SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 4^' 



The (lalk is two or three feet high, ftriated, ered, 

 and branched : the leaves are generally green, 

 without any down or hoarinefs ; the radical ones 

 are pinnatifid at the bafe only, with a large, oval, 

 finnated fegment at the extremity : thofe on the 

 ftalk are pinnatifid throughout, their fegments 

 laciniated ; the flowers grow in upibels, and are 

 yellow and radiated : the peduncles are generally 

 downy, the calyx fmooth, the fcales blackifh at 

 the tips i the rays patent, and about 12 in num- 

 ber: the hermaphrodite florets in the difc about 

 60. 

 ^' The flowers arc fometimes, but very rarely, feen 



without rays. 



aquaticus y Another Angular variety of this plant, which 

 many authors confider as a diflind: fpecies, often 

 occurs in wet places, and by the fides of lakes. 



The radical leaves of this ftand on long footilaLcs, 

 are oval, and dented on the edges. Thofe f n 

 the lower part of the ftalk are pinnatifid at the 

 bafe, and terminated with a large oval dented 

 lobe : but the uppermofl of all are generally 

 pinnatifid to the end. The flowers are the fame 

 as in the common fort. Vid. fig. (Ger. em, 280. 

 /. 3, ?et, herb, /. 17, /. 2. Loefel Flor, Pruf, p. 

 129, /. ^. 35, bona,) 



Water Ragwort. Anglis. %. VII. VIII. 



The leaves of thefe plants have a bitter and fome- 

 what acrid tafl:e : a decodion of them will dye 

 green, but the colour does not Hand well. 



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