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XVIII. Remarks on Centaurea folftitialis and C. melitenfis. By Fame 
Edward Smith, M. D. FOR. SP; LS. 
RSS Read October 2, 1792. 
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s plant intended by Mr. Hudfon in his Flora Anglica; edis 
tion 2, p. 377, by the name of Centanrea Joffitralis, has nes 
ver been well aícertained.  ]t is faid in Ray’s Synopfis to have 
been found, by Mr. Bobart, about hedges in the neighbourhood of 
. Cirencefter in Gloucefterfhire; and Mr. Hud/on adds Northfleet in 
Kent as another place of its growth, probably from his own 
knowledge, as he quotes no auth ority. 
- What is commonly preferved in our Englifh gardens and her- 
bariums under the name of Centaurea Joffitials, and taken for the 
plant of Ray and Hudfon, I difcovered, on receiving the Linnean 
herbarium, to be the C. melitenfis of our great mafter, I always, 
from that time, fought every 
_ the two fpecies ought really to be confidered as belonging to our 
Englifh Flora, but long without fuccefs, having never been able 
to fce any undoubtedly wild fpecimens. 
When in Languedoc, in the winter of 1786, I there gathered 
_ the Linnean C. folfiitialis, and brought its feeds to the garden of 
I my 
opportunity of determining which of - 
