>ONIS AUTUMNALIS. PhEASANTS-EYE. 



ADONIS JJnnai Gen. PI. Polyandria PolygyniAo 



Cal. 5-phyllus. Peidla quinis plura abfque ne&ario, Bern. nuda. 

 RaiiSyn. Gen. 15. Herbje semine nudo polyspermy. 



ADONIS autumnalis floribns octopetalis, fru&ibus fubcylindricis. L'mnai Syfi. Vegetal, p. 427. Sp. 

 PL p. 771. 



ADONIS radice annua, flore octopetalo. Haller hiji. n. 11 58. 

 ADONIS autumnalis, Scopoli Flor. Carniol. n. 677. 

 ADONIS hortenfis, flore minore atrorubente. Bauhin Pin. 178. 

 FLOS ADONIS Parkinjon Parad. 293. 



FLOS ADONIS flore rubro. Gerard emac. 387. Raii Syn. 251, Adonis Flower, Red Maithes. 



Hudfon PI. Angl. ed. 1. p. 239. 



RADIX annua, craffitie digiti minimi, fufiformis, % ROOT annual, the thicknefs of the little finger, ta- 

 paucis fibrillis inftrucla. | pering, furnifhed with few fibres. 



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CAULIS pedalis, erettus, fubangulatus, fiftulofus, | STALK about a foot high, upright, fomewhat angu- 

 purpurafcens, villofus, ad bafin ufque ramo- y lar, hollow, purplifh, hoary, branched quite 



fus. % to the bottom. 



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RAMI plurimi, fparfi, cauli fimiles, erecti, caulem % BRANCHES numerous, placed irregularly on the ftalk, 



primo florentem plerumque fuperantes. | which they referable, upright, and general 'y 



I taller than the ftalk producing the firft fiower # 



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FOLIA alterna, e flavo viridia, infima petiolata, fu- | LEAVES alternate, of a yellowifh green colour ; the 



prema feffilia, pinnata, pinnis multifidis, ca- | lower ones (landing on foot-ftalks ; the upper 



pillaribus, acutis, fubtus nitidis. | ones feffile, pinnated; the pinnae divided in- 



| to numerous capillary fegments, pointed, and 



t mining on the under fide. 



CALYX: Perianthium pentaphyllum, foliolis fuh- $ CALYX: a Peri anthium of five leaves, which are 



ovatis, obtufis, inasqualibus, concavis, purpu- | fomewhat ova], obtufe, unequal, hollow, 



reis, deciduis, corolla brevioribus, apicibus | purple, deciduous, fhorter than the corolla, 



dentato-erofis, fig. r, 2. t the tips appearing as if bitten, jig. 1. 2. 



COROLLA: Pet alo o£to, raro plura, fiepe pauciora, f COROLLA: eight Petals, feldom more, oftener 



inaequalia, obcordata, coccinea, apice erofa, | fewer, unequal, inverfely heart-fhaped, fcar- 



bafi interne nigra, externe viridante,^. 3, 4 # y let, the tip irregularly notched, the bottom 



% internally black, externally greenifh, jig. 3, 4. 



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STAMINA : Filamenta plurima, quadraginta cir- % STAMINA : Filaments numerous, about forty, 



citer, filiformia, alba; Anthers ovatse, ob- | thread-fhaped, and white : Anthers oval, 



tufae, incurvatas, compreffae, atropurpureae : | obtufe, bending inward, flattened, of a black- 



Pollen croceum, fig. 5. % ifh purple colour: Pollen of afafFron colour, 



I fig* 5- 

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PISTILLUM : Germina plurima, in capitulum bre- | PISTILLUM : Germina numerous, upright, col- 



ve fubconicum imbricatim congefta, erecta: | lecled one over another into a fhort head, 



Stigmata acuta reflexa, fig. 6, 7. I fomewhat conical: Stigmata pointed, the 



I points turned back, fig. 6, 7. 



SEMINA fubangulata, acuta, reticulato-rugofa. ¥ SEEDS fomewhat angular, pointed, with a kind of 



* network wrinkled appearance. 



THE Pheajants-eye has a peculiar claim to an infertion in the Flora Londinenfis, as it is one of thofe plants 

 which are annually cried about our ftreets, under the name of red Morocco : it may neverthelefs be doubted, 

 whether it has not originally been conveyed from the garden to the dungheap, and from thence become 

 an ornamental annual weed in many of the corn-fields in Kent, and other Counties adjacent to London, in which 

 it feems as much at home, as the Ranunculus arvenjis, or Corn Crowfoot. 



There is no plant more variable in its Petals, both with refped to number and fize ; they therefore form 

 a bad fpecific character. 



It flowers in May, and the feed is ripe in June ; hence there appears an evident impropriety in calling 

 this fpecies autumnalis'. it will moft probably be found, that the autumnalis and ajlivalis are the fame. 



In the gardens, (where it is common,) it ufually flowers through great part of the Summer. 



