49C SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMf A SUPERFt.UA. 



detrimental to the hufbandman, that a law is in 

 force in Denmark^ which obliges the inhabitants 

 every where to eradicate them out of their 

 grounds. 

 This noxious weed is faid to be deftroyed by dung- 

 ing the foil where it grows in the Autumn, by 

 letting it lie fallow one fummer, and by harrow- 

 ing the ground in about five days after fowing 

 the feeds for the future crop. Lin, FL Suec, 762. 



MATRICARIA. Geju pi 967. 



Recepl, nudum. Pappus nuUus. CaL hcmifphasrl- 

 cus, imbricatus; fquamis marginalibus folidio, 

 acutiufculis. 

 partheniam MATRICARIA foliis compofitis planis, foliolis 

 I. ovatis incifis, pedunculis ramofis. Sp. pi, 1255. 



(Ger, emac. 652./. i. ?ct. kerb, t, 19./. 5. Black- 

 well ty 1 92. J 



Feverfew. Anglis. 



In wade places near houfes and gardens, and iome- 

 rinies in corn-fields. Mr. Stuart. $ ,3.%. VII. 

 Vlll. 



The flalk is ered, a yard high, and branched : 

 the leaves are (lightly downy, foft and tender, 

 of a pale green colour, compof«;d of fix pair of 

 finn(e, with an odd trifid one at the extremity. 

 Thefe pinnce are nearly oval and pinnatifid, their 

 fe-gments again obtufcly ferratcd. 



The flowers grow in an umbel upon branched pe- 

 duncles, and have yellow difcs with white rays : 

 the fcales of the calyx have dry membranaceous 



margins. 



