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grant, and creeping upon the ground, and nothing diffe- 

 rent, but in those very accidents of flowering, from that 

 which grows traihng on our commons, which, however 

 erroneously styled vulgar., yet in reality is the Roman, or 

 noble sort of Chamcem. But that which ordinarily goes 

 under the name of Cotida fcetida fl. plea., which I once 

 found in some plenty on the high road from London to 

 Barnet, about half a mile short of the town, is both 

 upright in its stalk, and of no scent at all ; and this I 

 dare pronounce to be the double of the Cham am. arvor. 

 vulff., which I take also to be different from the Cotula 

 fcetida Bod. \_Anthemis Cotula, Linn.], or Chamam. 

 inodorum, C. B. P., of which sort I never yet beheld any 

 with a double flow^er. I must needs own that Dr. 

 Morison, in ' Praelud.' 249, relating there how frequently 

 this Cotul. inod. sem. nigr. did occur to him upon the 

 coasts of Bretagne, in France, assigns om- double floM'er- 

 ing to a variety of this, assuring it also to produce seed 

 of a like hue. I will not question the doctor's seeing the 

 seed (though double-flowering plants seldom bear any), 

 because he seems to be very positive in it ; nor indeed 

 was I ever so curious to observe it, not having seen a 

 growing plant for above these twenty years, and so am 

 ignorant of its colour ; but the mien and aii*, the total 

 habit of this multiplex kind, of which I still retain a firm 

 idea in my mind — the lower stature of it, though upright, 

 the brisk and vivid colour of its leaves, the fewer branch- 

 ings of its stalk, the lesser compass of its double flowers, 

 and shorter lengths of its fine-cut leaves — in all which 

 the Chamam. vulg. differs from the Cotula inodora, which 

 bespeak it to appertain rather to the former ; of which 

 in my Catalogue I have made it a more immediate 

 variety. 



Page 61. There is a Limo7iium minus [Statice spathu- 

 lata, Desf.J said to grow with us in the north of Eng- 

 land, and which I have observed in gardens : perhaps the 

 same sort that Parkinson asserts Lobel to have found 

 about Colchester. The most pecuharity that I could 



