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PLATE XXVIII. LETTER XXVI, 



SYNGEN. POLYG. SEGREGATA. 

 Echinops fphaerocephalus. Globe Thijile. 



a The entire compound flower, confiding 



of tubular florets, feparated by their 

 - proper perianths ; which determines 



this plant to be of the fegregate order 



in the clafs Syngenefia. 

 A finuated leaf, the jags ending in fpines. 

 A fingle flofcule in its calyx. 

 A flofcule taken out of the calyx, with 



the ftyle feparate. 

 A fingle fubulate leaflet of the calyx, in 



three different views. 



E 4 



