143 SIR HANS SL0ANES LIST OF PLANTS. [appendix. 



" Urtica, caule lignoso,foliis tenuioribus atrovirentibus. Cat. 

 pi. Jam., p. 38. 



" This had an upright, cornered, woody stem, solid, and 

 having a fungous pith, being covered with a smooth, 

 reddish brown bark, rising two or three feet high, having 

 joints and branches set opposite to one another, and on 

 which stand, likewise opposite to one another, at the joints 

 the leaves on three-quarters of an inch long foot-stalks. 

 They are very thick set with burning small prickles, being 

 an inch long, and three-quarters broad at round base where 

 broadest, from whence they decrease to their ends, being 

 very much cut in, on the edges thin, and of a dark green 

 colour. 



" Urtica urens var. Linn. Sp. pi. 1396. 

 " (Potius, Urtica elevata. Lowe.) 



" Persicaria procumbens longissima, angustifolia,non maculosa, 

 spica longioH, laxiori, et graciliori. Cat.pl. Jam., p. 48. 



" The root of this plant has several protuberances here 

 and there, as also great numbers of reddish brown strings 

 or filaments scattered up and down in the muddy ground. 

 The stalks are spread round, trailing on the surface of the 

 earth for about four feet in length. They are round, 

 reddish, smooth, jointed at every inch's interval, having a 

 swelling at every joint, and near the top one leaf exactly 

 like that of the ordinary Hgdropiper, only much narrower 

 and longer. The flowers stand on foot stalks, ex alisfol., 

 and on the top of the branches, like those of the ordinary 

 Arsmart, only they are not so closely put together, but 

 more lax and slender ; and to them follows in a green husk 

 a small, shining, black seed, angular, and having two 



