SYNGENESIA. AZQUALIS. Bidens, 
-It continues, after it is dead, unchanged even for the whole of 
the second year, a mournful spectacle! Linn. Root long, spin- 
dle-shaped, with a few sti res. Stem 12 to 15 inches high, 
swelling just above the root, cylindrical, ribbed, purple, slightly 
downy, dividing above like an umbel. Leaves very numerous, 
clothing the whole stem and decreasing in size upwards, the 
lower sitting, the upper embracing the stem, deeply toothed, the 
teeth armed with numerous yellow thorns ; those at the base o 
each branch, larger than the upper stem-leaves ; those of the 
branches smaller than the stem-leaves, the uppermost join and 
tm the lower ones of the calyx. Ca/. scales purplish, edged 
and terminated with branching yellow thorns; the innermost 
strap-shaped, pointed at the end, dry, fringed with long hairs to- 
wards the base, straw-coloured within, without reddish brown to- 
spear-shaped, purple, straw-coloured below. Seed woolly ; dow 
sitting, rays 9 to 12, generally 11, either single, or with 2 or 3 
the clearest proofs of a natural generic difference. Stoxes. 
e. Dry meadows and pastures. B. June.* 
BI'DENS. Recept. chaffy: down rough with straight 
awns: calyx tiled. 
B. Leaves spear-shaped, embracing the stem: flowers on 
crooked fruit-stalks : seeds upright. 
Curt. 192-FlI. dan. 841-F. B. ii. 1074—Ger. 574-Pet. 206 
6—Lob. adv. 227, and ic. 1. 529, 
eaves with distant serratures. Floqwer-/eaves very entire. 
Seeds with 4 awns, 2 of which are larger. Woopwarp. Stem 
alittle hairy. Leaves opposite. Ca/. segments egg-spear-shaped, 
with black lines. Blossom and summits yellow. Anthers brown. 
Germen pyramidal, with 4 corners ; awns 4, with prickles point- 
ing downwards. f 
_ Nodding Double Tooth. Water Hemp Agrimony. Wet 
ditches, marshy places. A. July, Aug. 
It is said to be an excellent remedy in hysterical cases. Amen. Acad. 
: Goats eat it. Cows refuse it. Linn. Its presence indicates 
soil, 
A gS aga £3 
cer’nua. 
