The vegetable SYSTEM. 
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ORDER II. 
With the Cup simple: or formed of a fingle row of 
Scales. 
G E N U S I. 
H E M P - A G R I M O N Y. 
B I D E N S. 
Chara£ter of the Genus. 
The Cup is broad ; and its Scales are equal, pointed, and 
hollowed lengthwife. 
Plate 18 Fig. 0 a a b. 
I. DROOPING HEMP AGRIMONY. 
Plate 18. Fig. I. Undivided leav’d Hemp Agrimony. 
Chara£ler of the Species. Bidens cernuda. 
The Leaves embrace the Stalk ; the Flowers hang droop- 
ing ; and the feeds fland ftrait. 
Fig. l a he. 
This is an Annual, three feet high, native of our ditch-fides, and 
flowers in Autumn. The Stalks are tinged with crimfon ; the 
Leaves are of a deep green, and have fomething of the fame rednefs. 
The Flowers are of a delicate yellow, and there are feveral oblong 
Leaves under the Cup. The feeds do not fpread, but ftand ftrait. 
The Rays often grow to the Scales of the Cup. 
2. VERTICILLATE H E M P - A G R I M O N Y. 
Plate 18. Fig. 2. 
Chara£ler of the Species. Bidens verticillata 
The Flowers grow in circles round the Stalks, and the 
Leaves are hoary underneath. 
Fig. I. a. a. b. 
This is an Annual, native of Vera Cruz ; alow Plant flowering 
moft part of the year. The Stalk is reddifti j it trails upon the 
VoL. IT. Z ground 
