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CLAS S XXVIII. 
Plants whofe flower is compofed of many flofcules, arranged in a difcoide 
form; and whofe feeds are not winged with down. 
HESE are feparated by Nature in a very diftin® manner from all other plants: and the fingle 
i circumftance of their feeds having none of that downy matter which is annexed to thofe of 
the two preceding divifions, is an obvious and unalterable mark of the clafs: it joins them 
to one another, while it excludes the reft of the difcoide-flowered kinds. 
This was a character Linnzus could not but perceive; and, todo him the juftice due to his great 
accuracy in examination, he has never once omitted to name it; but unhappily the purpofe of his 
fyftem being to exclude all but the minuter parts from the diftinétions of claffes, he could not uf it 
for this end. 
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SE oReds BS I; 
Natives of BRITAIN, 
Thofe of which one or more {pecies are naturally wild in this country. 
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CORN MARYGOLD. 
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¢ Boe flower is compofed of many flofcules, of two kinds, arranged in a difk or rounded head, 
and furrounded wich numerous petals as rays; and it is placed in a hemifpheric cup, made of 
numerous and clofe-compaéted {cales. The flofcules in the centre of the difk are tubular ; thofe on the 
rim are flat, and the feeds are oblong, 
Linneeus places this and all the fucceeding genera of the prefent clafs among the /yngenefia, 
ITV IS: 1 O N= i Bo Te 1 So re Seba Glens 
1. Common Corn Marygold. rated at the edges; and their colour is a pale, 
Chryfanthemum fegetum vulgare. 
The root is long, and hung about with many 
fibres. 
The ftalk is lender, upright, very much 
branched, and two feet high, 
The leaves are oblong, fharp-pointed, and fer- 
bluifh green. 
The flowers terminate the branches ; and they 
are large and yellow. 
It is common in our corn-fields, and flowers 
in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Bellis lutea foliis profunde 
incifis. ‘ 
2. Small 
