18 Tur VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
Ce U0. AV, 
PINKWEED. 
KNAUTIA. 
Charadter of the Genus. | | | es : | 
The Head is flat, and is compofed only of five Flowers : the general Cup is 
entire, cylindrical ; and cut into a few fharp Segments at the Brim. 
| , 7 Plate 5.0. ab 
t CRIMSON PINKWEED., 
Plate 5. Fig. 1, ee 
Charaéter sf the Species. | | | you Knautia Orientalis. 
The Leaves are linear and wav'd ; the Heads ftand on fimple Footftalks. 
| ) | | Fig. 3. ab, 
Tuts is an Annual, native of the Greek Iflands, and flowers in July. It is a flender 
twiggy Plant, of a yard in heighth; and of a very fingular and not unpleafing afpect. 
The Stalk is of a dark green, and {preads towards the top in a wild, but picturefque man- 
ner. The Leaves are of a freih and fhowy green; the F lowers are of a fine glowing 
crimfon. ‘The feparate Flowers are ranged in fo even and regular manner in the Head 
that the whole appears only as one Flower, not a little refembling, at a diftance, a com- 
mon fingle Pink ; whence its Englifh name, 
2 AZURE PINKWEED. 
Plate 5. Fig. 2. 
‘Character of the Species. | Knautia Occidentalis, 
The Leaves are lanced and indented; the Heads ftand on divided Foot- 
| | ftalks. | 
‘Fig. 2.@ 3, 
Tuts is a Biennial, native of Canada and other parts of North America ; a very hand- 
| fome Plant, flowering in Auguft. The Stalk grows to two foot and a half high ; it is 
flender, tough, of a {trong green, and very much branched. ‘The Leaves are of a dark 
and coarfe green: the Flowers are of a perfectly fine blue. The Plant is little known ~ 
in Europe, and does not fucceed well with us in gardens. Ifthe Seeds be fown in Spring, 
they feldom come up ; if in Autumn, the young Plants die in the Winter. I had it 
here at Bayfwater, in 1762, on one of my Sand Hills, from Seeds from Canada, fown — 
in Autumn, and care in fheltering the Seedlings in hard weather. Pluckenet ¢ feems 
to have named this, and, as I think, no other Author, | 
° Alms 335. | 
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