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ly and iresnlaiy divided into numerous jacged , 
| Segnterits. “*Pheir Colour is a fine’ trong and a 
“ively green ; and the Middle Rib, which is very 
large on™ the tinder Part, is red, like the Stalk,. — 
and dufted: bret Wel the fame greyith Pow. 
| der . 
the Flowers aiaiailee the Divifions ‘of the | 
Branches; which’ aré“-innumerable. They are. 
large and’ beautiful’: “the ‘Rays até of a fine deep: 
-Crimfon; and thé Difk’ of Central’ Button yellow.’ 
The Struéturé ‘of thé entire Flower is this: “Av 
Conic Cup, form?d of a ‘Nuniber of narrow, ob- 
long,: and pointed Scales: ‘futrounded at the Bafe 
with 4 few fhort: ‘and broad ones, contains -a Clu-" 
| ter of- tubular Plofeules; arrarig” d into’a rounded. 
| ‘Difk ; and afew broad, oblong, and elegant Rays 
_furrounding them. 
re “The F fofbites j in the Difk have each five F fe 
Jan HE Vig of Nature is in fous Plants 
“— | feen | more gracefully than this. The 
Stalk fpreads; “without the leaft Regula- 
XXI._ rity, into innumerable Branches; and thefe are all 
Fig. 1.. crown’d with great Numbets of fhewy Flowers ; 
trot double, as Culture gives ‘many Kinds, but as 
we fee the ‘Hedge-Weeds rife” from an s fow- 
ing, loxuriant in Simplicity.” 
T he long Rays of ‘the - Flower, Have, in the 
it by that’ Generical Name. © a | py onty 
annuus Senicionis foliis, i8 its Title in ComME- 
LINE. 
‘ Linn us reduces it to the Senecios and its 
tion 1s Senecio corollis pia Bies 
proper Denomina 
/ alee laciniatis, annua. = 
The Root is fibrous, white, and e a 1 “bitter. | / ments, with coalefcent Buttons. There is alfo i in, 
Tafte 7 | the Centre. of each an oval Rudiment of a Seed, 
e) and a fingle Style flit at the Top. Thefe there-. 
fore are ‘Hermaphrodite. Flowers : thofe in, the, 
Verge are Female ‘only’; but both: ripen Seeds, 
which are wing’d with Down. 7 
“The Coalefcence of the Buttons thews the Plant 
one of the Sympenefia, and as the ‘Central Flowers 
| can ripen their own Seeds, the Impregnation of 
the 
: The Stalk is weak, irregularly upright, diffus’d 
snto innumerable Branches ;- in Colour, ~Crim-" 
fon, dufted - with' white ; and hung’ about with 
4 white woolly Down. : | 
The Leaves ftand as irregularly as the Branches ; 
but they are-numierous and of a handfome Figure. | 
They are long, moderately broad, and very-deép-" | 
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