The VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
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i. SIMPLE LEAV’D B I R D W E E D. 
Plate 43. Fig. 1. 
Charadter of the Species. Sigefbeckia Orientals. 
The Leaves have Footfcalks which rife fimple and naked 
from the Stem. 
Fig. 1. a If. 
This is an annual, native of China, and the Indies; a Plant of 
more Angularity than beauty, flowering in July and Auguft. The 
Stalk is brownifh, firm, and more than a yard in beighth. The Leaves 
are of a bright green ; the Flowers are yellow; the Cup is alfo yellowish, 
and its glandular hairs are brown. 
2. ALATED BIRDWEED. 
Plate 43. Fig. 2. 
Character of the Species. Sigefbeckia Occidentals. 
The Leaves have winged Footftalks, which run down the 
Stem. 
Fig. 2. a b. 
This is a biennial, native of Virginia and Carolina; a Angular and 
not inelegant Plant ; flowering in July. The Stalk is of a reddifh 
brown, but edg’d with green from the Footftalks of the Leaves in a very 
pretty manner. It grows to near two feet in heighth. The Leaves 
are of a dark green ; and the Flowers are yellow. The Heads in this 
fpecies are apt to drop their outer Cups, as fome of the Radiate Flowers 
do their Rays. ’Tis neceffary to name this ; or it might perplex the 
ftudent. 
These are Plants of that kind which naturally perplex the inven- 
tors of artificial fyftems ; for they carry the proper marks of different 
Claffes : but they are of infinite value in the method of nature. They 
are the frontier kinds, between the Radiate and Aggregate Plants, 
joining the two Claffes, but belonging diflindtively to neither. They 
have the marks of both ; and we have repeated them under each. They 
belong to the Radiates by the union of their Chives ; to the Aggre- 
gates, by their general and feparate Cups. 
AGGREGATES. 
