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A Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier
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of the flower and thinness of the leaves, argue this plant to be a
Rapuntium.

Table 2 Figure 2. Fucus foliis capillaceis brevissimis, vesiculis minimis
donatis. This elegant fucus is of the Erica Marina or Sargazo kind, but
has much finer parts than that. It was collected on this coast of New
Holland.

Table 2 Figure 3. Ricinoides Novae Hollandiae anguloso crasso folio. This
plant is shrubby, has thick woolly leaves, especially on the underside.
Its fruit is tricoccous, hoary on the outside with a calix divided into 5
parts. It comes near Ricini fructu parvo frucosa Curassavica, folio
Phylli, P.B. pr.

Table 2 Figure 4. Solanum spinosum Novae Hollandiae Phylli foliis
subrotundis. This new Solanum bears a bluish flower like the others of
the same tribe; the leaves are of a whitish colour, thick and woolly on
both sides, scarce an inch long and near as broad. The thorns are very
sharp and thick set, of a deep orange colour, especially towards the
points.

Table 3 Figure 1. Scabiosa (forte) Novae Hollandiae, statices foliis
subtus argenteis. The flower stands on a foot-stalk 4 inches long,
included in a rough calix of a yellowish colour. The leaves are not above
an inch long, very narrow like Thrift, green on the upper and hoary on
the underside, growing in tufts. Whether this plant be a Scabious, Thrift
or Helichrysum is hard to judge from the imperfect flower of the dried
specimen.

Table 3 Figure 2. Alcea Novae Hollandiae foliis angustis utrinque
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