THE VEGETABLE S$. 3-5... EM, 43 
in SLLVERY $C. A B10,U 5. 
. | Plate 30. Fig. 1. 
Charaéter of the Species, 
me . Scabiofa Argentea. 
The lower Leaves are pinnatifid ; 
the upper ones are only dented irre- 
gularly, and that moft near the point, 
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Tuis is a Perennial, native of the Greek iflands, a very beautiful Plant, flowering all 
the fummer. It grows to neara yard in heighth, and branches wildly and irregularly ; 
the Stalk is gloffy, firm, and white. I thould fay Vaillant had hit upon a lucky thought 
in likening it to ivory, but that, with me at leaft, it is ufually ftain’d a little with crim- 
fon. The Leaves are of a delicate filvery white; the Flowers are of a very pale crim- 
fon. Sometimes they are {mall and very red, at other times they {pread out into a great 
breadth, and get a great deal of a blueifh tinge’; this latter ftate is commonly. the effe& 
of a too clofe green-houfe culture. The Plant will ftand very well in the open air, and 
it is there it gets the true middle fize, and ftrong glowing colour of its Flowers, in which — 
cafe it is fo very much fuperior to the fickly, {pread out, blueith afpect of the green- 
houfe ; and the ftarved condition that it fometimes has in a tough foil abroad, that it 
is fcarce like the fame Plant. er | | | 
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2. WOODY SCABIOUS. 
Plate 30. Fig. 2. 
Character of the Species. - Scabiofa Africana. 
- The Stalk is woody; and the Leaves have a few deep and irregular Seg- 
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7 fee snes Fig. 2.46. 
Tuts is a Perennial, native of Africa, a wild and irregular growing Plant, but very 
‘beautiful, flowering in July and Auguft. The Stem is woody, and two feet high; the 
lower part is covered with a brown bark ; the young Shoots are tender, and of a whitith — 
green. ‘The Leaves are of a light green; the Flowers are numerous, large, ‘and of a 
delicate pale crimfon. If this Plant be managed with care, by cutting off the faded 
Flowers, and allowing it water regularly, it will be covered with bloom all fummer. 
‘The Seeds may be fpar’d, for they feldom ripen here ; and the Plant is fo eafily pro-— : 
pagated by Cuttings that we need not fave the Flowers for that uncertain purpofe. 
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