43 Tue VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
9 oF ENE LEAVD $CABIO US 
Plate 29. Fig. 1. 
Character of the Species. Scabiofa Columbaria, 
The firft Leaves are fimple, oval, anal bluntly dented along the Edges. The 
. others are deeply pinnatifid and ferrated ; and thofe on the upper part of — 
the Stalk, moft fine and fimple in their divifions. — mee ) 
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_ Turs isa Biennial, native of our hilly paftures, a very beautiful, though wild "Slane 
flowering in June, July, and Augutt. _ It grows to near a yard in heighth ; the Stalk is 
delicate, but firm; ofa pale green, and not much branched ; the. Leaves are of a pale 
green alfo; and from the finenefs and regularity of their divifions, have a beautiful 
afpect. The Flowers are of a fine crimfon, with a dath of pearly blue. They vary ex-_ 
ceedingly in fize, form and colour, according to the places where the Plant grows, It: . 
loves a light foil ; but light foils are ufually dry ; and in thefe the heads are {mall and 
globular, and the Flowers open very imperfectly : the Plant requires to its perfea good 
condition, fome moifture in the light and loofe ground, wherein it delights to grow. In 
this the Flowers obtain their full fize, and fpread into a breadth that is furprifing ; here 
alfo they have their fine crimfon colour. I found the Plant in this fine ftate near Hornfey 
Wood ; and giving it the fame foil, it blows in the fame perfection here at Bayf. — 
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Plate 292° Fig... 2. 
Musk Scasious, 
Scabiofa Atropurpurea. 
| Character of the Species, | 4 | 
The lower Leaves are pinnatifid with a broad harp’d end ; the others are 
_ fimply pinnatifid, with long flender Segments. 
Tus is an Annual, native of the Eaft-Indies, a Plant of two feet and a bit isk, 
covered with Flowers in July, whofe fine deep colour, and perfumed {cent, have long 
made it a favourite in our gardens. Though an Annual with us, it is a Perennial, woody 
Plant in its native foil, as are many others; and it will ‘live through mild winters, and ~ 
become woody alfo fometimes with us. The Stalks are brown toward the bafe, but of 
a good green upwards. The Leaves are of a bright green. The Flowers’ are purple, 
dotted as it were with their own white ftyles. i 
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