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coming out of opposite sides of the middle rib or stalk, of 

 a glue or darkish yellow colour, which did not crackle under 

 the teeth. They look just like feathers, and were more 

 thick branched and set with twigs than any other of the 

 Abies-Marina-Belgica kind I ever saw. 



" I found this thrown up by the waves on the shore of 

 the Island of Madeira, near the town of Funchal. 



" Lenticula palustris sextet vel JEgyptiaca, sive stratiotes aqua- 

 tica foliis sedo majore latioribus, C. B. Pin., p. 362. 



" I found this plant either in the Island of Madeira or 

 Barbadoes floating on the water, having several capillary 

 brown fibres for its roots, and appearing nerves on the 

 upper sides of the leaves, which, because it seems to differ 

 very little from that of Alpinus, this not being Hirsute, I 

 take to be the same, and his differing from that of Ves- 

 lingius, but in little, I think them not to be two plants. 



" It is used for the same diseases as plantain, either 

 outwardly or inwardly, in juice or the powder to a drachm. 



" Because there is no account of the seeds of this, or 

 whether it has any or no, I think this a more proper name 

 for it than that of Stratiotes. 



" Pistia Stratiotes. Linn. Spec. pi. 1365. 

 " (Not found in Madeira.) 



" Hemionitis Asari folio, Cat. pi. Jam., p. 14. 



"The root of this most elegant plant was made up of 

 many brown fibrils, which, towards the surface of the earth, 

 were covered with a ferruginebus down, the stalks were 

 many from the same root, blackish, round, and shining, 

 about seven inches high, on the top of which was a round 

 leaf, exactly like that of Asarum, about two inches diameter, 

 having veins running from the top of the foot-stalk as from 



