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Chara@ter of the Genus. : 
The Head is nearly globular ; but a little inclining to oval“. The general 
Cup is compofed of two Ranges of Segments, feathery at the ends". The 
feparate Cup ° is compofed of three Ranges of feathery Segments ; the 
outermoft confifting of four *, the next of three ®, and the innermoft of 
two’. The feparate wis! is compofed of five Petals {plit at the 
ends *, 
s Plate 42,0,46.cde fg. 
Of this Genus we know only one Species. 
WINGED CUMMIN-WEED. j 
Plate 42. 
Character of the Species. _ ~ . Lagoecia Cumincides. 
The Leaves are we 'ds and their Leafits are indented. 
“Fe 1.ab. 
Turis is an Annual, a fmall and inconfiderable, but moft extreamly fingular Plant, 
native of the Greek iflands, and of fome of the warmer parts of Europe; flowering in 
May and June. The Stalk is weak, round, of a pale green, and toward the top, — 
branches out wildly. The Leaves are of a faint, and fomewhat whitifh green. The | 
Flowers are white, with a flight tinge of green or yellowifh; fometimes, and indeed | 
always in Greece, white entirely. _ . | 
Turs is one of thofe Plants which has perplexed moft of the writers in Botany where 
to place it. T he name of Cummin-weed or wild Cummin, given it by our old Eng- 
lifh writers, like that of Cuminoides, by thofe of a fomewhat higher Clafs in bier 
“languages, fhew how very ill they judged of it : the more accurate have been extreamly 
perplexed about its feparate Cup, which is the great article for finding its true place un~ 
der a proper claffical diftribution. They have fuppofed it to be two diftinct bodies, 
but it is in nature only one: the parts of which it is compofed, rife all from one com- 
mon bafe; and it differs from the Cup of the Globe Thiftle, only in the Films ftand- 
ing more remote. None will doubt the feparate Cup in that Plant being imbricated ; 
nor ought _ therefore to doubt the fame of this. 
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