490 SYNGENESIA : POLYG AMIA SUPERFLUA, 



detrimental to the hufbandman, that a law is in 

 force in Denmark^ which obliges the inhabitants 

 every where to eradicate them out of their 

 grounds. 

 This noxious weed is faid to be dellroyed by dung- 

 ing the foil where it grows in the Autumn, by 

 letting it lie fallow one fummer, and by harrow- 

 ing the ground in about five days after fowing 

 the feeds for the future crop. Lin, Ft. Suec. 762. 



MATRICARIA. Gen. pi 967. 



Eecept. nudum. Pappus nuUus. C^l. hemifphaeri- 

 cus, imbricatusj Iquamis marginalibus folidifj 

 acutiufculis. 

 pGriheniH'm MATRICARIA folils compofitis planis, folioli^ 

 J.- ovatis incifis, pedunculis ramofis. Sp. pL i2^(^. 



(Ger. emac. 652./. i. P<f/. herb, t. i(^. f. 5. Black- 

 -ivell t, 19 2. J 



Feverfew. Jnglis. 



In wafle places near houfes and gardens, and lome- 

 fime.s in corn-fields. Mr. Siuart. ^. J./Zi. VII. 

 VIll. 



The flalk is crea, a yard high, 'and branched : 

 the leaves are fiightly downy, foft and tender, 

 of a p:tie green colour, compofi^d of fix pair of 

 pinncs, with an odd trifid one at the extremity, 

 Theie pimiT are nearly oval and pinnatifid, their 

 fegp.-ents again obtufcly ferrated. 



1 he flowers grow in an umbel upon branched pe- 

 dunclef^, and have yellow difcs with white rays : 

 ti,.- rra]e= of the ^a!yy have dry membranaceous^ 



margins. 



