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Volume 2 · 63 words · 1797 Edition

goldilocks: A genus of the polygamy æqualis order, belonging to the syngenesia clas of plants; and in the natural method raking under the 46th order, Compositæ discoider. The receptacle is chaffy; the pappus is chaffy, and very short; and the calyx is imbricated. There are 20 species, all tender plants except one; and none of them possessed of beauty, or any remarkable property.