EUPATO'RIUM.* Recept. naked: Down feathery: Calyx oblong, tiled: Style prominent, cloven half-way down. E. CANNAB'INUM. Calyx five-flowered: leaves with finger-like divi

sions.

(E. Bot. 428. E.)-Fl. Dan. 745-Blackw. 110-Fuchs. 265-J. B. ii. 1065. 2-Trag. 491-Lonic. i. 241. 2-Matth. 1015-Dod. 28. 2-Lob. Obs. 285. 1, and Ic. i. 528. 2—Ger. Em. 453. 2—H. Ox. vii. 13. 1-Park. 595.

Stem three or four feet high, branched. Leafits mostly three, sometimes five, spear-shaped sharply serrated at the base, towards the point very entire. Calyx scales few, strap-shaped. Seeds black, scored, smooth, little more than a line long. Down sessile, hair-like, when viewed with a glass finely toothed, not three lines long. Woodw. Stem reddish, rather cylindrical, slightly woolly. Leaves serrated, slightly woolly. Calyx membranous, coloured, a little hairy. Florets five and six. Blossom purplish red, sometimes white; clefts shallow. Styles and summits with a tinge of red. Germen covered with minute shining globules. HEMP AGRIMONY. WATER AGRIMONY. (Welsh: Byddon chwerw. E.) Banks of rivers and brooks. P. July-Aug.t

Var. 2. Leaves simple, egg-spear-shaped.

This is the seedling plant of early flowers the first year; the second year, as I have frequently observed, it has digitate leaves. Woodw.

Near Lee, in the road to Eltham. Dillenius. Near Bungay. Mr. Woodward.

(CHRYSO'COMA.

Flowers discoid: Recept. naked: Down simple Calyx hemispherical, imbricated: Style scarcely longer than the florets. E.)

(C. LINO'SYRIS. Herbaceous leaves linear, smooth: scales of the calyx loosely spreading.

PLATE XXXV.-E. Bot. 2505.

Root creeping, with long, stout fibres. Stem erect, round, rigid, simple, smooth, leafy, a foot high, or not so much. Leaves numerous, scattered, linear, acute at each end, entire, rather fleshy, rough with minute white points. Flowers few, terminal, corymbose, of an uniform yellow; their stalks hardly scaly in our specimens. Florets about thirty, uniform, acute. Seeds hairy. Down minutely rough. Cells of the receptacle with a slight jagged border, not amounting to scaliness. E. Bot. FLAX-LEAVED GOLDYLOCKS. Linarea aurea Traji. Ger. Em. This rare plant, new to the British Flora, was discovered in the autumn of 1812,

(Evzalaprov, of Dioscorides, a surname of Mithridates, king of Pontus, by whom the plant was introduced as an alexipharmic. E.)

+ An infusion of a handful of it vomits, and also proves a strong cathartic. An ounce of the root in decoction is a full dose. In smaller doses the Dutch peasants take it as an alterative, and antiscorbutic (the turf-diggers especially, being peculiarly subject to swellings and ulceration of the legs. E.) Goats eat it. Cows, horses, sheep and swine refuse it. (Dr. Swediaur recommends the root as a diuretic serviceable in dropsy. E.)

(From xpucos, gold; and xou, hair; not inapplicable to the general colour of the flower; but probably applied by Dioscorides to plants of which that circumstance was more obviously characteristic. E.)

by the Rev. Charles Holbech, of Farnborough, Warwickshire, (by whom we have been favoured with specimens,) whilst exploring the rocky promontory of Berry Head, Devon. It grows in great plenty, amongst coarse grasses, about two hundred paces from the westernmost battery, on the Dartmouth side. It has more recently been observed by Dr. Wollaston on the south-western extremity of the Mendip Hills, Somersetshire. P. Aug.-Sept. E.) SANTOLI'NA.* Recept. chaffy: Down none: Calyx tiled, hemispherical.

S. MARITIMA. Flowers forming a corymb: leaves oblong, blunt, scolloped, very downy. E. Bot.

Dicks. H. S.-(Hook. Fl. Lond. 137. E.)-E. Bot. 141-Mill. 135—J. B. iii. a. 157. 2-Pet. 20. 8-Lob. Adv. 201, and Ic. i. 480. 1-Ger. 516Clus. i. 329. 3-Dod. 65-Ger. Em. 640. 3-Matth. 860—H. Ox. vi. 4. 47.

(Root descending to a great depth, branched. Stems recumbent at the base, brittle, cylindrical, leafy; branches upright. Leaves numerous, alternate. Stigma protruding. Fl. Brit. E.) Whole plant white and cottony. Leaves spear-shaped, scolloped, blunt. Chaff as long as the calyx. Seeds two-edged, downless, whence it should seem to be rather a species of Santolina. Linn. Blossom bright yellow. (Florets remarkably prolonged down the sides of the germen, forming two ear-like appendages, whence the novel generic distinction, Diotis, of Desfontaines. E.) SEA COTTON-WEED. (Irish: Liah Luss beag. Welsh: Llwyd boneddig; Môredafeddog. S. maritima. Huds. With. Willd. Fl. Brit. E.) Athanasia maritima. Linn. (Diotis maritima. Hook. Sm. E.) On the sea shore. Near Abermeney Ferry in Anglesey; and between Penzance and St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. Ray. Isle of Shepey; and near Poole, Dorsetshire. Hudson. On the Devonshire coast. (On the beach just above high-water mark, one mile north of Landguard fort, Suffolk. Sir J. E. Smith. On the Burton and Bridport sands. Rev. Palk Welland. E.) P. Aug.-Sept.

SUPERFLUA.

TANACETUM. Recept. naked: Down none: Calyx hemispherical, tiled: Florets, of the circumference trifid, narrow-strap-shaped, sometimes wanting.

T. VULGARE. Leaves doubly winged, cut, serrated.

Woodv. 115-Kniph. 2-(E. Bot. 1229. E.)-Ludw. 22-Fl. Dan. 871Dod. 36. 1-Lob. Obs. 432. 1, and Ic. 749. 1-Ger. Em. 650. 1-Park, 81. b.-H. Ox. vi. 1, row 1. 1, f. 1-Pet. 20. 9-Blackw. 464-Fuchs. 46J. B. iii. a. 131. 2-Ger. 525. 1-Trag. 158-Matth. 908-Lonic. i. 151.3.

(Supposed to be derived from a district of Gaul, near the Alps, wherein it abounds. E.)

(Flowers golden yellow, numerous, forming a dense corymb: florets of the circumference rarely apparent. E.) Stem frequently reddish, (upright, two feet high, scored, scarcely hairy. Leaves alternate, amplexicaul. Leafits of the calyx blunt, membranous at the edge. Imparts an agreeable aromatic odour. E.)

COMMON TANSY. (Irish: Luss na Frank. Welsh: Gystlys cyffredin. E.) Mountainous meadows and pastures. Banks of rivers and swampy places: (also on dry banks. E.) Banks of the Irwell and other places about Manchester. Mr. Caley. Banks of the Dove. Mr. Pitt. Between Piper's Hill and Bridgewater; and in Devonshire, (as about Teignmouth, Torquay, &c. frequent. (It abounds at Wark, and Ford-castle, near Kelso: also on the side of Gare-loch, on the borders of Scotland. Encyc. Brit. Opposite Alcester mill, on the side of the turnpike road. Purton. Plentiful on Newmarket Heath, Cambridgeshire. By the side of a rill between Penmon church and the sea, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Among the cliffs at Cheddar, Somersetshire. E.) P. June-(Aug. E.)* Var. 2. Leaves curled.

Ger. 525.2-Dod. 36. 2-Lob. Obs. 432. 3, and Ic. i. 749. 2-Ger. Em. 650. 2-Park. 81. a-J. B. iii. 132.

Ray informs us that this variety was first observed in England. It grows by the Tees near Connis Cliffe, Durham. Mr. Robson. (Lane near Wolsington, Northumberland. Mr. Winch. E.)

ARTEMIS'IA.† Recept. slightly hairy or naked: Down none: Calyx tiled: scales converging: Florets radiate, none.

A. CAMPES'TRIS. Leaves many-cleft, strap-shaped: stems wand-like. (E. Bot. 338-Fl. Dan. 1175. E.)-Ger. 948. 5, Abrot. camp.-J. B. iii. a. 194. 2-Pet. 20. 4-Dod. 33. 2-Lob. Obs. 442. 3, and Ic. i. 767.2-Ger. 1106. 5-Park. 94. 7-Matth. 852-Lonic. ii. 23. 2.

Stems numerous, (often reddish, about two feet high, E.) angular, declining, much branched. Leaves, the upper frequently simple, very narrow. Heads very small, scarcely more than a line broad, numerous, single,

Tansy is a warm and deobstruent bitter, and its flavour not ungrateful. (It is frequently admitted into gardens for culinary purposes. E.) The tender leaves and juice are sometimes used to give a colour and flavour to puddings. If a dead animal substance be rubbed with this plant, the flesh fly will not attack it. The Finlanders obtain a green dye from it. Cows and sheep eat it. Horses, goats, and swine refuse it. It affords nourishment to Aphis Tanaceti, and Chrysomela Tanaceti. Linn. (also to Andrena albicans and tibialis. The seeds are an excellent vermifuge. (This herb flourishes luxuriantly on the banks on the Avon, near Hanham and Keynsham, where Mr. Frederick Russell observed boys gathering a boat-load of it to convey to Bristol for the purpose of making wine. Dr. Threlkeld relates the case of a soldier at Montpellier who was cured of an obstinate dropsy by the decoction of Tansy alone. Of the juice of the tender leaves, with eggs, are composed Tansy cakes, used at the Paschal season by Papists, to dissipate the flatulencies occasioned by what the above authority terms, "the idle conceit of eating fish and pulse for forty days in Lent; but," the Doctor adds, "I have seen several victims to superstition, who have broken an hale constitution by that presumptuous fasting, so that neither Tansy nor steel could repair it." E.)

t (From 'Apreus, a name of Diana, who presided over women in child-bed; the plant originally so called being of more decided efficacy in promoting parturition. E.)