SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA TEQUALIS. 463 



In marfhy places, and by the fides of lakes. Dr. 

 Parfons. o. VIII. 



The whole plant is fmooth, a cubit high, and 

 branched : the leaves are lanceolate, fcrratcd, 

 oppofite to each other, feffile, and coalefcent at: 

 the bale : the flowers grow fingly at the tops of 

 the branches, and after fhedding their feminal 

 powder, hang down their heads : the lower fcales 

 of the calyx are foliaceous ; the flowers are yel- 

 low, and fometimes radiated, but not often ; the 

 feed is quadrangular, and has four beards, two of 

 which are longer than the others. 



minima^. A fmall variety o^.tjiis fometimes occurs, from 

 three to fix incheSj^vhich fome authors have made 

 a diftincl fpecies, becaufe the heads of flowers 

 arc erecb. But this is not always the cafe, for wc 

 have often feen them nod, and are therefore 

 fully perfuaded that it is either an autumnal 

 feedling, produced from an early plant of the 

 preceding, with which it grows promifcuoufly, 

 or elfe is rendered dwarfifli by fome accidents of 

 growth. (See the figures of it in Ray's Synops 

 p. 188. /. y.f. i.^Oed. Fl, Dan. t. 312.) 

 This has nearly the fame virtues with the preced- 

 ing, but rather in an inferior degree. It alio 

 dyes yellow. 



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Recept. nudum. Fappus plumofus. Cal. imbricatus 



oblongus. Stylus femibifidus, longus. 



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