8 + 
The vegetable SYSTEM. 
pleafing colour, a pale blulfh green; fuch as we fee oa many of the 
fea riants. The Flowers are yellow. 
14. WEDGE- LEAV’D SEGGROM. 
Plate 1 7'^*. Fig. 14. 
Character of the Species. Othonna dendata. 
The Leaves are of an oval form, but broad and wedgy at 
the ends. 
Fig. 14. a. b. 
This is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, a bufliy Plant, with 
a hard Stem, flowering in Augufl: : the old Bark is greyilh : the 
Branches are of a pale green: the Leaves are alfo of a pale but frefli 
green; and the P'lowers are large, and, of a very beautiful yellow. 
Firmnefs of the Stalks in thefe lafl: Seggroms is not to place 
them among Trees and Shrubs : they are properly woody Plants: 
the Cape affords a number of like flrufture, and even Europe is not 
deflitute of them; nor is this limited to the Perennial Plants: we 
have Annuals wdiofc Stems are abfolutely woody. The fhorcs of 
France and Sicily fliew it in the Buboniums, which will he deferibed 
hereafter, page 40. and Boccone has not unjiiflly added it to the 
diflindlive charadters of one of them. His Afier Supinus Lignofus is 
an Annual ; the Footftalk’d Bubonium of our fuceeding ; 74 Plate, 
Fig. 3. and we flaall have occafion to fhew more inflances. 
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