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ny ? This plant is too common for 
general admiration. It is eafily dif- 
tinguifhed by the colour of its five 
obcordate petals, and by the 'extreme 
length of the fegments of its mono- 
phyllous calyx. You will find it to 
be of the Clafs and Order Decandria 
Pentagynia, and of the genus Agrof- 
temma, of which four fpecies have 
been difcovered in different parts of 
the world; but this, our Cockle, to 
which Linnaeus has given the trivial, 
or fpecific, name of gitbago, is the 
only one indigenous in this king- 
dom. There is an excellent engrav- 
ing of. it in the Flora Londinenfis. 
There is an umbelliferous plant in 
bloom, the name of which, from the 
defcription of modern Botanifts, it is 
impoffible, in its prefent ftate, to dif- 
cover ; becaufe both the generic and fpe- 
cific defcriptions, given by Linnaeus, 
depend principally on the feeds, which 
are not yet formed: but, by applying 
the root to your nofe, you will imme- 
diately tell me, it is a Carrot. It is 
indeed the Daucus carota, the Wild Car- 
rot, 
