramia and the Triumfetta y the difpofition of the petals 

 and filaments induced me to range it with the latter; but I am fatisfied, from the 

 natural habit of both, that they do belong more properly to the next clafs. 



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TRIUMFETTA 2. Villofa y foliis infer ioribus angulato-ovatisjferrato-dentat 



jioribus ternatis\ fafciculis geminatis^foliis fuboppofn 



Triumfetta. Plum 



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Triumfetta 



Agrimonia lapp 



L. H. C. & Sp. PI 



Lappula Bermudienjis, &c. Pk 



inodora y &c. Slo. Cat. 92. & H 



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The Bur-Bark. 



Periantium Pentaphyllum , foliolis lanceolato-linearibus ; prima at ate, ere- 



Bis, & agglutinatis, proveBiori vero patentibus, deciduis. 

 Corolla Pentapetala, pet alls angujlis ereBo-patentibus. Nectarium: glan 



Stam 



dula minima fingulares, ad infertiones petalorum fi 



Filamenta duodecim 



tudine fi< 



therae cord, 



& oBodecim, ereBa, fimph 



long 





Piftillum. Germen minimum fubrotundum; ftylus ereBus Jimplex, long 





dine ft 



ftigma obtujiufculum 



Pericarpium. Capfula fubrotunda quadrilocularis, ab apice ad me diet at em 



Sem 



fetis validis 

 Solitaria, quandoque dupl 



Obf The anther a are always of the form of a heart in the flowers of this plant ; and 



the bloflbms, which generally grow in two diftinct parcels near the alae of 

 the leaves, are fuftained by a few narrow ftipula?, that perform the office 



of an Invotucrum \ and half the capfula is echinated 



other fmooth 



The plant is common in J 



feven feet, where the foil 



rich 



r, and rifes frequently to the height of fix or* 

 d well fupplied with moiftu: 



The 



and tender bud 



when 



fufed for any 



in water, yield 



fine 



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ent. The bark i 

 d ferves for ropes, and other little conveniencies of that kind 



from whence we may conclude it to be an excellent emoll 

 nd ftrong 



among thofe that inhabit the inland parts of the country 



PORTULACA 1. Foliis cuneiformibus, floribus fejjilibus. L.Sp.Pl 





Purllane. 



This is one of the moft common plants in all the fug 

 very troublefome weed in the gardens and cane-pieces. 



Ppp 



and frequently 



It is never ferved up 



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