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all obli(iuely tending towards the 

 extremity of tlie footstalk : tliey 

 retain their green all winter. Tlie 

 large leafed thorn, has a leaf 

 about two inches and a half long, 

 which is petiolate, and conjugate: 

 the leaflets are petiolate, acutely 

 pointed, having their margins cut 

 with unequal and irregular inci- 

 sures : the shrub, whicli we had 

 once mistaken for the large leaf- 

 ed thorn, resembled the stem of 

 that shrub, excepting the thorn : 

 it bears a large three headed leaf: 

 the briaris of the class polyandria, 

 and order poligynia: the Howers 

 are single : the peduncle long 

 and cylindrical : the calyx is a pe- 

 rianth, of one leaf, five cleft, and 

 acutely ])ointed : the perianth is 

 proper, erect, inferior in both pe- 

 tals and gonnen : the corolla 

 consists of live acute, pule scar- 

 let p-etals, inserted in the recep- 

 tacle with a short and narrow 

 deft: the corolla is smooth, mo- 

 derately long, situated at tlie base 

 of the germen, permanent, and in 

 shnpe resembling a cup : the sta- 

 mens and filaments are subu- 

 late, inserted into the receptacle, 

 imequal and bent inwards, con- 

 cealing the pptilium : the anther 

 is two lobeci and inflnted, situated 

 on the top of the filament of the 

 pystilium : the germ is conical, 

 imbricated, superir)r, sessile and 

 short . the styles are short, com- 

 pared with tire st«ainon, capillary, 

 smooth and obtuse : they are dis- 

 tributed over the surface of tlie 

 germ, and deciduous without any 

 perceptible stamen . 



T- The green bnar grows most 

 abundantiy in rich dry lands, in 

 the vicinity of a water-course, and 

 is found in small quantities in 

 pinj' lands at a distance fi'ym the 



water. In tlic former situation 

 the stem is frequently of the size 

 of a man's finger, and rises per- 

 pendicularly four or live feet : it 

 tlieu descends in an arch, becomes 

 procumbent, or rests on some 

 neighbouring plants : it is simple, 

 unbranched, and cylindric : in the 

 latter situation it grows much 

 smaller, and usually procumbent: 

 the stem is armed ^vith sharp and 

 forked briars : the leaf is petio- 

 late, ternate, and resembles in 

 shape and a];pe:tranec (hat of the 

 purple raspberiy, so common to 

 the Atlantic states : the fruit is a 

 berry resembling the blai kberry 

 in all points, and is eaten when 

 ripe by the natives, which they 

 hold in much esteem^ althoxigh it 

 is not dried for winter consump- 

 tion. This shrub was first 

 discovered at the entrance of 

 Quicksand ri^er : it grows so 

 abundantly in the fertile valley of 

 Columbia, and the islands, that 

 the country is alnnost impenetra- 

 ble : it retains its verdure late in 

 simitncr. 



8. Hcsidcs tlie fern already de- 

 scribed, as furnishing a nutritious 

 iHX)t, there are two other plants 

 of the same species, v,hich may 

 be divided into the large and the 

 small : the large fern rises three 

 or four feet . the stem is a com- 

 mon footstalk, proceeding imme- 

 diately from the radix, somewhat 

 flat, about the size of a man's 

 arm, and covered with innumer- 

 able black coarse cajjillary radicles 

 issuing from every part of its sur- 

 face : one of these roots will send 

 forth from twenty to forty of these 

 common footstalks, bending otit- 

 wards from the common centre : 

 the ribs are cylindric, and mark- 

 ed longitudiu;Uly their whole 



; length. 



