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ACUS MAXIMA, SQUAMMOSA, VIRIDIS. 
The green Gar-Fifo. 
Re H ESE Fifh arrive to three 
2 feet in length, 
armed with many fmall teeth : 
* the eyes were placed very 
ses the upper part of the body green, 
the belly pale red: it had fix fins, two 
under the fore-part of the belly, two under 
the hind-part of the belly, and one near 
the tail; oppofite to which, on the back, 
was another {maller one: ihe tail of an 
oval form, of a brick red colour, fprinkled 
with round black fpots, as were the two 
fins next the tail, and of the fame co- 
lour ; the other fins were of a fainter red. 
The whole body was covered with an in- 
* tire hard bony coat, divided into large 
{cales, which on the belly were- of an 
oblong fquare form, and placed obliquely. 
Thefe Fifh are found in ponds and frefh- 
waters rivers in Verginia. 
EGE ES Poiffons croiffent jufqu'a 
wns trois piés en longueur: leurs 
S bouches, ou plutét leurs becs 
Zz}, font tres longs, FP armés de 
ow LES lufieurs petites dents: les yeux 
ze celui-ci étorent placés fort bas: le deffus 
du corps étoit verd, &S le ventre d'un rouge 
le. Il avott fs x mageotres, deux fous la 
partie antérieure du ventre, deux fous la 
partie poflérieure du ventre, &S une proche 
la quetie: au deffus de celle-ci précifément 
il y en avoit une autre plus petite fur le dos: 
la queiie étoit ovale, d’un rouge couleur de 
brique, &S miouchetée de taches noires && 
rondes, de méme gue les deux nageoires 
proche de la queiie qui étotent auf de la mime 
couleur: les autres nageoires étotent dum 
rouge plus pale. Tout le corps étoit couvert 
d@une mig? dure &F offeufe, divifée Sous 
le ven a gran nudes écailles, qui étotent 
‘yilleoae cn wy oblongs, placés obliquement. 
On trouve ces Poiffous dans les é élangs EP Les 
rivieres eau douce @ la Virginie. 
Frutex aquaticus, floribus luteis, fructu rotundo quinque-capfulart. 
Plants grow ufually about twelve feet high, 
Il ftems, alternat 
Periantheums, fet on fhort footftalks; are hexapetalous, of 
deep yellow colour, with long Apices of th e colour 
ey grow in oO freth-water r ponds, in the woods o 
Virginia and Ca li and i e begi of February 
adorn the wo when few other plants appear in bloflom 
wers are fucceeded by fmall round Capfula’s, whic 
in March and April divide into four parts, and difclofe their 
, which are vet all; and being difperfed by the w 
into meas places, ae up very thick, and bloffom in a fhort 
tim 
YES Plantes sé ae Wang. Jufqea douze piés ou en- 
viron, avec une infinité de pets 
tiveme nesta fortes. de a 
gene feuilles lifes & pointues: les fleurs naiffent aux extremités 
re, & bg mi as les Sr ids rt pet 
les difperfe ; rs qe "elles to es endreits marecageux, 
elles y ne “to pais, Gy luis en peu de temps. 
