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Character of the Genus, | | 3 
The Head is round, and the general Cup is fhorter than the Flowers, 
; Plate 3. 0. ab, 
Of this Genus we know but one Species. | 
§O0 GN SHE PH ER Ds ROD: 
Meee 
: SHEPHERD’s ROD. 
Plate 2. . 
Character of the Species, Dipfacus Pilofus, 
The Leaves have two Appendages or fimall Leaves at their Bafe. 
: : : | ; | Plate 3. ab, 
_ Tuts is a Biennial, native of our wafte grounds, but not very common ; a fingular and ° 
_ pretty Plant, flowering in July and Auguft. The Stalk is a yard high, rough to the touch, 
of a yellowith green, and fpreads into wide branches. The Leaves are alfo of a yellowith 
green. The Scales of its buttony Heads are green. The Flowers are white. They cover 
the Head at once, making a complete white Ball, which appears fring’d all over with black; 
the Summits, which hang out beyond the Body of the Flower, being of that colour. 
Ir is frequent about Denham ; we have it alfo in the neighbourhood of Woolwich ; 
but I think not nearer London. | ee 
‘Ler it not feem ftrange that I have disjoined this Plant from the preceding. Though 
the generality of late, as well as earlier authors, have called it a Teafell 3 Nature difclaims 
the alliance, and fome have feen it. Vaillant 4 has called it a Deviltbit, and referred it to 
‘the Scabious kinds ; but ftill the Plant is neither Teafell nor Scabious, but a diftine 
Genus ; andit is lucky that it has a diftiné and known name, as it fo much deferyes it. 
> Linnzus, excellent and accurate almoft every where, acknowledges that Vaillant did not 
much amifs in referring this Plant to the Scabious : but he would have not this alone, but 
all the Teafells be referred alfo thither. I with I could, with juttice, {peak of his thought | 
in this, as favourably as he of Vaillant’s. To unite Genera in artificial methods, tends 
always to confufion; and here it cannot be done without violation of Nature - the fepa- 
rate Cups of the Flower in thefe Plants, is the great Character ; and this in Teafell is 
fimple and entire ; in Scabious, double and divided ; they differ more than as Genera, 
they are of different Orders. Haller, obfervant always of Nature, calls in the Habit< 
againft Vaillant, and the Scales between the Flowers ; but there is. a Scabious « which this 
more refembles than it does the Teafell, and many Aggregates have Chafts between the 
Flowers. Both will, I hope, allow me the new Genus. _ : 
_ * Memoir. 238. > Hort. Cliffort, * Facies, p, 676. Enum. St. Hely, - 
* Scabiofa Syriaca, Plate 27. of this Volume. Page 32, : rr 
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