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54) dentibus acuminatis, ramio rumosus diffusis. &c. Com. among rubbish &c.

Another variety in wh ye stalks are striated green white. perhaps in ye stalks & spreading branches are ye principle Variety Chr. — All ye ohter parts of these 2 Varieties accord.

This last variety has its leaves on both sides & ye Flowers almost covered with while meally particles giving ye whole plant — & especially ye spikes a whitish appearance

We have a nother Chenopodium, wh seems to have intire lanceolate leaves — but ye lower leaves are fallen & ye plant too much decayed to attemp a descript.

55) Chenopodium Serratifolium N. Species Hog-Weed — Ch. Serratifolium, foliis deltoideis [inovulitum?] plentato, — Serratis, acuminatis, racemis consertis strictisis= =mis, caule aproximatis, bre= =vioribus.

Stem upright angular almost 2 feet high, angular, white & green, some times tinged with red pale red on parts of ye stem. Racems short, close to ye stalk — of a reddish cast — rise from ye axilla of ye leaves. The Leaves are trowel shaped — with both teeth & serra from ye base to ye apex — intermixed & unequal — ye serra turned forward & some of ym hooked The teeth acuminated. The apex of ye leaf acuminated Leaves are erect, longer yn

56) ye petioles, frequently twice as long — petioles short — Numer Very few or no white globules on ye flowers — & scarce any distinguishable on ye stem leaves — none on ye Stems. Bloss reddish green. Not common — About old rubbish — ________

Capraria N Sp. carinati fol= =ia Amera. Foxglove — It is ye plant I called Digitalis purpurea Mem. Acad

The Gen. Chr. accord well & much better yn Digitalis. It can not be a dig.

The most satisfying Chr. is ye bivalved Stigma wh is evident in this plant. The Stigm is also cordate. The anthera seem rather bipen= =tita

57) -tita hinc acuminata rather yn Cordata. But ye are in a cordate form in ap=pearance. Cal. & Cor. accord perfectly — only Segts of Corol are rather roundish yn oblong, & ya are completely quinquesida making ye Segts nearly circular. Stam accord well except as a bove — Pist. accord. Caps. round=ish & Compressed — but apex is compressed — it is bilocular dissepimento contrario — ye partitions transverse —

There can be no doubt of it being a Capraria is a N Sp. —

Capraria carnitifolia vel linearifolio foliis oppositis sessilibus linearis carina= tis, integerrimis, Scabris; cal caulibus quadrangulis diffu= =sis ramis diffusis, floribus folitariis.

The Stem very much branched — a foot & half high The branches spreading. The

58) The stems are quadranglar, or have 4 projected or rising seams runing down on each side. Leaves opposite linear — very nar= =row — ye middle vein projected on ye underside into a keel, wh makes ye leaf appear triangular. long — rough Bloss. single, on leafy petioles — Tube of ye Corole narrow at ye base — swelling out, & curved upwards, like an inverted horn, & is gibbose. The mouth very large — Segts near e= =qual — ye 2 upper ye smallest & most erect — ye lower con= =cave — ye disk is nearly ho= =rizontal in full bloom — ye outer &, properly, ye lower Segts rather curved inward. They are reddish white & very soon fall off intire.

This plant seems to be in near affinity to ye Digitl. & Scrophularia. It can=