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the top, and from two to three feet high. The leaves are feflile, 

 ufually three at a joint, verticillatim, and two on the branches, 

 oblong, and lancolated, of a pale green, and hairy underneath. 

 The flowers are in cinders on the tops of the branches, of a pale 

 yellow, with a circle of pale red in the bottom of each, in the 

 more robuft plants. The feed is difpofcd on a round placenta. 

 The calyx is deeply divided into five parts. It flowers in June 

 and July. Under culture, in a moid warm border, it grows to 

 between four and five feet high, and makes a gay figure with 

 its large beautiful panicles. The leaves were formerly accounted 

 good for cooling inflammations in wounds, but are now dif- 

 ufed. 



The lejjer yellow Willow Herb, or Loofe-Jlrife, with globofe flowers 

 in the Alts of the leaves, in beautiful fpikes (x), does not grow 

 with us that I have obferved. 



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9. The Conyza, or Middle Fleabane (y). On ditch-banks, and by 

 waters. On the banks of a rivulet between Segill and Halywell t 

 in great abundance. In a lane leading to the fea-banks from 

 Ellington, near Blakemore-haM, fparingly. We have it alfo on the 

 banks of Owfe-burn, above the bridge, at Newcoftle ; and in a 



(x) Lyfimachia bifolia, flore globofo lutea. C. B. Pin. p. 245. Lyfimachia ex alis foli- 

 orum thyrfifera. Linn. Flo Lapp. n. 82. Hort. Cliff, p. 52. Lyfimachia racemis fimplici- 

 bus lateralibus. Virid. Cliff, p. 13. Royen, lugdb. p. 416. 



(y) Conyza media qfleris flore luteo. C. B. Pin. p. 265. Raj. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 113. Syn. 

 ill. p. 174. Conyza media Matthiuli, flore magno luteo, humidis locis proveniens. /. B. ii. 

 p. IQ50. Conyza media, Offic. Dal. Pharm. p. 87. After pratenfis autumnalis conyzae 

 folio. Tourn. Inft. p. 492. Helenium pratenfe autumnale, conyzae foliis caulem amplexan- 

 tibus. Vai'l A&. 1720. p. 405. Conyza foliis lanceolatis acutis, caule annuo, corymbofo. 

 Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 405. Royen. lugdb. p. 157. After foliis amplexicadlibus, crifpis, fub- 

 tus incanis, luteo flore radiato. Hall. Helv. p. 726, 727. 



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