THe VE'GETAS LB’SY ST EM oa 
7 HOLLOW’D SCABIOUS. 
Plate 28... Fig, 1 
CharaGter of the Species. Scabiofa Tartarica. 
The Leaves are lanc’d and deeply tiv d; the lower ones are lightly pin- 
natifid ; and their Segments turn in, kad make the Leaf hollow. - 
Fig. I.ab, 
Tuts is.a Biennial, native of Tartary, and flowers in Tay a very tall, ftately, and 
handfome Plant. ‘The Stalk is five feet high, thick, and very upright and robuft; the 
Branches are alfo coarfe and ftrong, and all covered with that fort of hairynefs, which 
~ gives the harfhnefs our Scabious has to the touch. The Leaves are rugged, and of coarfe 
green. The Flowers are very large, and of a fine light crimfon when firft blown; but 
they grow paler with ftanding, and get a very faint look as they fade. 
€& SPREADING SCABIOUS, 
Plate 28. Fig. 2. 
Charader of the Species. Scabiofa Integrifolia. 
The Stalk is fmooth, and fpreads at the top with wide Branches ;_ the. 
Leaves are lanc’d, dented at the edge, and hairy. 
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Fig. 2. te 
THis is an nial, native of the South of France; and flowers in June: The Stalk is 
firm, of a dufky green, and two feet high. ‘It rifes fingle, and fends out few Branches — i 
till near the top, where it divides and {preads into a wide head; unlike in this refpect 
to any other of the Scabioufes ; the Flowers are {mall, and the Heads globular. Their 
colour is a fingular crimfon, having fome faint dath of a tint approaching to blue, that 
plays in an uncertain manner upon the Buds ; but is not feen in the open F lowers. 
THE divilans of the Flower, in this and the sialon acs, | are lefs irregular than 
in many of the others. The Scabious Genus is fo large, that I have withed to form a 
diftinGion upon this foundation; but near examination fhews the difference -is only in 
the degree of irregularity, for all are more or lefs irregular; and therefore I have found 
‘it impracticable, 
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