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pears to aifc6l the weftern fide of the kingdom, 

 1;. VII. VIII. 



The root confifts of long tumid fibres, crown'd 

 at the top with the dry briftly remains of de- 

 cay'd leaves. 



The ftalk is about a cubit high, of the fize of a 

 crow-quill, erecl, and towards the top fparingly 

 branch'd, furnilli'd with only two or three dif- 

 tant leaves. 



The radical leaves are fix inches long, linear, 

 and undivided, apparently furrounded with 

 numerous v/hirls of capillary foliola, about a 

 quarter of an inch in length. Stridly fpeak- 

 ing however, thefe whirls are compos'd only 

 of oppofite and feflile pinnules, embracing a 

 common rib at their bafe, and divided deeply 

 into acute capillary fegments. 



The common umbel confifts of eight or ten rays, 

 the partial ones of about double that number, 

 their difc nearly plane. 



The common and partial involucra are compofed 

 each of five or fix oval acute foliola. 



The flowers are all hermaphrodite, the petals 

 white, the feeds oval and longitudinally fur- 

 rowed. 



TRIGYNIA. 



