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1. Broad-leaved Oldenlandia, 
Oldenlandia foliis latioribus. 
The root is compofed of a few fmall fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, flender, and 
in great part procumbent: they take root at the 
joints as they lic, and by this means fpread the 
plant abundantly, 
The leaves are placed in pairs, and have fhort 
footftalks : they are oblong, broad, and of a faint 
green: they are largeft in the middle, pointed at 
the ends, and not at all notched at the edges. 
The flowers grow in the bofoms of the leaves: 
they are placed on fhort footftalks, one flower on 
each; and they are fmall and white. 
The feed-veffel is large, and contains a number 
of fmall, brown feeds. 
It is frequent in North America in damp places. 
Tt flowers in June. : 
Plukenet calls it Aine aquatica major repens 
Virginiana foliis acuminatis. Others, Oldenlandia 
uniflora, from the flowers ftanding fingly on the 
footftalks in this {pecies ; they fupporting more 
in the others. 
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2. Narrow-leaved Oldenlandia. - 
Oldenlandia anguftifolia. 
The root is fmall, oblong, and furnifhed With 
many fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, flender, round, firm, 
upright, and branched : they are of a brownifh 
colour, and brittle. 
The leaves are placed in pairs, and have tufts 
of young ones, or the rudiments of branches, 
in their bofoms all the way up the ftalk: they: 
aré long, narrow, and fharp-pointed; and are 
of a dufky green. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks, and 
of fhoots rifing from the bofoms of the upper 
leaves, in clufters like little umbells; and they are 
fmall. 
The feed-veffel is large, and the feeds are nu- 
merous and little, 
Plukenet calls it Ly/imachie offinis faturie fulio 
madera [patenfis capfilis in fumitate Sere umbellatis, 
Others, Oldenlandia umbellata. 
Its virtues are not known: 
Us V. 
AMMANIA. 
HE flower confifts of four petals regularly difpofed, and inferted into the 
is round, and contains four cells: the cup is hollow, 
cup: the feed-veffel 
ftriated, and quadrangular : it is divided 
into eight fegments at the edge, and four of thefe are fhorter than the others, and are turned back 
Linnzeus places this among the setrandria monogynia; the threads in the centre of the flower being 
four, and the ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingle. ig 
Narrow-leaved Ammania, 
Aminania foliis anguptis. 
The root is long, flender, divided, and fur- 
nifhed with numerous fibres. 
The ftalk is round, upright, firm, and ex- 
tremely branched: it is of a redifh colour, and 
tough and its branches are extremely long and 
flender. 
~The leaves are placed in ‘pairs, and they are 
oblong, very narrow, fharp-pointed, and with- 
out footftalks. 
The flowers are placed in clufters in the bofoms 
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of the leaves; and they are fmall, and of a 
bright yellow : the plant when in flower makes 
a beautiful appearance ; for it is covered at the 
Joints from the root to the very top. 
The feed-veffels are round and fmall; and .the 
feeds are minute and numerous. 
It is a native of the Eaft Indies, and flowers 
in June. : 
Plukenet calls it Anonymos linarie folio orien. 
talis Gallii. lute: flore:herba capfularis verticillata, 
Its virtues are unknown, 
VI. 
WiA IER CALTROP, 
TRAP YZ, 
HE flower confifts of four petals regularly difpofed: the feed-veffel-is of an ob] 
very hard, and contains only a fingle cell ; and it is armed with four fharp th " 
made of a fingle piece divided into four narrow fegments:: peice 
become the thorns of the feed-veffel. 
Linnzus places this.among the tetrandria MmOnOg nia 5 
four, and the ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingle 
This author has taken away its common name ¢ribulys aquatica, and calls it 7 : 
proper, becaufe another-plant.of a very different genus is called eae terreftri oe i 
the name ¢rapa; keeping with it the Englith received name water caltrop, 4 
the fegments hardening, 
Of this genus there is but one known fpecies. 
2. 
ig oval form, 
i S$: the cup is 
it remains after the flower is fallen; and 
the threads in the centre of the flower being 
this is very 
We have retained 
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