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LANTANA 4. Frutefcens fpinofa, foliis amplioribus fubrotundo-ovatis, pc- 



dunculis longifimis, foribus kermefnis. 

 Lantana yb/m oppoftis, caule ramofo acu/eato, forum capitulis umbellatis. L* 



Sp. PL 

 Viburnum Americanum fpinofum, &c. Pk. t. 114. f. 4. 



The prickly Lantana. 



Thefe fpecies of the Lantana are frequent in moft parts of Jamaica : they grow 

 chiefly in the hills, and lower lands ; but feldom rife above two, three, four, or five 



The fecond and third fpecies are uied by many people in America, 

 inftead of European Sage ; and are obferved to anivver the fame purpofes : but thefe 

 plants feem to be of a more active nature; and contain a large mare of refin. 



feet in height. 







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MONIERA 1. Minima r ep ens, foliis fubrotundis, foribus fngularibus ala- 





ribus. 



Tab. 28. f.^. 



The fmall creeping Mon/era. 



Periantium Heptaphyllum , foliolis lanceolatis , duobus exterioribus, late 



libus, anguftioribus, eretlo-patentibus, atate provecliori di 



bus intermediis, majoribus, ereclis & aqualit 



duis 



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orbem ftis , duobus vero interioribus, later alibus, angufior\ 

 bus, amplexantibus, exterioribus oppoftis. 

 Corolla Monopetala tubulato-campanulata -, tubus rc6lus, longitudine cat 



cis; limbus patulus, in quinque partes fere cequales fStus. 

 Stamina. Filament a quatuor, quorum duo longiora funt, tubum corolla fa 



.aquantes ; anthera? comprejfcz fubrotunda 





Piftillum. Get 







obtufi 



vat urn j Hy\usf mplex,- longitudine tubi corolla ; flig 



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Pericarpium. Capfula fee a ovata bilocularis, bivalvis, bifariam dehifc 

 Semina Plura parva, jepto medio incrajfato utrinque ajjixa. 





This little creeping pi 



y common in every ouzey fpot, about the harbou 



of King/Ion : it flicks very clofe to the earth, and cafls a few fibrous flender roots, fro 



as it creeps. The whole plant feldom exceeds (even or eig;ht inches 



ery joint 



length, ] 

 thick up 



ckoning from the firit 



but 



the 



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d j throwing 



generally in bed 



which 



pretty beautiful appearance 



few fimple fide-branches, from fp 



d fpreads 



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d makes 



exceedingly remarkable. It has a bitterifh tafte, and thrives beif in a low moid foil. 



The name of Moniera was given to this plant by Monf. Bernard de JuJJieu, who 



raifed it in the garden of Paris. Doctor Scbhjfer was kind enough to let me examine 



a fpecimen of it, with which he was favoured, among other curious productions, by 



worthy g 



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g the pi 



be the fame. I have 



rence to the author, continued the appellation he was pleafed to g 

 racters are fet down here as they appeared in the recent plant. 



, in defe 

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PH/ELYPEA 1. EreBa; foliis fejjili bus, angujlis, auritis, ad apicem ferra 



tts, oppoftis vet verticiilatis, foribus fngularibus ala 

 ribus. 

 Veronica caule hexangulari, foliis fat uria. Slo. Cat. 81. & H. t. 124* 

 An, Lifimachia galearica ejufdem, p. 66. 





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The erect: Phcelypea. 





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This plant is very common in the road between Paffage Fort and Spanifi Tow, 

 and grows chiefly in thofe floughs, where the mud has been worked up by the 



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