2 10 SYNGENESIA POLYGAMI A NECESSARIA. 
SGlJlitialis. St Barnahy's ^hifile with thorny, folitary 
cups, the leaves on the branches decurrent and unarm- 
ed, and thoie on the ftalk lyrato-pinnatifid. By the 
hedg-es not far from Cirenccfier in GloucefierfJi. Dr Bob ard. 
R. Sy, An._ July, 
STNGENESIA POLTGAMIA NECESSARIA 
comprehends fuch plants as have the fiowers of the dijk 
malCy and thofe of the radius female, 
OTHONNA. Ragwort. 
The common cup is very fimpie, monophyllous, and 
obttife at the bafe-, acute, equal, and divided into eight or 
twelve fegments. The compound flower is radiated; 
there are many hermaphrodite florets in the difle. The 
feminine florets in the ray are the fame in number as 
the fegments of the cup, often eight. The proper her- 
maphrodite flower is tubulofe, quinquedentated, and 
fcarce longer than the cup. The feminine is ligulated, 
ianceolated, longer than the cup, tridentated and reflex. 
There are five hairy very fhorc ftamina, with cylindra- 
ceous, tubuloie antherse the length of the florets. The 
hermaphrodite germen is oblong, the ftyle flender, com- 
monly longer than the ftamina; the ftigmia is bifid and 
fimpie, but the feminine ftigma is reflex and larger. 
The cup is permanent having fimpie, oblong, naked or 
pappous feeds. 
Faluftris, Marfh Fleahane wnth Ianceolated, dentated, 
finuated leaves. In fens, ditches, and mofles. About 
Filiin Mofs^ Lan . ' Burton Mofs^ IFeft, Per. Aug, 
Integrifolia. Mountain Ragwort with Ianceolated, den- 
ticulated, hairy leaves, and flowers in umbels. Per. June 
F I L A G O. Cudweed. 
TIte common cup confifts of imbricated awns, con- 
taining many hermaphrodite flofgules in the diik, and 
lingle feminine fiofcules in the radius, among the lower 
fcales 
