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23. MULTIFID SCABIOUS. 
Plate s8- Fig: i. 
_ Charaéter of the Species. oe iis 2 | | ~ Scabiofa Triandra: 
The Leaves from the Root are fimple, oval, and {ferrated; thofe on the 
Stalk are divided i into a multitude of very flender Segments. ci 
~ Platé 38. Fig. ayy fae oe 
Tx 1s is a Biennial, native of the South of France, a very fingular, and very handfome 
Plant ; flowering from June to Auguft. 
’ Tue firft Leaves are of a deep and very. beautiful green 3 the Stalk is alfo of a ftrong 
green; and its Leaves only.a little paler. . The heighth of the Plant is about a foot, 
and it has not many Branches; thofe it ‘has are tender, and apt to have the laffum col- 
_ lum of the poet bending under the weight of the Flowers ; ‘thefe are very large, and of | 
an exceeding fine glowing crimfon, with fome tinét of blue among it, which in. certain 
lights gives it a caft of purple. 
TuERE is fomething fo fingular in the feparate Flowers: of this Plant, that it ‘Would 
not feem ftrange to give a new generic charaéter, and place it alone under another name ; 
but many things may be perfectly wrong, which would not feem ftrange. The great 
apparent fingularity in this Plant, is that the Flower is divided only into three Segments, 
all the others having four or five ; and there is another article, which though lefs obvious, 
will appear to many yet more important; which is, there are only three Chives, where- 
as the other Scabious’s have fours But in anfwer to all this, the firft glance of the eye 
~ would teach the common obferver to call it Scabious ; and frequent infpection of the 
Flowers will fhew that, though ufually they are not always trifid. 
Tue three Stamina, if regarded, would remove this Plant out of the fourth into the 
- third Clafs in the fexual fyftem; but the author of that method has not offered fo much 
violence to nature, as to remove this from the other Scabious’s, though different from 
them according to his characters even in Clafs. He has retained a .diftinction between 
the Flowers with five, and thofe with four Segments, among the Scabious’s ; but I have ” 
not found it permanent enough for fuch divifion. They are Sgreen with each Species. 
as they ae appear 5 but they vary in their divifion often. — 
4. TSR PENSE 8CABLOU SI: & 
Plate 38. Fig. 2 
Character of the Secs. | , Scabiofa Ietenfi Se 
The Flowers fpread open like a ftar ; the Leaves are twice winged, and. 
their Leah are linear. 
Fig. 2.45. 
- ‘Turs is a Perennial, native of Siberia ; a very pretty Plant, of ten inches high, 
flowering in Auguft. The Stalk is pale. The Leaves are of a yellowith green. -The 
Flowers are white. ; 
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