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Character of the Genus, 
The Heads are cylindrick ; and many ftand cluftered together. The gene-— 
ral Cup is -compofed of two ranges of leafy Segments, The feparate | 
Flowers are cut into five flender Segments. 
Plate 41.0. ab. 
iW PINNATIFID CLUSTER THIS TL. 
Plate 41. Fig. 1. 
-Charaéter of the Species. | av Echinops Strigofus. 
The Leaves are pinnatifid, with wav'd Segments. - 
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THIs is an ‘Naiiaat, native of $hdin, and of the South of France, a very hs hae 
flowering in July and Auguft. The Stalk is white, firm, upright, and but little 
branched ; and grows to two feet high. The Leaves are of a pale whitifh green on the 
upper fide, with fome ftiff hairs upon them. ‘They are altogether white underneath, 
and weakly thorny at the point. The Flowers are of a very pale, but very elegant blue ; 
not unlike the colour we fee in what are called Water Sapphires by the a, in 
which there feems a milky whitenefs fuffus'd among a good blue. ro 3 
| HERMAN underftood this Plant to bea ‘Scdbiotis 7 ; we fee the utility of obferving the 
feparate Cups, and the propriety of forming a diftintion upon their — oper? 
to Soong a below a Clafs. | | 
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Sa POUrRLY PINNATIFID CLUSTER THISTLE E. 
Plate 41. Fig. 2. 
: Charagter of the Species. Echinops Corymbofus. 
The Leaves are doubly pinnatifid ; with irregularly cut Segments. 
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This is a Perennial, native of the Greek iflands, and of many parts of wre a, 
Italy and the South of France ; a:robuft and handfome, though rough-looking Plant, 
flowering in Auguft. The Leaves are broad, and of a deep green; but their Ribs ufually 
are whitifh. The Stalk is green, irregularly branched, and two feet high. The 
Flowers are’ numerous, and of a deep and perfectly fine blue. They crown the 
{preading Head of the Plant profufely, and laft a long time in their beauty. 
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