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CENTAUREA RuapontTica. Swiss 
CENTAURY. 
Clafs and Order. 
SyNGENESIA PoLYGAMIA FRUSTRANEA, 
_ Generic Charaéier. 
Recept. fetolum. Pappusimplex. Cor. radii infundibuliformes, 
longiores, irregulares. — i 
Specific Charaéfer and Synonyms. 
CENTAUREA Rbapontica; calycibus {cariofis: fquamis ovatis 
laceris, foliis ovato-oblongis denticulatis fubtus tomentofis. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 2305- Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 153+ 
CENTAUREA Rbapontica ; calycibus {cariofis, foliis ovato- 
oblongis denticulatis integris petiolatis: fubtus tomentofis. 
' Sp. Pl. 1294. Hort. Cliff. 421. Villars Daupb. 3. p. 44- 
RHAPONTICUM. Hall. Enum. p. 687. 1. 1. 
CYNARA foliis petiolatis lanceolatis ad _pediculum emargina- 
tis. Hall. Emend. 2. n. 64. 
CENTAURIUM foliis petiolatis lanceolatis ad pediculum 
emarginatis. Hall. Hit. n. 160. 
CENTAURIUM majus folio Helenii incano. Tourn, Inf. 449. 
CENTAURIUM majus. Cord. Hift. lid. 4. ¢. 59- 
RHAPONTICUM folio Helenii incano. Bauh. Pin. 117. 
RHA five Rhei, ut exiftimatur. Icon. Dod. Pempt. 389. 
RHA capitatum Centauri majoris facie, Enulz folio. Tob. 
Obf, 153.—adverf. 118. Ic, 228. - 
RHAPONTICUM alterum anguttifolium, Lod. Ic, 228. Park, 
| Theat. 157> ; oe 
The Centaurea Rbapontica is remarkable for the fize of its 
flowers, which yield only to the artichoke, among plants of 
this order. It had once confiderable celebrity, as being fup- 
pofed to be the parent of the Rhubarb of the fhops, hore it 
does 
