ne that sees this plant without
its seed vessels would take it for an Erica or Sanamunda. The leaves of
this plant are of a very aromatic taste.
Table 4 Figure 1. Equisetum Novae Hollandiae frutescens foliis
longissimis. It is doubtful whether this be an Equisetum or not; the
textures of the leaves agree best with that genus of any, being
articulated one within another at each joint, which is only proper to
this tribe. The longest of them are about 9 inches.
Table 4 Figure 2. Colutea Novae Hollandiae floribus amplis coccineis,
umbellatim dispositis macula purpurea notatis. There being no leaves to
this plant, it is hard to say what genus it properly belongs to. The
flowers are very like to the Colutea Barbae Jovis folio flore coccineo
Breynii; of the same scarlet colour, with a large deep purple spot in the
vexillum, but much bigger, coming all from the same point after the
manner of an umbel. The rudiment of the pod is very woolly, and
terminates in a filament near 2 inches long.
Table 4 Figure 3. Conyza Novae Hollandiae angustis rorismarini foliis.
This plant is very much branched and seems to be woody. The flowers stand
on very short pedicules, arising from the sinus of the leaves, which are
exactly like rosemary, only less. It tastes very bitter now dry.
Table 4 Figure 4. Mohoh Insulae Timor. This is a very odd plant, agreeing
with no described genus. The leaf is almost round, green on the upper
side and whitish underneath, with several fibres running from the
insertion of the pedicule towards the circumference, it is umbilicated as
Cotyledon aquatica and Faba Aegyptia. The flowers are white, standing on
single foot-stalks, of the shape of a Stramonium, but divided into 4
points only, as is the perianthium.
Table 5 Figure 1. Fucus ex Nova Guinea uva marina dictus, foliis variis.
This beautiful Fucus is thick set with very small short tufts of leaves,
which by the help of a magnifying glass seem to be round and articulated,
as if they were seed vessels; besides these there are other broad leaves,
chiefly at the extremity of the branches, serrated on the edges. The
vesiculae are round, of the bigness expressed in the figure.
Table 5 Figure 2. Fucus ex Nova Guinea Fluviatilis Pisanae J.B. foliis.
These plants are so apt to vary in their leaves, according to their
different states, that it is hard to say this is distinct from the last.
It has in several places (not all expressed in the figure) some of the
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