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2 KIDNEY-LEAVED $HEEP ROT, 
| | Plate 10. Fig. 1. 
Character of the Species, : — ‘Hydtocotyle Americana, 
The Leaves are roundifh, {lightly lobated ; and have a flit in the Front, 
which reaches quite to the Centre. 
: | Fig. 1. b: 
Tuis is a Perennial, nativé of North America, and flowers in June. It creeps upon the 
ground, with pale, flender Stalks, irregularly extending themfelves every way. The Roots 
are little Tufts of flight and fhort white Fibres at the Joints; from which the Leaves and, 
Flowers rife alfo. The Leaves are of a delicate, but not’ {trong green on the upper fide ; 
and paler underneath. The Flowers are fmall and white. | | 
Ir will be obferved, that we retain the received trivial Latin names of all the Species in 
the Margin; but the reader will be juft ¢nough to underftand, that we retain them cs 
convenient, rather than good ones ; and though we ufe them, we by no means approve. 
them. They are a kind of fimple, thort notices of Plants, which though they might eafily 
have been better, as in this inftance (for why thould this Species be called American, more 
than the former?) yet will ferve the purpofe as they are. They are appellations in which 
the Botanic world at prefent, feem to be agreed ;-and they ferve here inftead of a mul- 
titude of Synonyma, often as bad as themfelves ; fo 
r they make a kind of catalogue, to 
which every modern book is an Index. - | | 
Ir is the more proper for us to retain them, becanfe we often find it neceflary in 
compliance with the natural characters of a Plant, to change its Genus ; but this, by the 
help of the trivial key, is always to be underitood by thofé who chufe to confult other 
Authors, without confufion, SOE 3 3 | 
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z Plate 10. Fig, 2. ) | 
Charaéter of the Species, | aisolip s - Hydroeetyle Afiatica, 
~The Leaves ate arrowed with a Kidney-thaped Bale; and many rife to- 
| | gether at a joint. . oe 3 
| | a Fig. 2. ab. 
Tus isa Perennial, native of the Eaft Indies, a low Plant, but very leafy, sd thee. 
fore exceedingly confpicuous on the ground ; flowering in May. ‘The Stalks are weak 
and tender; the Leaves are of a very fine and freth green. The Flowers are white and 
inconfiderable. | | | 
Au THORS were by no means agreed to what Genus to refer this Plant ee fome time. | 
Herman ‘ underftood it to be a kind of Corn Sallad (I am afraid it would have proved a 
fatal one ;) and Plukenet 8 thought it of the family of Crowfoots. ; 
€ Par, Bat: 238% 3 : ® Alm. 314. 
