The V E G E TAB L E SYSTEM. 
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This is a Perennial, native of North-America : the Stalk is of a 
greyifh green, and fmooth : the Leaves are of a bluifh green, and 
their furface is glofiy. The Flowers are very fmall and whitifh. 
6. K I D N E Y-L EAV’D HORSEFOOT. 
Plate log. Fig. 6. 
Character of the Species. Cacalia A If ina. 
The Leaves are kidney fhaped, and fharply ferrated. 
Fig. 6. a b . 
This is a Perennial, native of the mountains of Swifierland : the 
Stalk is robuft, upright, and tinged with crimfon : the Leaves are 
very delicate, thin, and of a frelh green, but acute and indented. 
The Flowers lland at the tops of the Branches, and are final I, and 
of a pale crimfon. 
It is fingular, that the Florets of the Cacalia are cut only into 
four Segments inflead of five : but this holds good in the fhrubby, 
as well as the herbaceous kinds ; and is univerfal in the Genus. We 
find it occafionally in fome Species of the other Genera, but not with 
this determinate regularity. 
SERIES II. 
SHRUBBY HORSEFOOT. 
7. OVAL HORSEFOOT. 
Plate 1 10. Fig. 7. 
Character of the Species. Cacalia antieuphorbium dicta. 
The Leaves are oval, and three lines run from them down 
the Stem. 
Fig. 7. a b. 
This is a tall fucculent Plant, native of ^Ethiopia. The bafe of 
the Stem is hard and brown : the Shoots are very thick, green, juicy, 
and tender. We fee it but imperfectly in this unnatural climate; 
but in its original foil, it is dole fet along all thefe young Shoots, 
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