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serrate; those at the top linear and entire: the flowers from the sides 

 and at the top of the stalks, white, and each sitting in a bristly 

 calyx: the root is biennial. It is a native of Tartary, &c. 



The sixth species has the root-leaves villose, ash-coloured, deeply 

 pinnatifid; with the pinnules blunt, distinct, the lower ones linear 

 and entire, the upper gradually wider, blunt, gash-toothed: the 

 stem-leaves bipinnate, with the leaflets linear, narrow, unequal, 

 scarcely pubescent: the stem afoot and half in height: it flowers 

 very late, even in November, and is perennial. It is a native of the 

 south of France, &c. 



The seventh is annual, the stems three feet high, hairy: the 

 leaves oblong, deeply notched; the upper ones cut almost to the 

 midrib into fine segments: the flowers on long peduncles: the re- 

 ceptacles are globular: the florets large, spreading open like a star, 

 ef a pale purple colour. It is a native of Spain and Barbary, 

 flowering in July and August. 



It varies with different jagged leaves, and with red and white 

 flowers. 



The eighth species has a fibrous annual biennial root, crowned 

 with a large tuft of oblong leaves, variously jagged and cut on the 

 edges: the stems upright, numerously branched on every side, three 

 feet high or more: the calyx, is twelve-leaved, recurved, linear, the 

 length of the corolla: the flower very dark purple, with white an- 

 thers: the fruit ovate: the receptacle subulate, with bristle-shaped 

 chaffs* It flowers from June to October: the flowers are very 

 sweet, and there is a great variety in their colour, some being of a 

 purple approaching to black, others of a pale purple, some red and 

 others variegated. It also varies in the leaves, some being finer cut 

 than others: and sometimes from the side of the calyx come out 

 many slender peduncles sustaining small flowers, like the (proliferous 

 or) Hen-and-chicken Daisy. 



The ninth is a low perennial plant, with a branching stalk 

 spreading wide on every side; the leaves are of a silvery colour; 

 the flowers are small, pale, and have no scent: the stem has white 



