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SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA TEQUALIS. 463
In marfhy places, and by the fides of lakes. Dr.
Parfons. o. VIII.
The whole plant is fmooth, a cubit high, and
branched : the leaves are lanceolate, fcrratcd,
oppofite to each other, feffile, and coalefcent at:
the bale : the flowers grow fingly at the tops of
the branches, and after fhedding their feminal
powder, hang down their heads : the lower fcales
of the calyx are foliaceous ; the flowers are yel-
low, and fometimes radiated, but not often ; the
feed is quadrangular, and has four beards, two of
which are longer than the others.
minima^. A fmall variety o^.tjiis fometimes occurs, from
three to fix incheSj^vhich fome authors have made
a diftincl fpecies, becaufe the heads of flowers
arc erecb. But this is not always the cafe, for wc
have often feen them nod, and are therefore
fully perfuaded that it is either an autumnal
feedling, produced from an early plant of the
preceding, with which it grows promifcuoufly,
or elfe is rendered dwarfifli by fome accidents of
growth. (See the figures of it in Ray's Synops
p. 188. /. y.f. i.^Oed. Fl, Dan. t. 312.)
This has nearly the fame virtues with the preced-
ing, but rather in an inferior degree. It alio
dyes yellow.
EUPATORIUM. Get?, pi, 955.
Recept. nudum. Fappus plumofus. Cal. imbricatus
oblongus. Stylus femibifidus, longus.
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