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pears to afFe6t the weftern fide of the kingdom. 

 1^. VII. VIII. .5. 



The root confifts of long tumid fibres, crown'd 

 at the top with the dry brilliy remains of de- 

 cay'd leaves. 



The llalk is about a cubit high, of the fize of a 

 crow quill, eredt, and towards the top fparingly 

 branch'd, furnifli'd with only two or three dif- 

 tant leaves. 



The radical leaves are fix inches long, linear, 

 and undivided, apparently furrounded with 

 numerous whirls of capillary foliola, about a 

 quarter of an inch in length. Striftly fpeak- 

 ing however, thefe whirls are compos'd only 

 of oppofite and feffile pinnules, embracing a 

 common rib at their bafe, and divided deeply 

 into acute capillary fegments. 



The common umbel confifts of eight or ten rays, 

 the partial ones of about double that number, 

 their difc nearly plane. 



The common and partial involucra are compofed 

 each of five or fix oval acute foliola. 



The flowers are all hermaphrodite, the petals 

 white, i\\t feeds oval and longitudinally fur- 

 rowed. 



TRIGYNIA, 



