go - Tux VEGETABDLE SYSTEM. 
@ LANG@’D LEAV’D $CABIOUS. 
Plate ge.) Fiovt, 
| Devitsgit ScaBious, 
Character of the Species. = | | | Scabiofa Succifa. 
The Leaves are broad, fimple, lanc’d, and ferrated at the edges. 
ron ; Fig, 1.@6. 
Turis is a Perennial, native of our dry Paftures ; and flowers in July. It srows to two 
feet or more in heighth ; but the Stalk naturally leans, in part, toward the ground. 
: The branches are few and afcendant; the Leaves are of a very deep and ftrong ereen 3 
_as isalfo the Stalk, except that on the funny fide ’tis often purplith. The Flowers are 
of a very deep and beautiful blue. — | : 
_ Tuts Plant is faid to have the virtues of the preceding in medicine; and fanciful 
writers have given it their name of Devilfbit, becaufe as they or the grandmothers fancied 
the Devil bit off its Roots, envying their virtues to mankind. The Plant has an abrupt 
= Root, as have fome of the Hawkweeds; one of which has alfo had the fame Englith and 
Latin name for the fame reafon 3; and many other Plants. With re{fpect to its virtues, 
4 think it is inferior to the former; but fome of the northern natidns have found that: 
it is excellent in dying ; ‘and it were well if we, who with all our boafted improvements 
in the arts are very deficient in that, would cultivate the thought. Perhaps this innocent 
Weed would yield a green more elegant and lafting, than that we fought to make with 
Arfenic after the Saxons. | 
SR 0.0 PINGS CABIOU s.” 
Plate 25. Fig. 2. 
_ Charaéter of the Species. g Scabiofa Alpina. | 
_ The Flowers droop : the Leaves are deeply pinnatifid ; and the Segments 
, ferrated. : : 
: : Fig, 2.@ 6. 
Tuts isa Perennial, native of the Swifs mountains, and of many parts of Italy: a 
Plant of two feet and a half high ; flowering in June. The Leaves are of a very ftrong, 
but fomewhat blueifh green. The Stalk is of a deep green ; foft and tender. The 
_ Flowers are of a very deep blue. The Stalk, juft under the Flowers, fwells a little and 
turns, hanging the Flower a little drooping. | 
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