^ grows to the heighth of three 
feetj its ftem is branched, and each brandy 
terminated by a blue flower. ISfo. 2. is the 
plant in your hand. No. 3. tenyefolium, is 
diflinguifhed by its ligneous, numerous 
flems, and a fmaller flower. No. 4. cathar- 
ticum, is a fmaller plant, with four or five 
bent ftems, with leaves diftant and oppofite., 
Its flowers are white and minute. No. 5. 
radiola has foutjlamina and the fame num- 
ber of pijtilla, and therefore belongs to an- 
other Clafs. 
The ancients were univerfally of opinion 
that a crop of Flax impoverifh.es the ground. 
I am fure you recoiled thjs line in the firft 
book of the Georgics. 
Urif enim Lint campumfigsi^ urit avence* 
Hedy- You obferve there a flower of a 
farum. f u jj fl e ( n-co j our> growing on a long 
{talk. You perceive it is formed by 
a number of florets imbricated fo as, 
in fome degree, to refemble the heacj 
of a cock. Our botanical predecef- 
fors have therefore called it Cock's- 
head. It is the Hedyfarum onobrycbiz. 
From the external appearance of the 
blofTom, 
