#s- ey too?. T U S J A ? I A : C E N 3IS. as 



OX-EYE. EUPTWALMUM. 



Cl. 1?, ' c~. 2. fyngenesia polygamia mperfua. 'Nat. or. Comp^slta, 



'Gen. chah: Common calyx imbricate; corolla compound, radiated; hermaphro- 

 dite stamens five, anthers tubular; fire pistil 1 has an ovate erni, filiform style; stigma 

 tuiekisli, undivided: female g-Tiu aru/vpital, sic f liforni, stigmas twa; there is 

 lib pericarp, the calyx unchaaged: seeds of- the hermaphrodite solitary, oblong, 

 'Crowned with a gashed manit'ol I edge ; of the females, solitary, compressed, with 

 each edge cutting, crowned ?l;ks the others; receptacle chaffy, coovex. Gut* 

 species is a native of Jamaica. 



FRITTESCENS. BHRUBBy. 



Chrysanthemum frutieosityninaritimum, foliis gJmcis bblnngis, /fore 

 lutfo. Sleane,< v. I, p. 260 Sub-frutkosuwi inaritimumimxiniait, 

 Joiiis (nHoTigis, Jloribus sohlurus ad divaricationes ramorum. 

 Browne, p. 'i'10. 



Leaves opposite, lanceolate; petioles two- toothed ; stem shrubby. 

 This plant grows near the sea-side, and seldom rises above four feet high, in a tufted 

 form. Stem whitish, the-size of the little finger; branches towards the top, opposite, 

 on which the leaves grow in opposite tufis; they are of unequal sizes, some narrow 

 and long, others broad, the longest about an inch long, they are soft and hoary, hav- 

 ing a whitish down, and ending in a scarcely discernible prickle. The flowers are pro- 

 duced at the ends of the branches in large heads, on the outside of which are many 

 whitish small leaves, inclosing the flowers, which are many, close set together, of a 

 yellow colour. Shane. Browne calls it samp/tire, or the sea-side ox-eye. He notice* 

 three other species ot'.buptJiahuuin, one of which belongs to the genus silphium. 



OX-EYE, CREEPING. SILPHIUM. 



Cl. 19, OR. 4. Syngenesia polygamia ncccssaria. Nat. or. Compositt?. 



Gen. CHAR. Common calyx erect, patent, squarrose ; corolla compound, radiate; 

 corollets hermaphrodite in the disk, many ; females in the ray, fewer : there is no 

 pericarp, calyx unchanged ; seed down, margined, two-homed ; receptacle 

 chaffy j chaffs linear. 



TRILOBATU.Nf. THREE-I.OBED. 



Chrysanthemum palustrc, repens, minus, odoratum, folio scabro tri- 

 lobato. Sloane, v. 1, p. 262, t. 155, f. 1. Hirsutum, foliis tri- 

 lobis, ad basim angustioribus, oppositis; Jloribus solitaries alaribus. 

 Browne, p. 321. 



Leaves opposite, sessile, wedge-form. 



Stem jointed, creeping along the ground, at each joint many hairy fibres of a black- 

 ish- brown colour, with opposite leaves, rough, notched, and smelling aroruatically. 

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