SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA SQUALLS. 463 



In marfhy places, and by the fides of lakes. Dr. 

 Parfons, o. VIIL 



The whole plant is fmooth, a cubit high, and 

 branched : the leaves are lanceolate, ferrated, 

 oppofite to each other, fefTile, and coalefcent at 

 the bafe : the flowers grow fingly at the tops of 

 the branches, and after fhedding their feminal 

 powder, hang down their heads : the lower fcales 

 of the calyx are foliaceous ; the flowers are yel- 

 low, and fometimes radiated, but not often ; the 

 feed is quadrangular, and has four beards, two of 

 which are longer than the others. 



mimwa (3. A fmall variety of this fometimes occurs, from 

 three to fix inches, which fome authors have made 

 a difl:incl fpecies, becaufe the heads of flowers 

 arc ered. But this is not always the cafe, for we 

 have often {cqii them nod, and are therefore 

 fully perfuaded that it is either an autumnal 

 feedling, produced from an early plant of the 

 preceding, with which it grows promifcuouily, 

 or elfe is rendered dwarfifh by fome accidents of 

 growth. (See the figures of it in liay's Synops, 

 p. in. /. 7./. 2. ^Oed. FL Dan, /. 312.) 

 This has nearly the fame virtues with the preced- 

 ing, but rather in an inferior degree. It alfo 

 dyes yellow. 



EUPATORIUM. Gev. pL 955, 



RecepL nudum. Pappus plumofus. CaL imbricatus, 



oblongus. Stylus femibifldus, longu^. 



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