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proposes as a query, whether the Jaceæ vel Serratule adfinis of 
this author can be the same ; and, neglecting most of the syno- 
nyma referred to by his friend, he only quotes the Scabiosa in- 
dica, capitulis foliaceis, major, foliis Trachelii of Hermann, whose 
plant indeed it was that he saw, together with the plant figured 
by Plukenet in the 154th plate of the PAytographia, acknow- 
ledging that the figure is bad, that is to say, not like his speci- 
men. He adds to these synonyma the Serratula indica major 
capitulo folioso of Morison; but thinks, that the plant has a 
greater resemblance to the Conyza major vulgaris C. D. P. than 
to the Serratula. It must be observed, that he describes the 
** Semina pilis simplicibus longitudine calycis coronata." 
This general resemblance to the Conyza induced Linnzus, on 
publishing the Species Plantarum, to call this plant Conyza an- 
thelmintica, in which as usual he was followed by the younger 
Burman (Fl. Ind. 178.), although the generic character of Co- 
nyza is totally wanting in the Baccharioides. Burman added to 
the synonyma the Cattu Schiragam, and a name given by Vail- 
lant, who, like Linnzus, considered the plant as a Conyza. The 
synonyma of Morison, and the Jacee vel Serratule adfinis, were 
now left out. 
Although M. Lamarck had learned from M. Desfontaines, 
that all the flowers were hermaphrodite, he still continued to 
call this plant the Conyza anthelmintica, and made no change on 
the synonyma (Enc. Meth. ii. 83.). 
Willdenow without altering the synonyma (Sp. Pl. iii. 1634.), 
or restoring that of Morison, returned in a great measure to 
his opinion ; and, uniting the Cattu Schiragam with several Ser- 
ratulas, followed Schreber in calling the genus Vernonia, thus 
placing it in the natural order of Cinarocephalæ instead of Co- 
rymbifere; and I must confess, that with these Serratule, and 
some Eupatoria, it seems to form an intermediate link between 
the 
