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2. DECUMBENT STARRY SCABIOUS. 
Plate 36. Fig. 7. 
Character of the Species. | 3 Scabiofa Pterocephala. 
The Stalk leans upon the ground; and is woody at the bafe. ‘The 
- Heads have extremely: fhort and naked Footftalks, 
| ah | Fig. 1. @ b. 
"Tits is a Perennial, native of the Levant Iflands, a low and vefy fingular Plant, 
flowering from July to September. The Stalk is hard, rugged and woody near the bafe, 
but elfewhere tender and green ; it grows only to fix or eight inches in length ; and for — 
the moft of that, it lies upon the ground. The Leaves are naturally of a frefh and 
fine green ; but they are rendered grey by a multitude of long white hairs. The Flowers 
are of a bright, though not very ftrong crimfon, and are large, though the Plant is low: 
the Heads of Seeds are very beautiful; they are dry, fhining, brown and downy. The — 
hairs which give that afpect are pale, and keep their place and form very regularly, 
_though they have nothing of that firmnefs we find often among the hairs of the Scabious 
kinds. , : | 
oa. FEATHERY SCABIOWUS. 
| Plate 36. Fig. 2. pees 
Character of the Species. ' . ! a _ ‘Seabiofa Pappofa. 
The Cups of the feparate Flowers are downy. 183! 
Fig. 2. ab. 
Tus is a Biennial, native of Crete, and other of the Greek Iflands ; a handfome 
Plant of two feet high, flowering in Auguft. The Stalk is tender to the bottom, up- 
right, green, branched, and often very fpreading. The Leaves are of a pale and greyifh 
green : the Flowers are of a pale crimfon. ‘There is a white woollinefs about the head 
of Flowers which gives the Plant an afpect different from all the others ; it is Owing to 
a peculiar light, and white hairy, or rather cottony matter that encircles the bafe of the 
-feparate Flowers, and arifes from the Cup. 
Tus has not the merit of fo long continuance in flower as fome of the other {pecies of 
Scabious; but while in bloom, it is as beautiful as almoft any of them. 
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