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therefore (for the flowers are clustered together) has a very 
pretty appearance. The flower is very small and yellow, 
three or five together. It seems confined to the middle and 
south of England, in gravelly fields. 
Mepicaco tupuLina. Black Medick, or Nonsuch. 
Another smail species, somewhat similar to the last; but 
the flowers, though as small, are in larger heads, bung 
formed of a greater number ; the seed-vessels are small and 
rugged, and turn black when drying. It is more plentiful 
than WZ. maculata, and grows in waste places and culti- 
vated fields. 
SYNGENESIA. AQUALIS. 
CoROLLIFLORZ, ASTERACE. 
LEONTODON. (DanpeELion.) 
Generic Character. nvolucre formed of scales lying one ove 
the other. lowers in many rows. Seeds with feathery sails. 
Receptacle naked. 
This common plant requires but little description. It 
flowers all the summer, and is useful to the bee, on account 
of its honey, and to birds which are fond of its seeds. The 
latter are beautiful objects, each one being furnished with a 
