4SO The B R I T I S 
4. Narrow-leaved hoary Golden Rod. 
yirga aurea anguJiifoUa incnna. 
The root is compofed of numerous, thick fibres. 
The ftalk is round, redifli, and fix or eight 
inches high. 
The leaves are long, narrow, obtufe, of a pale 
green, and a little hairy. 
The flowers Itand in clufters at the top of the 
ftalk, and on long footflalks from the bofoms of 
the leaves : it is not uncommon in the weft of 
England, and flowers in Auguft. 
Ray calls it Virga aurea montana folio angufio 
fubincano fiofculis conglobctn- 
5. Broad-leaved, indented Golden Rod. 
Vtrga aurea folia angufio ferrato maxima. 
The root is long and creeping, and is hung 
with numerous fibres. 
H HERBAL. 
The ftalk is round, upright, and toward the 
bottom redifli ; and it is four feet high. 
The leaves are long, broad, fharp-pointed, 
elegant!/ ferrated at the edges, and of a fine 
green. 
The flowers ftand in great numbers on the tops 
of the branches, into which the ftalk divides at 
the fummit ; and they are large and yellow. 
We have it in dry, wafte grounds in our nor- 
thern counties. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls Virga aurea anguflifclia /er- 
rata. Others, SoUdago farracencia^ Saracen'' s 
confound. 
All the kinds of golden rod are aftringent and 
vulnerary i but they are not ufed at prefent. 
DIVISION II. • FOREIGN SPECIES. 
Knotted American Golden Rod. 
Virga aurea ad clas flcrida. 
The root is long, and furnifhed with many 
fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, but tolerably 
upright, of a pale green, and two feet or more high- 
The leaves are broad, fiiort, and beautifully 
ferrated, ftiarp pointed, and of a fine green. 
The flowers are numerous and fmall: they 
ftand at the top ol the ftalks, and in the bofoms 
of all the leaves, in clufters i and they are fmall 
and yellow. 
It is a native of Virginia, and flowers in 
July- 
Plukenet calls it Virga aurea ad foUorum alas 
fiorifera. 
GENUS VIL 
RAGWORT. 
J J C 0 B jE A. 
THE flower is compofed of numerous flofcules, ranged in a common cup. This is fliort, of a 
cylindric figure i and compofed of numerous, oblong, pointed fcales. The flofcules are of 
two kinds, tubular in the centre of the diflc, and flat at the verge ; the flower being radiated. The 
feeds are winged with a fine down. 
DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
I. Common Ragwort. 
Jacobaa vulgaris. 
The root confift'S of numerous, thick fibres, 
conoLifted to a fmall head. 
The ftalk is upright, thick, not much branched, 
and two feet high. 
The leaves are divided into five fegments, and 
are of a deep green. 
The flowers ftand in great clufters at the tops 
of the ftalks ; and are large, and yellow. 
It is common by way-fides, and flowers in 
June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Jacobs a vulgaris lacmiata. 
2. Hoary, groundfel-Ieaved Ragwort. 
Jacob^a fenicjoms folio incana. 
The root is fibrous and whitifli. 
The ftalk is two feet high, redifli, upright, 
and not much branched. 
The leaves are large^ divided, and of a greyifh 
green on the upper-fide, and whitifli under- 
neath. 
The flowers ftand at the tops in clufters ; and 
are large and yellow. 
It is common in paftures, and flowers in Au- 
guft. 
Ray calls it Jacobaa fcnicionis folio incana fe- 
rennis. 
3. Broad-leaved Mar fli- Ragwort. 
Jacobaa palufris latifoUa. 
The root is fibrous. 
The ftalk is two feet and a half high, upright, 
and divided into many branches. 
The leaves are large, broad, ferrated at the 
edges, and a little notched toward the bafe. 
The flowers ftand ac the tops of the ftalks, and 
are large and yellow. 
It is common about waters, and flowers in 
July- 
C. Bauhine calls it Jacobaa Alpbia laciniata 
flore bupthhalmi. Others, Jacobaa aquaiica. 
4. Mountain- 
