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356 THE NATURAL HISTOR 



The fmall fhrubby Acidoton, 



Flores, in aliis mafculini, in a His fern 



Mas ? 





Femina. 



Pcriantium Nullum. 



Corolla Pentapetala, vel monopetala in quinque lacinias cvatas ad bafim 



feci a \ /acini is binis major ibus. Stamina Nulla. 

 Pi/1 ilium. Germen ovatum-, flyli tres % reflexi, bifurcati; fligmata oblonga. 

 Pericarpium ? 



This little fhrub is pretty common in the Savannas about New Greenwich, where 

 it feidom rifes above four feet in height. The branches are very {lender and iiexile, 

 and the leaves fmall and delicate; and fhoot, with the flowers, early in Apr -i 7 or M ay. 

 The whole plant has a good deal of the appearance of a young E^bony. 





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BATIS i. Maritima erecla, ramcfa -> foliolis f accident is, fubcyUndricis. 

 Kali fruticofum coniferum, flore albo. Slo. Cat. 50. 



The Samphire of Jamaica, 



Flores, in aliis mafculini, in aliis feminini. 





Mas. 

 Flores mafculini per /picas pyramidatas fquamis quadruplici or dine imbri- 



cat as, difpofiti fit nt . 

 Periantium Proprium nullum. 

 Corolla Nulla, niji vagi nu las membranaceas irregulares fquamis inter- 



pofitas, pro fori bus habere vis. 



Stamina. Efingulis fquamarum interjlitiis, fufgunt f lamina quatuor ereffia, 



fquamis long/or a, ant her is triangularibus fubfagittatis, inflrucla. 



Faemina. 



Periantium Commune diphy Hum, in caput collegit embryones plures 



ter & duodecim) fucculentos, & inyicem agglutinos ; qui, 

 tandem, in unum corpus jubaquale, obkngo-ovatum redatli 

 funt. Proprium nullum. 

 Corolla Nulla. Stamina Nulla. 



Piftillum. Germen Jiicculentum, minimum, proximis fubadnatum, quadran- 

 gular e\ ftylus nullus j ftigma obtufum s fub-bilobum, villofum. 

 Pericarpium. Acina tot idem f accident a t adnata, femini bus bints comprejjis 



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Receptaculum Commune oblongum, acinas omnes in unum colligit. 



This plant is common in all the Salinas on the fouth fide of "Jamaica: it abounds 

 th alkalious falts, but the manufacture of this commodity has not been yet 



pted in that ifland ; wh 

 foap or glafi 



have been hitherto ufed to make 



VISCUM 1. Parafiticum, ramulis verticillatis y foliolis cbov. 



baccis tridentatis. 

 Vifcum caule verticillato. L. Sp. PI. 

 Wcum Gerh. emacul. Slo. Cat. 168. 



The Miiletoe, with verticillated branches. 

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