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‘Plate 8. Fig. 1. 
Character of the Species. . Dorftenia Contrayerva. 
The Leaves are pinnatifid, viel a ‘Gndaoid spits and the Segments are 
ae : the Head i is ianets, and undivided at the Edge. 
Fi “ 1.4. 
THIs is a Perennial alfo,. native of hae and flowers in May; a Plant agreeing in its 
manner of growth with the two preceding. _ The Leaves are eight or ten inches high ; 
they grow fingly from the ground, on long flender naked Footftalks. ‘They are of a 
faint green ; and their Stalk and the middle Rib, are often brown or reddifh. The 
‘Head is perfectly fquare, flat, and undivided at the edge ; it is of a green colour; and 
the Flowers are alfo of a greenifh white. The Stalk, which fupports this, is fimple, 
naked, flender, and brown ; and is about eight inches high. 
Tue root of this third kind, is the Chabipaeeened by Apothecaries : and a much larger 
quantity than they employ, is confumed in dying. The three Plants are fo like, and the | 
people who collect Drugs fo negligent, that the Roots of them all are gathered under this 
name; as the Roots of three or more Plants, are ufed under the name of Virginian Snake- 
weed ; or, as the Swifs wound Herbs, confift of every Plant they lay their hands upon. 
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Plate 8... Pigs, 4. 
Character of the Species. | $ Dorftenia Caulefcens. 
The > Leagan ate lane’d; and the mae are te 
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Ley 7 Fig, 2, ab. 
THis isa Perennial, holder, Campeachy ; ide it grows ¢ on the moft barren rocks, to | 
the height of two or three feet : A Plant altogether unlike the three preceding in its ge- 
neral ates but having the fame wonderful kind of Head as _ have. 
= STHE Stalk j is weak, reddith, and bene ; and has but few Bites The Leaves are 
“broad, but of a lanced fhape ; ; and waved at the Edge. The Heads do not rife on pe- 
culiar Stalks from the ground, as in the three preceding kinds, but one Stalk produces 
a great many : each is placed on a flender Footftalk, growing from the bofom of a Leaf. 
The Heads are greenifh, and the Flowers are whitith, but nearly of their own colour. It 
flowers in Auguft.- 
Narure feldom | varies fo extremely i in the Spectes of the fife eines as in this 
Plant ; but the genuine character is fo abfolute, and fo wonderfully diftin@ from all 
others, that there carte | no doubt about the joining them. 
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