atpendix.] SIR HANS SLOANE S LIST OF PLANTS. 143 



prickly ends, very like the Persicaria pusilla repens. Ger. 

 emac, only the stalks much longer. 



" It grows in the Island of Madeira in a river's bank half 

 a mile beyond the town of Funchal towards the mountain. 



" Polygonum Polincoba. H. Ind. Occ. 



"(Polygonum Hydropiper, Linn., is not uncommon in Ma- 

 deira, but Polygonum Minus, to which this description seems 

 to point, does not occur there now.) 



" Blitum vulgare minus surrectum. Munt.pl. Cult., p. 291. 

 " Found in the Island of Madeira, near Funchal, and dif- 

 fering in nothing from the ordinary wild, small, white 

 Blite, only it is more erect. 



"Amaranthus Blituin. Linn. Sp. pi. 1405. 



"Psyllium majus erectum, C. B., J. B. RaiiHist., p. 881. 

 " (Eclipta Erecta. Linn.) 



" Convolvulus altliea foliis Clus., rar. pi. Hist., lib. iv. p. 49. 

 " I found this plentifully near Funchal. It is good to 

 cure wounds, Clus. 



" (Convolvulus Althseoides. Linn.) 



" Salvia major, folio glauco, serrato. Cat. pi. Jam., p. 64. 

 '• This hath square, whitish, glaucous stalks, rising two or 

 three feet high, having two leaves standing opposite to one- 

 another, on inch foot-stalks, being two inches long, and 

 one broad near the base where broadest, being cut in very 

 deep on the edges, of a dirty green colour on the upper 

 side, and very white underneath, having one middle, and 

 several transverse ribs. 



" It grew near Funchal, where I gathered it without 

 flowers or seed, so that I am not able to determine its 



