Tuz VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 56 
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Whole particular Cup is til’d, or has feveral ranges of Segments. 
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Charadter of the Genus, : ¥ ° 
The Head is globular ; the general Cup is compofed of one range of filmy 
Segments, and is fhorter than the Flowers ; the feparate Flowers are 
cut into Segments, wien turn back at the Rotate. 
Plate 40. 0. abe. 
. MANY HEADED’'GLOBE THISTLE. 
Plate 40. Fig. 1. | | | 
Character of the Species. | : Echinops dtiheciadialas 
tT he Stalk is branched and fupports feveral Heads of Flowers. 
| "Fe tah 
THIS is a Perennial, native of Spain and Italy, an upright handfome Platit, of a yard 
or more in height, flowering in July and Auguft. The Stalk is firm, thick, and brown; 
the Leaves are of a dark and dufky green on the upper fide: but whitifh and hoary un- 
derneath. ‘The Flowers are naturally of a blueifh white, fometimes they are white en- 
_tirely ; and fometimes they are crimfon: this is the moft beautiful, but the leaft ufual 
{tate of the plant. | 
2 ONE HEADED GLOBE THISTLE. 
| Plate 40. Fig. 2. 
Character of the Species. | | | Echinops Ritro. 
The Stalk is imple and fosport only one Head of Flowers. 
Fig. 2. @ b. 
‘Tus is a Peieahial; native of Italy, and the South of Frarice, a very Kindtsine Plant, 
flowering in Auguft. It grows to two feet and a half in heighth. The Stalk is rib’d, 
firm, of a greenifh white; and in the wild ftate is deftitute of branches; in gardens it 
hag often more than one; but in this cafe, each Branch fupports only one Flower, fo — 
that the character of the fpecies is yet kept diftinct ; the Leaves are of a pale but pleafant 
green on the upper fide, and white underneath. The Flowers are of a very beautiful 
blue. The feparate Flowers and general Heads, vary confiderably 1 in fize; they are 
twice as big in egueen as We ice them in wild nature. 
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