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inclines to a dark colour, and is speckled as in Tithymalus 

 characia : the speckles are simply the remains of leaves 

 which have fallen off. Meanwhile a thick pedicel covered 



Text-fig. 60. "Battata VirgmULna." = Soianum tuberostim L., Potato 

 [Gerard, The Herball, 1597]. 



with leaves springs out from the top of the larger branches, 

 and bears, so to speak, a thyrsus of many yellow flowers, 



