4/8 SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 



The root dug up in the fpring is refinous, and 

 aromatic. A drachm of it in a dofe has been 

 fometimes given as a fudorific alexipharmic, but 

 as it pofTefTes thofe virtues but in a fmall degree, 

 it has loil its reputation in the Ihops. 



SENECIO. Gen, j>L gs3- 



Recept, nudum. Pappus fimplex. Cal. cylindricus, 

 calyculatus; fquamis apice Iphacelatis. 



* Florihus Jiofculofis, 



vulgaris i. SENECIO corollis nudis, foliis pinnato-finuatis 

 amplexicaulibus, floribus fparfis. Sp. pL 121 6, 

 {Ger, em. 278. /. 1. Blackwell /. 132. Oed. Dan. 

 513. opt.) 

 Common Groundfel. Anglis. 

 Am bualan. Gaulis, 



In gardens and wafte grounds common. O. IV-IX. 

 The ilalk is ered, angular, branch'd, a foot high, 

 thick, and fucculent : the leaves are numerous, 

 green, (lightly cover'd with a cobweb down, fe- 

 file and wide at the bafe, pinnatifid, the feg- 

 ments and infterilices ferrated : the flowers grow 

 in cluilers at i\\q fummits of the branches, yel- 

 low, and without rays : the calyx confiits of one 

 one feries of linear acute fcales with black apices ; 

 at the bafe of the calyx are feveral fliort fupple- 

 i-nenrary fcales, which have alfo black fummits : 

 the i'ecds are of a long elliptic form, and fur- 

 rovv'd. 



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