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The vegetable SYSTEM. 
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GENUS V. 
T R I D A X. 
Chara£lerof the Genus. 
The Cup is cylindric: the Scales are hmilar, ered, egg’d, 
and fharp pointed. 
Plate 47. 0 a h. 
Of this Genus we know only a Angle Species. 
I. DECUMBENT TRIDAX. 
Plate 47 Fig. i. 
Charader of the Species. Tridax procumbens 
The Stalk leans, and the Leaves ftand in pairs. 
Fig. I. a h. 
This is a Perennial, a fmall but a very delicate and Angular Plant, 
native of Vera Cruz. It Aowers in AuguA. The Root creeps, and 
the Stalk, as it ArA grows from it, lies upon the ground. The 
Leaves are of a very Ane green, but often tinged with brown. The 
Stalk feldom rifes to more than a foot high, and fupports only a 
Angle Flower : but this is very beautiful j it is of the AAer form, 
but of the Ane Orange colour of our deepeA Marygolds. Its growth 
is particular : its FootAalk rifes from the top of the main Aem : yet 
is not its proper termination, though it appears fo. It grows from 
the bofom of one of the upper pair of Leaves, the Stalk terminating 
in a Bud by its Ade. As the Flower fades, this Bud grows, and 
gives the Plant another afpedl. This is reprefented in the two Stems, 
Fig. I. No. I expreAing the Plant when the Flower ArA opens, and 
only a Bud is feen by it. No. 2. When the Flower is faded, and the 
Shoot is rifen to fome length. 
GENUS 
