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this Genus : but the next ftep brings us home. This is a native of 
Germany and of the South of France, where it gilds, as it were, the 
fhadowy bottoms of the hills with its innumerable Flowers all the 
latter part of Summer. The Stalk is firm and pale ; the Leaves are 
of a greyhli green, and the Flowers beautifully yellow. It lives in 
our open borders with little care, and flowers in vaft profufion. 
3. GLOSSY-LEAVED OX-EYE. 
Plate 37. Fig. 3. 
Character of the fpecies. Bupthalmum grandiflorum. 
The Leaves are lanced, dented, and perfeclly fmooth. 
Fig. 3. a b. 
This alfo Is a Perennial, native of the European hills, and flowers 
in vaft abundance in our open borders. The Plant is two feet high; 
the Stalks are hard, green, but little branched, and leafy. The 
Leaves are of a glolTy green ; the Flowers are very large and yellow; 
but the Rays are narrow, and there is a natural opennefs between 
them, which greatly hurts the full look of the Flov/er. 
HAVE this Plant at Bayfwater with the Leaf undivided at the 
edge, but it is merely a variety, no diflindion of Species. 
GENUS III. 
B O I L - W E E D. 
B U B O N I U M. 
Charader of the Genus. 
The Scales of the Cup are di/Timilar, and the lower range 
is long and leafy. 
Plate 40. Fig. o a. 
It is the cufiom to unite the Plants which compofe this Genus with 
the Buphthalmum ; but the diftlndtive character is abfolute : the 
name we have here given the Genus Is as old as the firfb Naturallfts ; 
an j 
