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Charaéer of the Genus. 
The Head is egg-fhaped. The general Cup is i and thicvteg than the 
Flead, and is defended by a circlet of perfeé&t Leaves beneath. 
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Of this Genus we know only one Species. , 
THORNY EGGWEED. 
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Charade of the Species. Gundetia Tournofertii. | 
The Leaves ; are pinnatifid, and their Edges thorny. 
| Fig. 22.4 6, 
Tuis is a Biennial, native of Syria and Armenia; a moft fingtilar and elegant Plant, 
flowering in June. It grows to a foot and a half high. The Stalk is thick, firm, and 
high rib’ d, of a teddifh brown, and not much branched. The Leaves are of a {trong — 
and fine green on the upper fide, and paler underneath ; ; and they are edged with toler- _ 
ably firm Thorns of the colour of the Stalk. The Flowers are crimfon ; and the whole — 
Head, though white at firft, acquires by degrees that colour. 
Tuts Plant, in-the order of nature, joins Dipfacus and Eryngium ; and fhews how 
little regard in the true arrangement of Plants, is to be paid to the diftinGtions of arti- 
ficial Claffes. : 
HERE it is Heceffaty to place the Plants together under arbitrary fchemes ; and though 
we know that the nearer they ftand to the juft order of nature, the better, yet we can- 
not but often divide them. We have faid in the Introduétion to this our artificial me- 
thod, that it is deftined to the mere knowledge of Plants as we fee them ; and that in 
the purfuit of it, we fhall have no mercy on any Clafs, Order", or Genus that would 
{top our courfe. The reader has here an inftarice: while we acknowledge that this Plant 
in the method of nature, has its juft place between Teafell and Eryngium ; we give it 
under an Order different from either, and near Plants it does not belong to; becaufe 
the feparate Cup of its Flower is of a different conftru@tion ; and it is by that the ftudent 
is to know how, and where to find the Plant: we fhall thew him afterwards, according 
to this hint, where‘to place it. : 
= Vol, II. Page 44. 
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