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Ring flowers are arranged many together in a fmall head. ‘The common cup farrounding then 
is of a rounded figure ; and is compofed of oblong {eales, edged in an elegant Pdnieesl The 
flofcules or feparate flowers are large: they have a long and flendér tube; and a wide mouth, fwelled 
out and divided into five fegments ; and the flofcules on the verge of each head are lef divided than 
thofe in the centre. The leaves are not prickly, and the whole flower is elegant. 
Linnzus places this among the /yngene/fia: 
DIVISION I, 
Common Bluebottle: 
Cyanus vulgaris. 
The root is fibrous, and whitifh. 
The ftalk is upright; flender, firm, ribbed, of 
a pale green; and covered more or lefs with a 
whitifh, downy fubftance. 
The leaves are long and narrow: thofe on the 
lower parts are divided deeply in a foméewhat pin- 
DIVISION I: 
Great Bluebottle: 
Cyanus major. 
The root is compofed of innumerable thick 
fibres. ‘ 
The ftalks are round, thick, 4 foot and half 
high, and not much branched: they are of a 
frefh green colour; but they have a white cot- 
torly matter about them. 
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nated mannér. Thé others are entire: they are 
of a pale green, and of a firm fubftance. 
The flowers terminate the tops of the branches: 
and they are large, and of a fine blue, 
It is common in cofn-fields, and flowers in 
Auguft, ° 
C. Bauhine calls it Cyanus fegetum: Others; 
Cyanus minor: 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
The leaves are large, oblong, undivided, and 
of a fine green. 
The flowers are large and beautiful : they are 
naturally purple; but fometimes blue, and fome- 
times white. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in Auguft. 
C.Bauhine calls it Cyanus montaitus latifolins five 
verbafculum cyanoides: 
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Ap flowers are collected into large, rounded heads; and the fcales compofing thefe are edged 
with flender and irregular fibres. The flowers themfelves are {mall : they have a very narrow, 
tubular bafe ; and an open mouth, divided deeply into five fegments ; which are long, narrow; and 
pointed. 
Linnzus. places this with the cyaius among the fiugeiefia. He does hot allow either to be a dif: 
tint genus, but comprifes them together with the great centaury under the name centaurea. 
1. Common Knapweed. 
Facea vulgaris. 
The root is compofed of numerous, tough, 
brown fibres. : 
The ftalk is upright, firm, of a brown colour, 
not much branched, and a foot and half high. 
The leaves are oblong, and of a dufky green ; 
they are varioufly and irregularly nicked and di- 
vided at the edges. 
The flowers terminate the branches; and they 
are of a fine, purplifh red. 
The “feeds are {mall and brown. 
It is common in paftures, and by way-fides, 
and flowers in June. 
C.Bauhine calls it Facea nigra pratenfis latifolia. 
Others, Facea vulgaris, 
N° 43. 
It is an excellent aftringent, and is belt given 
in decoétion. 
2: Great Knapweed; 
Facea major. 
The toot is compofed of innumerable thick 
long, and brown fibres. 
The ftalk is robuft, brown; two feet and a 
half in height, and varioufly and irregularly 
branched. 
The leaves are large; and fome of them are 
entire, others divided to the rib into many feg- 
ments. ; 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches 5 
and they are large, and of a lively purple. 
The feeds are large and brown. 
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