The VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
3. LOOSE SPIKED BUTTER BURR. 
Plate 90. Fig 6 . 
Character of the Species. Tullilago alba. 
The Flowers hand in a loofe fhort Spike, on divided naked 
Footllalks. 
Plate 6. a b. 
This is a Perennial, native of Germany, and flowers in April: 
the Stalk is pale, the Leaves are of a deep green, and the Flowers 
quite white. 
*** Linnaeus joins the Butterburr and Coltsfoot in one Genus. 
Nature has connedted, not united them. The Plant, Plate 19, 
N°. 3. is intermediate between the two Genera. 
GENUS IV. 
MAYWEED. 
C O T U L A. 
Chara£ter of the Genus. 
The Cup has two rows of broad, equal, expanded Scales, 
longer than the Florets. 
Plate 91. 0 a b. 
1. PINNATIFID MAYWEED. 
Plate 91. Fig. 1. 
Chara&er of the Species. Cotula anthemoides. 
The Leaves are pinnatirid, and their Segments are fub- 
diviaed. 
Fig. 1 . a b. 
This is a Perennial, native of Spain and Italy, and flowers in 
May ; a weak, low, and unregarded Plant, though of fufficient 
Angularity. The Stalks lean on the ground, and are not more than 
feven or eight inches in length : the Leaves are of a deep and dulky 
green, and the Flowers are yellow : they are fmall ; but their large 
Cup, which is often tinged with crimfon, renders them confpicuous. 
2. A M- 
