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HH |v !"' [ " t Et FIG. * 5 5. HARD HEADS (Centaurea scabiosa). 



A beautiful composite flower, with all the florets rayed, and of a bright purple colour. The overlapping bracts ol 

 the involucre have toothed brown margins. EUROPE, SIBERIA, W. ASIA. 



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