SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA SUPERFLuA. ^^^5 

 the rays of the flower are numerous, narrov, 

 and terminated with three acute dents : the down 

 of the feeds is reddifh, each hair of it finely 

 dented on one fide. 

 The root is acrid, bitter, and aromatic : a con- 

 ferve of it Hands recommended in afthn^as, and 

 other diforders of the breall and lungs, as good 

 to promote expeftoration. The decoclion of it 

 in water, or an infufion in wine, or a fpiriruons 

 extraft, are alfo cxtcll'd as a (lomachic and fu- 

 dorific, and are therefore prefcrib'd in crudities 

 of the ftomach, bad digctlions, the hypochon- 

 dria, and contagious difcafes. Outwardly ap- 

 plied, a decc6lion of it is faid to cure the itch. 

 Bruifed and macerated in urine, with balls of 

 allies and whortle berries, it dyes a blue colour. 



DORONlCUiM. Gen. pL ^S9' 

 Recept. nudum. Pappus limplex. Calycis fquama^ 

 duplicis ordinis sequales, difco longiores. Sent. 

 radii nuda pappoque deftituta. 

 >ardalian- DORONICUM foliis cordatis obtufis denticulatis, 

 chs* 1. radicalibus petiolatis, caulinis amplexicaulibus. 



Sp. pi. 1247. (Ger. em. 762./. 7. Moris hijl. f. 7. 

 /. 24./. 4. Miller ic. 128. Blachvell t. 239.) 

 Great Leopard's Bane, or Wolf's-Bane, Anglis. 

 We obferved it in feveral places in the lowlands, 

 as about Hoddam caftle, in Annandalc^ &c. bur 

 always near houfes, fo that w^e fufpecl it not to 

 be indigenous, but as it fcems to be naturalized 



