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TANx\CETUM VULGARE. COMMON TANSY. 



S TNO NTMJ, Tanacetum. Pbarm,, Lond, cif Edinh. Rail Hljl. 



p. 2)^^, Sy?iop. p, 1 8 8. Gerard Emac, /. 650. Tanacetum vulgan 

 luteum. Baiih. Pin, p, 132. Tanacetum vulgare. Park, Theat, p 



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Hudfon Flor, Ang, p, 357. Withering, Bot, Arrang. p, 887 

 Flor, Ban, p, 871. Tanacetum foliis pinnatis, pinnis femipinnatis 

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Clafs Syngenefia. Or^. Polygamia Superflua. Lin, Gen, Plant, i^^, 



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EJf, Gen, Ch, Recept, nudum. Pappus fubmarginatus. Cal, im- 



tricatus, hemifphsericus. Cor, radii obfoletas, 3-lid^. 



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Sp, Ch, T. foliis bipinnatis incifis ferratis. 



THE root is perennial, long, creeping, and fibrous: the ftem is 

 flrong, ered, often reddifh, branched towards the top, fmooth, befet 

 with leaves, and rifes two or three feet in height: the leaves are 

 doubly pinnated; leffer pinnae, numerous, notched, or deeply ferrated; 

 principal ribs edged with leafy clefts : the flowers are yellow, com- 

 pound, and produced in a corymbus: the calyx confifts of numerous 

 Imall imbricated fquamse, forming a common perianthum of an 

 hemifpherical fhape : the florets at the difc are hermaphrodite, tubular, 

 divided at the mouth into five pointed fegments : the florets at the 



harder are female, and ciit at the brim into three teeth : tlie filaments 

 are five, very fhort, flender, and furniftied with anthers, which unite 

 and form a hollow cylinder : the germen in both the hermaphrodite 

 d female florets is oblong, fmall, and fupports a filiform flyle, fur 



nifhed with a cloven reflexed fi:igma : the feeds are naked, folitary, 

 and of an oblong fliape : the receptacle is convex and naked. It is a 

 native of England, growing in moift paftures, borders of corn fields, 

 roads, and rivers, and flowering in July and Augufl:. 



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