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434 Th BRITISH HERBAL. Wh 
It is common in hilly paftures, and flowers in The leaves are oblong and narrow, of a greyith 
July. green, and cottony. Thofe toward the lowe, 
C. Bauhine calls it Facea major fquammatis ca- 
pitulis. 
3. Grey Matweed. 
Facea foliis cinereis. 
The root is compofed of many flender fibres: 
The ftalk is upright, brown, but covered with 
a cottony matter, not much branched, and rarely 
above ten inches high. 
part are deeply divided, the others fcarce at all. 
The flowers are large, and of a pale fiefh- 
colour. 
It is found in our northern GONE and flowers 
in July. 
Ray calls it acea minor tomentofa laciniata 
but the upper leaves ufually are undivided: 
epee soe eae ea a ea ae el coo ee BDA De oe oO aT Dea SDP 
Se Bh Rest 
E S II. 
ForEIGN GENERA, 
Thofe of which there is no fpecies native of this: country. 
Gab aN 
GeR B-AST 
na EET Rae SIL, 
CGE Net yAy,U Ray, 
CE = Nig inn AAU ge Rania. 
HE flowers are colleéted into oblong heads; which are compofed of numerous, thick, cluftered 
fcales: they are each formed of a fingle petal, which has a very flender, tubular bafe; and is 
deeply divided into five fegments. 
Linnzeus places this with the reft of the capitate plants among the Lingenefi fa, their buttons in the 
flower coalefcing in a cylindric form. ‘The common name of the genus is centaurium majas: but 
that is an irregulat term. It is better therefore to follow the modern practice, and call it centauria, 
Common Great Centaury: 
Centauria vulgaris. 
The root is long, thick, and of a redifh co- 
lour. 
The ftalk is firm, upright, of a brown colour, 
four or five feet high, and divided into many 
branches. 
The leaves are very large, and pinnated ina 
regular and handfome manner: they are ferra- 
ted along the edges of the pinna, and of a yel- 
lowifh green. 
The flowers terminate the branches ; 
large and purple. 
The feeds are oblong and glofty. 
It isa native of Italy, and flowers in June. 
C. Baubine calls it Centaurium majus folio in 
plures lacinias divifo. 
and are 
Th END of te TWENTY-FIFTH CLASS, 
