SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA SUPERFLOA. 485 



the rays of the flower are numerous, narrov, 

 and terminated with three acute dents : the down 

 of the feeds is reddifh, each hair of it finely 

 dented on one fide. 

 The root is acrid, bitter, and aromatic : a con- 

 ferve of it flands recommended in afthmas, and 

 other diforders of the bread and lungs, as good 

 to promote expedoration. The decoclion of it 

 in water, or an infufion in wine, or a fpirituo«s 

 cxtrad, are alfo extoll'd as a ftomachic and fu- 

 dorific, and are therefore prefcrib'd in crudities 

 of the flomach, bad digeftions, the hypochon- 

 dria, and contagious difeafes. Outwardly ap- 

 plied, a decodlion of it is faid to cure the itch. 

 Bruifcd and macerated in urine, with balls of 

 afhes and whortle berries, it dyes a blue colour. 



DORONICUM. G^f/. ;>/. 959. 



Recept, nudum. Pappus fimplex. Calycis fquamJE 

 duplicis ordinis sequalcs, difco longiores. Sem. 

 radii nuda pappoque deftituta. 



DORONICUM foliis cordatis obtufis denticulatis, 

 radicalibus petiolatis, caulinis amplexicaulibus. 

 Sp,pL 1247. (Ger, em, 762./. 7. Moris biji. f, 7, 

 /. 24./. 4. Miller ic. 128. Blackwell t, 239.) 



Great Leopard's Bane, or Wolf's-Bane. Jnglis, 



We obferved it in feveral places in the lowlands, 

 a» about Hoddam caftle, in Jmandaky &c. but 

 always near houfes, fo that we fufped it not to 

 be indigenous, but as it feems to be naturalized 



