THE 
BRITISH HERBAL. 
CLASS xxviir. 
Plants whofe flower is comfofed of many flofcules, arranged in a difcoide 
form ; and whofe feeds are not winged with down. 
THESE are feparated by Nature in a very diftina manner from all other plants : and the fingle 
c.rcumftance of their feeds having none of that downy matter which is annexed to thole of 
the two preceding dmfions, is an obvious and unalterable mark of the clafs : it joins them 
to one another, while it excludes the reft of the difcoide flowered kinds. 
This was a charafler Linnaeus could not but perceive ; and, to do him the juftice due to his creai: 
accuracy m exammation, he has never once omitted to name it; but unhappily the purpofe of his 
fyftem benjg to exclude all but the minuter parts from the diftinftions of clafles, he could not ufe it 
for this end. 
SERIES I. 
Nati-ves o/" B e i t a r n. 
Thofe of which one or more fpecies are naturally wild in this country. 
GENUS I. 
CORN MARYGOLD. 
CHRTSANTHEMUM. 
rpHE flower is compofed of many flofcules, of two kinds, arranged in a diflc or rounded head 
-I and furrounded w.h numerous petals as rays ; and it is placed in a hemifpheric cup, m .de of 
numerous and clofe-compafted leaks. The flofcules in the centre of the diflc are tubular ; thofe on th 
rim are flat, and the feeds are oblong. 
Linna:us places this and all the fuccecding genera of the prefent clafs among the/j«^«/«. 
DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
I. Common Corn Marygold. 
Chryfanthemum fegelum vtilgare. 
The root is long, and hung about with many 
fibres. 
The ftalk is flender, upright, very much 
branched, and two feet high. 
The leaves are oblong, (harp-pointed, and fcr- 
rated at the edges ; and their colour is a pale, 
bkiilh green. * 
The flowers terminate the branches ; and they 
are large and yellow. 
It IS common in our corn-fields, and flowers 
in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Bellis lu'.m Mis trofmdc 
lnc:/is, 
2. Small 
