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The flowers ftand in great numbers at the tops 
of the branches; and they are {mall and white, 
with a yellow difk. 
It is common in wafte ground, and flowers in 
June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Matricaria vulgaris. 
The flowers in this plant, and in the {weet 
chamomile, and fome others, are deficient fome- 
times in the rays; whence they have been di- 
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vided into two fpecies, and thefe imperfe& plants, 
called naked feverfew, naked chamomile, and the 
like, ; 
The virtues of Severfew are very great. . It is 
an excellent deobftruent. It promotes the menfes, 
and cures thofe hyfterick complaints whith rife 
from their obftruétion. It alfo deftroys worms. 
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WATER HEMP-AGRIMONY. 
PBR Be BASAL Neg. 
THE flower is compofed of numerous flofcules, enclofed in a common cup. The flofcules are tu- 
bular, and divided at the rim into five pointed fegments, 
which ftand erect. There are fome- 
times flat flofcules on the verge, but not conftantly. The cup is formed of numerous, narrow: 
pointed, and hollowed fcales. The feeds have points, 
and ftick by them to any thing they touch. ” 
Linnaeus places this among the Lngencfia with the others, 
1. Water Hemp-Agrimony, with divided leaves. 
Verbefina foltis tripartitis. 
The root confifts of numerous fibres, con- 
nected to a fmall head. 
The ftalks are upright, and a yard high, very 
much branched, and of a brownifh colour, 
The leaves are large, and divided into three 
principal fegments ; which are tharp-pointed and 
ferrated ; and they are of a deep green colour. 
The flowers ftand on the. extremities of the 
ftalks ; and they are yellow: fometimes they are 
naked, and fometimes they have rays of a brighter 
yellow. i 
It is common by ditch-fides, and flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cannabina aquatica folio tri- 
Partito divifo. 
2. Large-flowered Water Hemp-Agrimony. 
Verbefina flore majore integrifclia. 
The root is long, and hung with very nu- 
merous fibres. 
The ftalk is upright, not much branched, and 
two feet high. 
Gauenh SN pel 
The leaves are oblong, broad, fharp-pointed, 
and ferrated, but not divided into three parts, as 
in the other. 
The flowers are very large and yellow. 
It is frequent in the weft of England, and the 
flowers are almoft always radiated, It flowers in 
Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cannabina aquatica folio non 
divifo. 
3. Dwarf Hemp-Agrimony. 
Verbefina pumila flore magno. 
The root is fibrous. 
The ftalk is fingle, upright, purplifh, not at 
all branched, and ten inches high. 
The leaves are oblong, moderately broad, 
fharp-pointed, ferrated lightly on the edges, and 
of a brownifh green. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks ; 
and are naked, large, and yellow. 
It is found in bogey places, and fowers in Au- 
uit. ; 
Ray calls it Verbefina minima, 
The virtues of thefe plants are not certainly 
known, 
X. 
TAS Ne ZY 
Tei: Nee 6 OBIS UM, 
HE flower is naked, and compofed of numerous flofcules. Thefe are all of one kind: they are 
T tubular, and wide open at the mouth, where they divide into five reflex fegments. Thefe are 
all contained in a common cup; whichis of a hemifpheric figure, and is compofed of numerous, 
pointed fcales, clofe fet together. 
The feeds are oblong. 
Linnzus places this with the reft among the /yngenefia. 
Common Tanzy. 
Tanacetum vulgare. 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres, con- 
nected to a fmall head. 
The leaves are very large, and of a fine ftrong 
green: they are deeply divided into oblong feg- 
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ments, which are ferrated and fharp-pointed, and 
often they are curled at the edges. 
The ftalk rifes in the midft of a clufter of 
thefe; and is a yard high, upright, not much 
branched, and thick ‘fet with leaves, like thofe 
from the root. 
The flowers grow in great clufters at the 
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