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proposes as a query, whether the Jocea vel Serratulce adjiiiis 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, 7najor,foUis Trachelii of Hermann, whose 

 plant indeed it was that he saw, together with the plant figured 

 by Plukenet in the lo4th plate of the Fhytographia, acknow- 

 ledging that the figure is bad, that is to say, not like his speci- 

 men. He adds to these synonyma the Sen'atula 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 calj^cis coronata." 



This general resemblance to the Conyza induced Linnaeus, 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 Caltu Schiragam, and a name given by Vail- 

 lant, who, like Linnaeus, considered the plant as a Conyza. The 

 synonyma of IMorison, and the Jacea vel Serratula adjinis, 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 Cinarocephalce instead of Co- 

 rymbifera; and I must confess, that with ihe^e Serratulce, and 

 some Eupatoria, it seems to form an intermediate link between 



the 



