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In dry barren paftures common. i[.VI. 



The calyx of this kind is black and hairy : the 

 flower fulphur-color'd, the exterior florets red on 

 the under fide. Jt opens at eight o'clock in the- 

 morning, and clofes at two in the afternoon.--— 

 The infe<5l called by IJnn^us Co-ecus Filojella vA" 

 heres to the roots of this plant. 



** C auk folio fo muluflcro, 



muYorum 4 H. caule ramofo •, foliis radicalibus ovatis dentatls, 

 caulino minori. Sp, pi. 1128. {G-cr, em. 304./. r, 

 2. Pet. herb, /. 1;-^./. 2, 3, 4, 5. J. Bauh. //, />. 

 1034. bene. Moris, hiji. f. 7. /. 5. /. 54) 

 Wall Hawkweed, French Lungwort. Anglis, 

 In woods and on walls and rocks frequent. %, VII. 

 This plant varies exceedingly, as appears from the 

 diflTerent figures which are given of it. Its ge- 

 neral appearance is as follows : The root produces 

 one flender flalk, a foot high, fcatter'd with hairs, 

 having one lateral branch, and producing but few 

 flowers : the leaves are chiefly radical, of an oval- 

 acute form, dented on the edges particularly at 

 the bafe, are fcattered with a fev/ hairs, are red- 

 dilh underneath, and fliand on foot-fl:alks. The 

 fl:alk has commonly one or two leaves towards 

 its bafe like the preceding, only fmaller, and 

 fupported alfo by a footfl:alk : the branches are 

 are long, naked, bearing each two or three yellow 

 flowers : the calyx is blackifb, covered with ki^^ 

 cous hairs : the feeds black and furrow'd : from 

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