36 yee VEGETABLE SYS.TEM. 
G EON Us VII. 
SHEEPS RAMPION. 
JASION E, 
Character of the Genus. 
The Head is globular ; i. general cis is formed of two ranges of 
Scales; the one erect, the other dependent, and properly a fringe. 
Of this Genus we know but one Species. 
HAIRY SHEEPS RAMPION. 
- Plate ie Fig. 1. ae ; 
, SHEEPS RAMPION, | 
Character of the Eaecis. 3 | Jafione Montana. 
~The ee are : near, and flightly ferrated. +s. | 
| Plate 23. a. 
| Tus j is an annual, native of dry hilly Recs: and common to England, and oat 
= other parts of Europe; a very handfome Plant. It grows to a foot or a little more in 
| heighth ; the Stalk is flender and weak ; pale, and’a little hairy. The Leaves are of a 
_ pale and brownith, or greyith green. The Flowers are of a celeftial blue, large and very 
beautiful. It flowers in June. It is common about the farther edge of Hampftead 
_ Heath, near the Spaniard’s ; and in many other Places in dufty clofes, and by the fides 
of roads: but it is in gardens only that it appears in its full and proper luftre; the 
~ clufter of Flowers detains the duft, and we fee little of their clegance, unlefs where they 
are kept in cleanly places. 
Tuts Plant is altogether fingular. It not only conftitutes a Genus of itfelf, of which 
there is no other Species ; but is properly of no Clafs, natural or artificial. It is one of 
_ thofe which writers ufually call Anomalous ; but in the higher views of Botany; it is 
Mes one of the Intermediate or Connecting Plants. It has partly the charaéter of the Tubu- 
_ late or naked flowered Clafs, for its Chives cohere ; apd partly of this of Aggregates, for 
each Flower is perfect, and has its proper Cup. Therefore in the order of nature, it 
. leads from one of thefe Claffes to the other ; fills up an imagined gap between Clafs and 
Clafs in artificial methods, and joins the two, by deftroying the diftin@tion. The Union 
of its Chives, obliged us to give a figure of it before at the end of the fecond Clafs*, to- 
gether with fome other fingular and conneéting Plants, for it claimed thereby that cha- 
raéter ; here we repeat it more at large, as in its more proper place, according to our 
plan °, for the union of its Chives is s flight and imperfect, but its feparate Cup is perfect 
and entire. ; 
® Vol. Ill, Page 145. 1 * Vol. Il. Page 43. 
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