76 The VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
parts of Europe j flowering in May and June. The Stalk is weak, 
round, a of pale green, and toward the top, branches out wildly. The 
Leaves are of a faint, and fomewhat whitifh green. The Flowers are 
white, with a flight tinge of green or yellowifh fometimes, and indeed 
always in Greece, white entirely. 
This is one of thofe Plants which has perplexed moft of the wri- 
ters in Botany where to place it. The name of Cummin-weed or wild 
Cummin, given it by our old Englifh writers, like that of Cuminoides, 
by thofe of a fomewhat higher Clafs in other languages, (hew how 
very ill they judged of it : the more accurate have been extreamly per- 
plexed about its leparate Cup, which is the great article for finding its 
true place under a proper claflical diftribution. They have fuppofed 
it to be two diftindt bodies, but it is in nature only one : the parts of 
which it is compofed, rife all from one common bafe j and it differs 
from the Cup of the Globe Thiftle, only in the Films {landing more 
remote. None will doubt the feparate Cup in that Plant being imbri- 
cated i nor ought they therefore to doubt the fame of this. 
AGGREGATES. 
ORDER VI. 
Whofe particular Cup is formed only of one oval hollow 
Leaf. 
GENUS I. 
B I R D W E E D. 
SIGESBECKIA. 
Character of the Genus. 
The Head is flat, loofe, and compofed of few Flowers. 
The general Cup is longer than the Flowers, and con- 
lifts of five oblong Leaves in a Angle Range. The 
feparate Flowers are tubular, and cut into five parts ; 
and there are outer Ranges flat, and cut into three. 
Plate 43. a b . 
1. SIMPLE 
