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4. Narrow-leaved hoary Golden Rod, 
Virga aurea anguftifclia incana. 
' The root is compofed of numerous, thick fibres. 
The ftalk is round, redifh, and fix or eight 
inches high, 
The leaves are long, narrow, obtufe, of a pale 
green, and alittle hairy. 
The flowers ftand in clufters at the top of the 
flalk, and on long footftalks from the bofoms of 
the leaves: it is not uncommon in the weft of 
England, and flowers in Avguft, 
Ray calls it Virga aurea montana folio angujto 
Sudincano flofculis conglobatis. 
5- Broad-leaved, indented Golden Rod. 
Virga aurea folio angufto ferrato maximo. 
The root is long and creeping, and is hung 
with numerous fibres, 
DelVelsSlOoN oat 
Knotted American Golden Rod. 
Virga aurea ad alas florida. 
The root is long, 
fibres. j 
and furnifhed with many 
FOREIGN 
The ftalk is round, upright, and toward 
bottom redifh; and it is four feet high. 
The leaves are long, broad, fharp-pointed, 
elegantly ferrated at the edges, and of a fine 
green. 
The flowers ftand in great numbers on the tops 
of the branches, into which the ftalk divides at 
the fammit ; and they are large and yellow. 
We have it in dry, wafte grounds in our nor- 
thern counties. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls Virga aurea anguftifolia fer- 
rata. Others, Solidago Sarvacencia, Saracen’s 
confound. 
the 
All the kinds of golden rod are aftringent and 
vulnerary ; but they are not ufed at prefent, 
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The flowers are numerous and {mall: they 
ftand at the top of the ftalks, and in the bofoms 
of all the leaves, in clufters; and they are fmall 
and yellow. 
It is a native of Virginia, and flowers in 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, but tolerably July. 
upright, of a pale green, and two feet or more high. 
Plukenet calls it Virga aurea ad. foliorum alas 
The leaves are broad, fhort, and beautifully florifera. 
ferrated, fharp pointed, and of a fine green, 
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VII. 
RAGWORT,. 
Fig C.O BR Bg 
EE flower is compofed of numerous flofcules, ranged in a common cup. This is fhort, of a 
cylindric figure; and compofed of numerous, oblong, 
pointed fcales. The flofcules are of 
two kinds, tubular in the centre of the difk, and flat at the verge ; the ower being radiated. The 
feeds are winged with a fine down. 
DlAyvlesseal ONT 
1. Common Ragwort. 
Facobea vulgaris. 
The root confifts of numerous, thick fibres, 
connected to a {mall head. 4 : 
The ftalk is upright, thick, not much branched, 
and two feet high, ; 
The leaves are divided into five fegments, and 
are of a deep green. 
The flowers ftand in great clufters at the tops 
of the ftalks ; and are large, and yellow. 
Tt is common by way-fides, and flowers in 
June. ’ 
C. Bauhine calls it Facobea vulgaris laciniata. 
2, Hoary, groundfel-leaved Ragwort. 
Facobea fenicionis folio incana. 
The root is fibrous and whitith. 
The flalk is two feet high, redifh, upright, 
and not much branched. 
The leaves are large, divided, and of a greyith 
green on the upper-fide, and whitith under- 
neath, 
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The flowers ftand at the tops in clufters ; and 
are large and yellow. 
It is common in paftures, 
gut. 
Ray calls it Facobea Senicionis folio incana pe- 
renmis. 
and flowers in Au- 
3: Broad-leaved Marth-Ragwort, 
Facobea paliftris latifolia, 
The root is fibrous, ; 
The ftalk is two feet and a half high, upright, 
and divided into many branches, 
The leaves are large, broad, ferrated at the 
edges, and a little notched toward the bafe. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks, and 
are large and yellow. 
It is common about waters, and flowers in 
duly. 
C. Bauhine calls it Facobea Alpina laciniata 
lore bupthhalmi. Others, Facobea aquatica. 
4. Mountain- 
