20 Tur VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
6. NAKED GLOBEWORT. 
Plate 17. Fig. fy 
Character of the Species. | | Globularia Nudicaulis. 
The Leaves are lanced ; the Flower Stalk is naked, 
: Fig. tr. ab. 
Se is a Perennial, native of the hills in Italy and Germany, but no where fo abun- 
dant, or fo beautiful as at the foot of the Pyrenees, where it often covers whole acres ; as 
common and as hardy as our Daify, which, but for the fulnefs and fky tint of its 
Flowers, it very much refembles. The Leaves are of a deep and ftrong green ; and rife 
in Clufters like thofe of our Daify. The Stalks are numerous, fix inches high, flender 
and delicate ; but of fufficient ftrength to bear the weight of the Flower, and of a ftrong 
green. The Flower is large, and of the perfect colour of the clear firmament. It 
flowers in June. The firft kind has been called Blue Daify, and Mountain Daify; but 
this much better deferves the name, becaufe the Stalk is like that of our Daify, naturally 
and ufually naked; but this is not a ety for in luxuriant foils, there will grow 
now and then a Leaf upon it. 
Tuis may fhew the neceflity of taking in more parts than one, into the fpecific cha- 
rater of a Plant; I remember to have obferved the fame thing in refpeét to fome of the 
Hawkweeds ; : and that when I was new in thefe ftudies, it perplexed me ftrangely. 
7 MANY FLOWERED GLOBEWORT. 
Plate -17i: = SS 
Charadter of the Species. | 3 Globularia Orientalis, 
The Leaves are oval revers ‘d; feveral Heads are placed along the Stall, } 
growing clofe a without Footftalks. 
Fie. 2.46, 
Pars | is a Perennial, native of Natolia, a very beautiful Plant, indeed the moft @le- 
- “gant of this whole handfome family : it flowers in June. The Leaves are of a very fine 
grafs green, and have a glofly furface. The Stalk is near a foot in. heighth, fometimes 
: tolerably thick fet with Leaves, but in bad ground almoft naked. ‘The Flowers are per= 
fectly Kone and are of a heavenly blue. 
ee GENUS 
