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The VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
3. FINGERED FEVER WORT. 
Plate 8. Fig. i. 
Character of the Species. . Dorftenia Contrayerva. 
The Leaves are pinnatifid, with a fingered afpedt, and 
the Segments are ferrated : the Head is fquare, and un- 
divided at the Edge. 
Fig. I . a b. 
This is a perennial alfo, native of Peru, and flowers in May; a 
Plant agreeing in its manner of growth with the two preceding. The 
Leaves are eight or ten inches high ; they grow fingly from the ground, 
on long (lender naked Footftalks. They are of a faint green ; and 
their Stalk and the middle Rib, are often brown or reddifb. The 
Head is perfectly fquare, flat, and undivided at the edge ; it is of a 
green colour ; and the Flowers are alfo of a greenifh white. The Stalk* 
which fupports this, is Ample, naked, (lender, and brown ; and is about 
eight inches high. 
The root of this third kind, is the Contrayerva ufed by Apothe- 
caries : and a much larger quantity than they employ, is confumed in dy- 
ing. The three Plants are fo like, and the people who colled: Drugs fo 
negligent, that the Roots of them all are gathered under this name ; 
as the Roots of three or more Plants, are ufed under the name of Vir- 
ginian Snakeweed ; or, as the Swifs wound Herbs, confift of every Plant 
they lay their hands upon. 
4. SIMPLE LEAV’D FEVERWORT. 
Plate 8. Fig. 2. 
Charafler of the Species. Dorftenia Caulefcens; 
The Leaves are lanc’d ; and the Heads are fquare. 
Fig. 2. a b. 
This is a perennial, native of Campeachy; where it grows on the 
moft barren rocks, to the height of two or three feet : A Plant alto- 
gether unlike the three preceding in its general afptd, but having the 
lame wonderful kind of Head as they have. 
The Stalk is weak, reddifh, and tough ; and has but few Branches. 
The Leaves are broad, but of a lanc’d (hape ; and wav’d at the Edge. 
The 
