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F.EV ER W:O;RiT. 
DORSTENITIA. 
CharaGter of the Genus. | | 3 
The Head is flat, and compofed of many Flowers ; the general Cup is 
entire, flat, and undivided at the Edge. | 
Plate 7.0. 4. 
fh Ueee T-LEAV'’D FEVER WO RT. 
; Plate 7. Fig. 1. 
Character of the Species. ae : | : 2 | Dorftenia Alexiteria, 
The Leaves are Heart-fhaped, fharp pointed, and indented ; and the Head 
| is {quared, and wav’d along the Edge. 
| ; Fig. 1.a5, 
Tus is a Perennial, native of Campeachy ; and flowers in May. A Plant of moft ex 
treme fingularity, refembling nothing in the whole Vegetable world, except two other | 
Species of the fame Genus ; and of qualities as peculiar as its form. The Leaves are 
three or four inches long, and rife feparately from the ground, with long flender Foot- 
ftalks, They are ofa fine bright green; but the colour foon fades, and they become 
brown, and droop. The Stalk, which fupports the Head, rifes naked and fimple from 
the Root, and is flender, and ten inches high. At its top ftands a flat head of F lowers, 
half buried in a {pungy receptacle of a {quare form, which fills the bofom of the Cup, 
and grows into one body with it. The colour of the Receptacle is pale; and the Flowers 
are of a whitith green. They are {mall, one leaved, and inclofed in a little Cup, which 
_ grows to them, as the Cup does to the Receptacle; fo that they are very difficultly {e- 
parated or examined. Hence has arifen the difficulty of giving a true character of the 
Plant, by thofe, whofe fyftems made it neceflary to introduce every part. 
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2 PINNATIFID FEVERWORT. 
) Plate 7. Fig. 2. 
_ CharaGer of the Species, : ~ Dorftenia Drakena, 
The Leaves are cut almoft to the middle Rib, into a few Segments, with 
entire Edges ; the Head is oval. 
: , Fig.2. ab. 
_ Tuts alfo is a Perennial, native of Vera Cruz, and other parts of the Spanith Weft- 
_ Indies ; a Plant not at all lefs fingular than the preceding ; and flowers in June. The 
_ Leaves are of a deep ftrong green; they rife fingly from the ground, with long Foot- 
ftalks, to the height of about eight inches. The Stalk which {upports the Head, is 
about feven inches high, naked and flender. The head is green, and the Flowers are of 
a greenifh white. . 
3 EN GER ED 
