SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 4«i 



The ftalk is two or three feet high, ftriated, erect, 

 and branched : the leaves are generally green, 

 without any down or hoarinefs j the radical ones 

 are pinnatifid at the bafe only, with a large, oval, 

 finrtated fegment at the extremity : thofe on the 

 ftalk are pinnatifid throughout, their legments 

 laciniated : the flowers grow in umbels, and are 

 yellow and radiated : the peduncles are generally 

 downy, the caiys Imooth, the fcales blackifli at 

 the tips i the rays patent, and about 1 2 in num- 

 ber: the hermaphrodite florets in the difc about 

 60. 

 ^' The flowers are fometimes, but very rarely, feen 



without rays. 



aquaiicus y Another Angular variety of this plant, which 

 many authors confider as a diftinft fpecies, often 

 occurs in wet places, and by the fides of lakes. 



The radical leaves of this (land on long footftalics, 

 are oval, and dented on the edges. Thofe f n 

 the lower part of the ftalk are pinnatifid at rhc 

 bafe, and terminated with a large oval dented 

 lobe : but the uppermoft of all are generally 

 pinnatifid to the end. The flowers are the fame 

 as in the tommon fort. Vid. fig. (Ger, em. 280. 

 /. 3, Pet. herb. t. 17, /. 2. Loefel Flor. Pruf, p. 

 129, /. tf. 35, bona.) 



Water Ragwort. Anglis. 1;. VII. VIII. 



The leaves of thefe plants have a bitter and fome- 

 what acrid taftc : a decoaion of them will dye 

 srcen. but the colour does not ftand well. 



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