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drink, half a pint of it every morning, either alone or mixed with any other 

 drink. He assured me it cured hiin, and several others in the same ship. 



42. Spike-flowered meadow-sweet. 43. Gentiana major Virginiana, fioribus 

 amplis ochroleucis, Pluk. tab. 186, fig. 1 et Aim, Bot. ]66, These leaves are 

 very like those of sope-wort, and stand crosswise, or alternately opposite, con- 

 voluting the stalk, which is round. Its flowers one inch and three quarters 

 long, and pale, growing towards the top of the stalk: its calyx half an inch 

 deep, and then divides into five narrow greenish beards, three quarters of an 

 inch long, reaching almost to the dents or lower angles of the flower. 



44. Gentiana major Virgmiana, flore caeruleo longiore, Morrison, tab. inedit. 

 fig. These leaves stand also opposite, like the last, but are much narrower? 

 and glaucous underneath. The flowers blue, and broader at the top than the 

 last; and the segments or angles not so sharp nor deeply indented ; the calyx 

 like the other, but the foliaceous beards shorter. 



45. Erinus Marianus fere umbellatus, Majoranae folio. 46. Perfoliate Venus 

 looking-glass. Speculum Veneris perfoliatum sen viola pentagonia perfoliata, 

 Raii H. pi. 743. Campanula pentagonia perfoliata, Morrison, H. Ox. 457. sect. 5, 

 tab. 2, fig. 23. 47. American scarlet cardinal-flower. Flos Cardinalis Barbe- 

 riniColl. in Hernand, 880, fig. Card, seu Trachelium Americanum, H. L. Bat. 

 et H. Groning. 48. Morrison's Virginiana blue cardinal-flower. Ranunculus 

 galeatus Virginianus, flore violaceo majore, Morrison. H. Ox. 4t)6. Sect. 5, tab. 

 fig. 35. 49. Digitalis Mariana Persicae folio. This I take to be the humming 

 bird tree, figured in Josselin's New-England Rarities. These leaves stand 

 opposite, on half inch footstalks, above four inches long and three quarters 

 broad. 



50. Digitalb Mariana filipendulas folio. The flowers of this elegant plant 

 stand on naked footstalks, near an inch long ; they generally grow by pairs, 

 one against the other, each divided into five equal round segments, like those 

 of yellow tobacco, but three times larger ; these are set in a calyx, whose di- 

 visions are fimbriated like a lobe or wing of its leaves. Its style is thready, and 



about an inch long. 51. Alecto Marianus blattarise folio. These 



leaves are deeply cut into 8 or 10 serrated lobes, which for the most part stand 

 opposite; each leaf is about the length of the footstalk it stands on, viz. if full 

 grown, 5 inches, or thereabout. Its seed vessels are oblong pointed husks, 

 which open on the upper edge : they grow in a spike on each side the stalk, and 

 are guarded, especially the upper side, with a hoary membranaceous calyx. 



52. Crateogonon Marianum flore caeruleo. 53. Turritis Maritna siliquis 

 dependentibus, uno versu dispositis. The pods are about 2 inches long, flat, 

 somewhat crooked, and end as it were in a blunt spine, they stand on half inch 



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