p. 68 
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Lhe Lion Lizard. 
<2 five or fix inches long; they 
< are all over of a grey colour, 
© but ftreaked with lines of a 
ANOS a lighter grey: the legs are long. 
¥t cocks its tail with a round twirl, and 
looks fierce, from which it may perhaps 
have taken its Ezg//b name. They are 
inoffenfive, frequenting the rocks on the 
fea-fhores of Cuba, Hifpaniola, &c. They 
are nimble, and run with {urprifing fwift- 
nefs, yet are a prey to fea-gulls and other 
gavenous birds. 
GRIS £7 3S, 
Lézard Lion. 
Dae ES Lézards, qui font ordinaire- 
Lair fier; && ceft peut-étre de la quils tirent 
leur nom Anglots. Ms ne font point dangereux: 
ils fe tiennent dans les rochers fur le bord de 
la Mer des iles de Cuba, de St. Domingue, ° 
&Pc. Lls font agiles, &F courent d’une viteffe 
Juprénante, &S cependant ils font la proye des 
mouettes, &S dautres oifeaux de proye. 
VISCUM Caryophylloides, foliis longis in apice incifis, floris labello albo trifido, 
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petals lutets, longis anguftiffimis. 
HESE Plants. ufually grow to the height of 
about eighteen inches, with one, and fome- 
times two upright ftalks, bearing long leaves, 
notched at the ends, alternately placed on them, 
the foot or bafis of the leaf encompafling the ftalk : 
on the top of this Plant fhoot forth two footftalks ; 
on one was placed a flower, and on the other a 
feed-veflel, fully formed. The flowers confifted of 
five long narrow yellow petals placed on the ova+ 
i which was {welling towards the 
upper end, of a pale green colour: from the center 
of the five petals grew a cylindrical fucculent white 
ftem;. from the top of which fhoot forth three other 
white . petals, the middlemoft of which was longeft. 
in membranes, and the withered Hower 
remained at the top. 
ES Plantes croiffent ordinairement julgea la 
hauteur de dix huit pouces, av 
fleur, & 
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s fur un ovaire qui etoi 
verd pile, & s enfloit vers fon fommet: il s elevoit dik 
petales blancs, de 
long. autre _tige portoit a fon 
égales, & étoient divifees par des membranes minces 
la fleur toute fannée étoit encore attachée au haut de ce 
vaiffeau. 
