478 SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 



The root dug up in the fpring is refinous, and 

 aromatic. A drachm of it ^^ a dofe has been 

 fometimes given as a fudorific^alexipharmic, but 

 as it pofleffes thofe virtues but in a linall degree, 

 it has loft its reputation in the fliops. 



SENECIO. Gen. pi. 953. 



Recept. nudum. Pappus fimplex. Cal. cylindricus, 

 calyculatus; jquamis apice fphacelatis. 



* Florihus jlofculofis. 



mlgaris i. SENECIO corollis nudis, foliis pinnato-finuatis 

 amplexicaulibus, floribus fparfis. Sp. pi. J2i6, 

 {Ger.em. 278. /. 1. Blackwell /. 132. Oed. Dan. 

 513. opt.) 

 Common Groundfcl. AngUs. 

 Am bualan. Gaulis. 



In gardens and wafte grounds common. O. IV- IX. 

 The ftalk is ereft, angular, branch'd, a foot high, 

 thick, and fucculent : the leaves are numerous, 

 sreen, flightly cover'd with a cobweb down, fdiC 

 file and wide at the bafe, pinnatifid, the feg- 

 ments and infterfticcs ferratcd : the flowers grov\r 

 in cluilcrs at the fummits of the branches, yel- 

 low, and without rays : the calyx confifts of one 

 one feries of linear acute fcales with black apices : 

 at the bale of the talyx are feveral (hort fupple- 

 mentary leaks, which have alfo black lummits : 

 the feeds arc of a long elliptic form, and fur- 

 row 'd. 



The 



