Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

462 SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMlA .^QUALIS.
the florets are yellow and tubular, and are fome-
times, but not always, furrounded with femiflof.
culous rays : the receptacle has chaffy fcales be-
tween the florets : the leeds are flattifh and an-
gular, and have two beards arifing from the an^
gles, which are hooked or barbed downwards,
and generally another fliorter beard, which arifes
from the middle of the back of the feed.
As this plant is found by a chemical analyfis to pof-
iefs much the fame qualities as the celebrated
V£RBESINA Acmella^ a plant belonging to a
_genus very nearly related to this, it is probable
it would have the iame good effcdls in expelling
the Itone and gravel.
A decodion of this plant with alum, dyes yarn with
a yellow color. The yarn mufl: be firft fteep'd in
alum-water, then dry'd and'fl:eep'd in a decoc-
tion of the plant, and afterwards boil'd in the
decoftion.
The feeds have been knov/n fometimes to deftroy
the CYPRINUS ^«r^/f/j, or gold JjJIj, by adher-
ing to their gills and jaws.
ernua 2. EIDENS foliis lanceolatis amplexicaulibus, floribus
cernuls, feminibus ereftis. Sp. pi, 1165. {Loes.
Fl. Pruf p. 54. /. 1 1. Moris, hijl. f. 6. /. 5. /.
22. Pet. herb. t. 20./. 6)
Nodding Water-liemp-agrimony, or Bur-marygold,
AngUs.
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