Anthenis votuld, — 
much branched down to the bottom. The leaves. are alternate, 
sessile, flat, doubly pinnated ; the mid-rib. ke eeled — underneath, 
Flower-stalks upright, finely grooved, naked, thickening towards 
the top, Calix common to all the florets, hemispherical, imbricated, 
hairy, searious, or rough ; the scates ie slightly margined, of 
a pale green colour, Flowers pure white, with the centre bright — 
yellow. In favourable situations they are of the size represent- 
ed in the plate, but not uncommonly somewhat smaller; yet 1 
have occasionally seen them, in unmolested places, something 
larger. The disk is of a bright golden-yellow colour, consisting of 
numerous, tubular, te imo ereigaihes, florets. 
4 The ray. ig tg are iain en Sniining to si two- 
: ribbed, one, two, or three toothed (more or less deeply) at. the 
apex. . They are reflexed from sunset till morning, but spreading 
horizontally. during: the day. They are pure white, slightly, tinged 
swith greenish-yellow | at the base. The tu part of the 1 
as well as the germen, is garnished. with vehement Prt oe visible 
without a glass, but more conspicuously apparent and beautiful — 
under one. Stigma bifid, with the segments reflexed. Recepta- 
cle conical, or near y cylindrical, surmounted by rigid, bristle-shaped 
pales or chaff. Seeds, obovate, bluntly four-cornered, sulcated, 
sometimes roughly tuberculated, and of a brownish colour. Found 
growing every where it in 1 wasies, near to habitations, among rubbish, 
and on dirty way sides, all along calcareous turnpike roads, where it 
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