180 



The Flora of Wiltshire. 



(A.) dn magnentius. p.f. aug. (head of Emperor bare.) Rev.,| 

 Emperor on horse-back spearing an enemy, with inscription gloria 



ROMANORUM. 



(B.) dn : magnentius p.f. aug. (bare head of Emperor ?) Rev., 

 felicitas reipublice. Emperor standing with globe and eagle in 

 right hand, labarum in left, with the Christian monogram. 



Probably all the coins were struck in the lifetime of Constantine, 

 and not much later than A.D. 337, as they bear (for the most part) 

 the same types on the reverses. 



%\t (flora of 



COMPRISING THE 



f totting ffante attlr fan mltyzmm to i\t tantj; 



By Thomas Bruges Flower, M.R.C.S., F.L.S., &c, &c. 

 No. X. 



ORDER. COMPOSITE. (JUSS.) 



Plants having flowers composed of many florets, with united 

 anthers contained in one common receptacle, and surrounded by a 

 calyx-like involucrum. 



The Dandelion, Daisy, and Thistle, are types of three very 

 marked sections, the Corymbiferse Cynarocephalese, and Cichoraceae 

 of Jussieu ; but in the Linnsean orders these are of necessity much 

 confounded. 1 



SUB-ORDER I. CoRYMBIFERJE. 



Flowers of the disk tubular and perfect ; marginal flowers often 

 ligulate, and female or neuter. Style not swollen below its 

 branches. 



Eupatorium, (Linn.) Hemp- agrimony. 

 Linn. CI. xix. Ord. i. 

 Named from Eupator, the surname of Mithridates, king of Pontus, 

 who is said to have brought this plant into use. 



L E. cannabinum, (Linn.) common Hemp-agrimony. Cannabis 



1 On the structure of this Order, see 1 1 Wilts Archaeological Magazine," vol. ix,, 

 p. 162. 



