The vegetable system. 
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Leaves are funburnt and tawny. The Flowers are moderately large 
and yellow; three or four always crown the Ihoot, two or three 
rifing from the Cup of the original Flower. 
GENUS V. 
MAYWEED. 
C O T U L A. 
Charadter of the Genus. 
The Cup has two rows of broad equal expanded Scales, 
longer than the rays of the Flower. 
Plate 31. Fig. 0 a b, 
I. D O W N Y MAYWEED. 
Plate 31. Fig. i. 
Chara£l:er of the Species. pig. Cotula Turbinata 
The Leaves are downy and deeply divided into narrow 
Seo;ments. 
Fig. i. a b 
This is an Annual; a low, but very fingular little Plant, native of 
the Cape of Good Hope ; the great country for botanic fingularities : 
but it will bear the open air with us, and Ripen Seeds upon our ex- 
pofed borders. The Stalks are weak ; the Leaves are woolly ; the 
Flowers are white, with a yellow Diilc ; but the moft fingular part 
about them, is a large blue-green Cup, exceeding the Petals in extent. 
The receptacle naturally fwells at its Bafe, and gives the Bud of the 
Flower a peculiar form before it opens; fometimes alfo this turbinated 
fliape continues through the whole time of nowering ; but where the 
Plant is native, tlic Cup expands in this as well as the other Cotulas ; 
and it is the fame v/here it thrives in our gardens. It flowers in June. 
VoL. II. F f 2. C L y\ M * 
