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] The eed is oval, covered with a light down, and has at the top twelve or fourteen hairy tufts. On account of the colour of the leaves of this plant I have called it richea glauca. The flower is of a brimtone-yellow colour.

Fig. 1. The plant.

Fig. 2. The flower een from behind, o as to ditinguih the common calix.

Fig. 3. One of the mall calices, with its floriola.

Fig. 4. One of the floriola with its eed.

Fig. 5. The ame een through a magnifying glas.

Fig. 6. Floriola, divided longitudinally, to hew the tamina.

Fig. 7. The ame een through a magnifying glas.

One of the officers of the Recherche, following a beaten path made by the avages through the woods, met ix of them walking lowly towards the outh, who were all tark-naked, and armed with javelins ixteen or eighteen feet in length. Their urprie at o unexpected a rencounter was viible in their countenances; but their number inpiring them with courage, they approached at the invitations of the European, and bound round their