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The vegetable SYSTEM* 79 
GENUS IL 
S E G G R O M. 
O T H O N N A. 
Charafler of the Genus. 
The Cup is even on the Surface j and is cut into eight 
Segments at the edge. 
Plate 16. Fig. a a. 
I. KIDNEY-LEA V’D SEGGROM. 
PL i6. Fig. I. 
Ciiarafter of the Species. Othonna geifolia. 
The Leaves are rounded, funk in at the Footftalk, and 
indented about the edge. 
Fig. I. a. 
T his is a fmall, perennial, creeping Plant ; native of the hot- 
ter parts of Africa. The bottom of the Stem is hard, tho’ 
but weak; leaning, and trailing on the ground, but this way crawl- 
ing to the length of two feet or more. The Leaves are of a brownilh 
green, and the whole Plant has fo much of the alpedt of Ground-Ivy, 
both in their form, and in its manner of growth, that one is furprif- 
ed to fee upon it radiated Flowers. They are of a delicate yellow; 
and blow all Summer. 
2. EGG-LEA V’D SEGGROM 
Plate 16. Fig. 2. 
Charadter of the Species. Othonna Bulbofa, 
The Leaves are of the fliape of an egg ; the Stalk is ten- 
der to the bottom. 
Fig. 2. a. b. 
T HIS alfo is a Perennial, though a weak, low Plant : we have it from 
the fame warm climate with the other ; for Nature fpreads it over 
the ^Ethiopian fands in great profufion The Leaves are bright green, 
and the Flowers gold yellow. The weak Stalk rifes but to eight or 
ten 
