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There were growing on the fand hills, environ- 
ing; Penfacola, feveral curious non-defcribed plants ; 
particularly one of the verticillate order, about 
eighteen inches in height : the flowers, which form- 
ed loofe fpikes, were large and of a fine fcarlet 
colour $ but not having time to examine the fructi- 
fication, or colled; good fpecimens, I am ignorant 
of what order or genus it belongs to. And in 
the level wet favannas grew plentifully a new and 
very elegant fpecies of Saracinia (Saracinia lacuno- 
fa) ; the leaves of this plant, which are twelve or 
fourteen inches in length, ftand nearly ered:, are 
round, tubular and ventricofe — -but not ridged with 
longitudinal angles or prominent nerves, as the 
leaves of the Saracinia flava are ; the aperture at 
top may be fhut up by a cap or lid, of a helmet 
form, which is an appendage of the leaf, turning 
over the orifice in that fingular manner ; the ventri- 
cofe, or inflated part of the leaf, which is of a pale, 
but vivid green colour, is beautifully ornamented 
with rofe coloured fluds or blifters, and the inner 
furface curiouily infcribed, or variegated, with crim- 
fon veins or fibres. It was pad the time for flower- 
ing, but the plant in any fituation is a very great 
curiofity. 
Next morning early we arofe from our hard 
fandy fea-beaten couch, being diflurbed the whole 
night by the trouble fome mufquitoes ; fet fail, and 
before night returned fafe to the city of Mobile. 
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