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Onorporpum ArRaABicumM. ARABIAN CoTTON 
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KEK KEE K EEE EK RREREER 
Class and Order. 
SyncenesiA A QUALIS. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composir2. ) 
Generic Character. 
Receptaculum favosum. Pappus capillaris. Calyx im- 
bricatus, squamis mucronatis, , 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Onoporpum Arabicum ; caule elato, foliis subtomentosis late 
decurrentibus sinuato-dentatis spinosis, involucri squa- 
mis ovato-lanceolatis mucronato-spinosis appressis. 
Onoporpum Arabicum. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1159. Jacq. Hort. 
Vindob. t. 149. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. p. 1689. Spreng. 
Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 387. 
Notwithstanding that this very stately plant has been 
cultivated in England (by Mr. Joun Ray) even before the 
year 1686, no figure, that [am aware, has been given of it 
by oat British author: and among foreign ones, there is 
scarcely any except a very indifferent representation in the 
Hortus Vindobonensis of Jacquin. In Botanic Gardens, and 
in those of the curious, it is now and then met with. Pro- 
bably its harsh texture and spinous foliage and involucres 
have tended to expel it from the pleasure-ground ; but these 
very circumstances have recommended it to the northern 
inhabitants of our island : and, forgetting that their national 
emblem should be an aboriginal native.of the country, they 
point it out to the stranger in their cottage gardens as the 
« Nemo me impune lacessit.”” It is a native of Arabia, we 
presuine, as its name implies, as well as of the warmer ps 
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