g2 9 Tor VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
Ge EU. Ss II. ——-— Ir PERMANENT. 
N SED ion Ww 8 8 D.. 
A CURA. 
Charadter of the Genus. | 
“The Head is convex; and the general Cup is formed of a fingle range of 
Films, pointed and edged with hard and bony Thorns, Soper the 
ne ends of needles. 
Plate 38. 0.4 b. 
Of this Genus there is known only one Species. 
‘HAR P’D NEEDLE WEED. oop do cries 
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Character of the Greties, | | 2 ae een st 
go he Leaves are ia d with bea obtule fe Segments. 
3 - Fig: 1. wii 
Tuis is an Annual, a firm, upright Plant of regular erowth, flowering i in Auguft ; 
very glowing i in the number, and in the colour of its Flowers ; but too ftiff and exaét in 
the difpofition of them for beauty. ‘The Stalk is hard and almoft woody at the bafe, 
where it is of a reddith brown, elfewhere it is green and firm, but without that woody 
hardnefs. The Leaves are of a good green; and the Flowers are crimfon. | 
Ir grows to two feet and a half in heighth ; and toward the top fends out a multi- 
tude of Branches, all if diftinétly regarded in a proliferous manner. The main Stem 
is terminated at about two feet heighth by one head, which blows earlier, and is al- 
ways larger, and compofed of larger and opener feparate Flowers than the others : four 
Branches ufually rife from the bofom of the two upper Leaves; and each of thefe is 
terminated in like manner by one head; and from the joint below this grow two Stalks. 
again. In this manner, and this only, the Branches at the head of the Plant rife, 
It is proliferation, though not fo diftinétly apparent as in the Scabious thence named, 
and 
