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Whole sissidnlat Cup i is formed only of one oval hollow bars 
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Charaéter of the Genus. + 3300119) 
The Head is flat, loofe, and compofed of few Flowers... The general Cup 
is longer than the Flowers, and confifts of five oblong Leaves in a fingle 
~ Range. The feparate Flowers are tubular, and cut into five parts; and 
there are outer Ranges flat, and cut into three. 
pace ee Plate 43. @ 6. 
e STMPt &- be Av -D: BIRD WEED. 
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“Charader of the Species, can Sigefbeckia Orientalis. | 
_ The Leaves have F ootftalk which rife imple and. naked from the Stem. 
; Fig. 3, ab, 
~ Trg is an Annual, native of China, and the Indies ; a Plant of more abet than 
beauty, flowering in July and Auguft. The Stalk is brownifh, firm, and more than a 
yard inheighth. The Leaves are of a bright green; the Flowers are yellow ; the Cup 
is alfo yellowith, and its gigndalar hairs are brown. | 
“a. ALATED BIRDWEED.- 
"Plate 43. Fig. 2. | 
Charaéter of the Siecle | os | - “Sigetheckia Occidentalis 
The Leaves have winged Footttalks, which run down the Stem. 
2 Fj b, 
| RS is a = Bicuntal native of Virginia ae Carolina ; ; afingular and not Geet 
; flowering i in July. ‘The Stalk is of a reddifh brown, but edg’d with green from the © 
Footftalks of the Leaves.in a very pretty manner. It grows to near two feet in heighth. 
The Leaves are of a dark green; and the Flowers are yellow. The Heads in this 
Species are apt to drop their outer Cups, as fome of the Radiate F lowers do their Rays. 
“Eis neceflary to name this ; ; or it might perplex t the ftudent. 
“Turse are Plants of chile kind, which naturally perplex the inventors: of isidigint 
fyftems ; for they carry the proper marks of different Claffes: -but they are of infinite 
value in the method of nature. ‘They are the frontier kinds, between the Radiate and 
Aggregate Plants, joining the two Claffes, but belonging diftinCtively to neither. They 
have the marks of both; and we have repeated them under each. ‘They belong to the 
Radiates by the union of their Chives; to the Ag BEregates, by their general and feparate 
Cups. 5 
ACG GREG A -T E S, 
