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Show Pie BARI T 18 H HERBAL, 457 the edges, fo as to refemble the pinnated kinds ; and they areof a pale, bluith green. 2. Small-flowered Corn Marygold. Chryfanthemum flore minore. The flowers are very numerous, fmall, and The root is compofed of many long, white fibres. i The ftalk is upright, branched, and two feet yellow. We have it in:corn-fields in fome parts of the kingdom, but not frequent. Ic flowers in Augutt. Ray calls it Chry/anthemumfegetumnoftras folio "The leaves are large, and deeply divided at | glauco multifciffo. high. BRITISH HERBAL DLE VA,S PON FiIOR EIGN’ W. Indian Corn Marygold. WOES.6 Chryfanthemumlatifolium Indicum. PHESORSOSOHSSLTTOSSHOSPSGIGSSIOSISCHOSSSOHGHSGO C LA S.S. XXVIII. The root is long, white, and hung with a few fibres. The flalk is round, purplifh at the bafe, branched, and twofeet high. Plants whofe flower is compofed of many flofcules, arranged in a difcoide Gi dito N jSorm; and whofe feeds are not winged with down, [ee are feparated by Nature in a very diftin& mannerfrom all other plants: andthefingle circumftance of their feeds having none of that downy matter which is annexed to thofe of the two preceding divifions, is an obvious and unalterable mark of the cla: it joins them to one another, while it excludes the reft of the difcoide-flowered kinds. This was a character Linnzus could not but perceive; and, todo him the juftice due to his great accuracy in examination, he has never once omitted to name it; but unhappily the purpofe ofhis fyftem being to exclude all but the minuter parts from the diftinctions of claffés, he could not ufe it PH SAN T HE MU. tape flower is compofed of many flofcules, of two kinds, arranged in a difk or roundedhead, and furrounded wich numerous petals as ra YS3 and it is placed in a hemifpheric cup, made of numerous andclofe-compactedfcales. Theflofcules in the centre of the difk are tubular ; thofe on the rim are flat, and the feeds are oblong, Linnzus places this and all the fucceeding genera of the prefent clafs‘among the /yngene/ia. Dives lO NE G MM UY. long fegments ; which are fharp-pointed, and fer- sth 65 +7 vegan: uN rated at the edges. The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches 3 and are very large, and of a fine gold yellow. We have it damp grounds in fome of out northern counties. It flowers in Auguft. C. Bauhinecalls it Bupbthalmum tanaceti minoris foliis. Uians SNeBE. Z EB WiOrk P. PTARMICA. e placed placed in 1 acup of an oval , and is HE flower is radiated, and compofed of numerous flofcules ; The flofcules in the teas4 form, compofed of fmall, fharp-pointed, and convergent fcales.. . tubular, and: cut into five gaping fegments at the edge: the flofcules in the edge are few in Ome in the midft o and each is divided in a heart-like manner at the top, and has a very fall fegment the divifion. Thefeedis oval. mmon head with the J yarrow, i it under one com joining ngenefia, joining i among the frmgenefia, places this Linnzeus i and calling the genus Achillea. Dil Vv I sil ON Brie tes dS PBC ES: 1. Common Corn Marygold. 47 Zo oils 65. /3| tated at the edges; and their colour is a pale, i i Chryfanthemum Segetum vulgare. bluith green, 5 : The flowers terminat ate the branches; and they The root is long, and hung about with many | are large and yellow fibres. ‘ ea lies . It is common ij The ftalk is flender, upright, Nee very much jp July, ed i ane branched, and w-3 = & aaptwofeet high, x tc . Bauhine calls it “Bellis Iut fali vofund CH. e Uiea Louris rope The leaves are oblong, fharp-poin ted, and fer | incifis. rl : 2. Small 42-5 feeds:-are oblong. Linnzeus places this wich the reft among the /yngenefia. Go fe N Ulas aT CORN MARYGOLD. Il: formed of many flender leaves. The flofcules in the central part of the difk are tubular, and thofe at the rim flat. The edge of the tubular flofcules is cut into five fegments ; and the Thofe of which one or more fpecies are naturally wild in this country. RAE TH The root is long, and furnifhed with many fibres. The ftalk is round, upright, very much branched, and two feet and a half high. The leaves are large, of a fine green, and very beautifully divided in a pinnated mannerinto ob- Natives of BRITAIN, CSH UwssS HE flower is radiated, and compofed of numerous flofcules; and is placed in a rounded cup, Common Ox-Eye. Sa Buphthalmum vulgare. ZC =e The leaves are broad, fhort, fharp-pointed, ferrated at the edges, and ofa bright green. The flowers ftand at the fummits of the branches ; andare large, andofa pale yellow: It is anative of the Eaft and Weft Indies, and flowers in Auguft. Plukenet calls it Chry/anthemum Maderafpatanum oxycanthe foliis. O X-E.Y¥. EB: BU for this end. SER SP E'C.1E 5S, 21. BRITISH SPECIES. The leaves are long, narrow, of a deep green, Common Sneezewort. 3 Ptarmica : vulgaris. adJG? The root is long, flender, and hung with many fibres. The ftalk is round, upright, and two feet and ahalf high, of a pale green, and branched. N°45, rough on the furface, fharp-pointed, andferrated at the edges. The flowers are very numerous, finall, and white: they ftand in the tops of the branches. i It is commonon dampditch-banks, and flowers euft, hi) 6A C. Bauhine |