202 SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
maphrodite flower is funnel-fhaped, the brim is quin- 
quifid or quadrifid, acute, reflex, and longer than the 
ray. There are five hermaphrodite, hairy, very Ihort 
filaments with a cylindrical tubulofe anthera. The 
germen in both is fhort, the fliyle thread-like and longer 
than the ftamina, having a thickifh fligma and the fe- 
minine a bifid ftigma. The cup contains a Angle, ob- 
long, comprefied feed crov/ned wdth hairy down. 
Farfara. Common Colt's- Foot with an imbricated flralk, 
bearing a Angle flower, cordate, angulaced, denticulated 
leaves. Per. March. 
Flyhrida. Long-ftalked Butter- hur with an oblong 
thyrfe, and many naked feminine flofcules. Near Lough- 
horoiigh in Leicefifh. Mr Hill. Per. March. 
Petafitis. Common Butter -hur with an oval thyrfe and 
all the flofcules hermaphrodite. Per. Marcia April. 
S E N E C I O. Groundsel. 
The common cup is furniihed with another fmall cup 
and is conical and truncated. The fcales are fubulated, 
cylindrical, contiguous, equal, and a few cover the bafe 
like tiles, having deadly apices. The compound flower 
is higher than the cup. The hermaphrodite florets are 
tubulofe and numerous in the difk, and the feminine are 
ligulated in the ray. The proper hermaphrodite is fun- 
nel-fliaped, tlie brim is reflex and quinquifid, the femi- 
nine, when there are any, are oblong and obfoletely tri- 
dentated. There are five flender, fmall, hermaphrodite 
filaments, with a cylindrical, tubulofe anthera. The 
germen in both is oval, the fl:yle is flender and the length 
of the ftamina, having two oblong ftigmata turned back- 
ward. The cup is connivent and contains Angle, oval 
feeds and hairy long down. 
Obf. Senecio T urn. wants the common ray of the co- 
rolla, which the Jacoh^sa of F um. has. 
Vulgaris. Common Groundfel or Sinifon with naked 
coroll^, pinnated, finuated leaves furreunding the ftaiks 
and thin fet flowers. An. May. 
Such 
