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2. Small-flowered Corn Marygold, 
Chryfanthemum flore minore. 
The root is compofed of many long, white 
fibres. , 
The ftalk is upright, branched, and two feet 
high, 
The leaves are large, and deeply divided at 
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Indian Corn Marygold. 
Chryfanthemum latifolium Indicum. 
The root is long, white, and hung with a 
few fibres. 
The ftalk is round, purplifh at the bafe, 
branched, and two feet high. 
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the edges, fo as to refemble the pinnated kinds 5 
and they are of a pale, bluifh green. - 
The flowers are very numerous, fmall, and 
yellow. 
We have it in corn fields in fome parts of the 
kingdom, but not frequent. It fowers in Auguft. 
Ray calls it Clry/anthemum Segetum noftras folig 
glauco multifciffo. 
FOREIGN SPECIES, 
The leaves are broad, fhort,  fharp-pointed, 
ferrated at the edges, and of a bright green. 
The flowers ftand at the fummits of the 
branches ; and are large, and of a pale yellow: 
It is a native of the Eaft and Weft Indies, and 
flowers in Augutt, 
Plukenet calls it Chryfanthemum Maderafpata- 
num oxycanthe foliis. 
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HE flower is radiated, and compofed of numerous flofcules; and is 
formed of many flender leaves. 
feeds are oblong. 
placed in a rounded cup, 
The flofcules in the central part of the difk are tubu- 
Jar, and thofe at the rim flat. The edge of the tubular flofcules is cut into five fegments ; and the — 
Linnzeus places this with the reft among the Lngenefia. 
Common Ox-Eye, 
Buphthalmum vulgare. 
The root is long, and furnifhed with many 
fibres. 
The ftalk is round, upright, very much 
branched, and two feet and a half high. 
The leaves are large, of a fine green, and very 
beautifully divided in a pinnated manner into ob- 
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long fegments; which are fharp-pointed, and fer2 
rated at the edges. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches $ 
and are very large, and of a fine gold yellow. 
We have it damp grounds in fome of our 
northern counties. It flowers in Augutft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Buphthalnum tanaceti mi- 
noris foliis. 
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PTARMICA. 
HE flower is radiated, and compofed of numerous flofcules ; and is placed in a cup of an oval 
form, compofed of fmall, fharp-pointed, and convergent fcales. 
The flofcules in the difk are 
tubular, and cut into five gaping fegments at the edge: the flofcules in the edge are few in number; 
and each is divided in a heart-like manner at the top, and has a very fmall fegment in the midit of 
the divifion. The feed is oval. 
Linnaeus places this among the fymgenefia, joining it under one cornmon head with the yarrow, 
and calling the genus Achillea. 
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Common Sneezewort. 
Ptarmica vulgaris. 
The root is long, flender, and hung with 
many fibres. 
The ftalk is round, upright, and two feet and 
a half high, of a pale green, and branched. 
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The leaves are long, narrow, of a deep green, 
rough on the furface, fharp-pointed, and ferrated 
at the edges. ; 
The flowers are very numerous, fmall, and 
white: they ftand in the tops of the branches. 
Itis commonon damp ditch-banks, and flowers 
in Auguft, 
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