Go Tur VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
So Bon GS Ll. 
T HOR ESA ’D W O ® T: 
BR Y N bo A, 
Charader of the Genus, 
_ The Head is convex; the general Cup is hemifpheric, aid compofed . of a 
great number of oval pointed Scales in many ranges. ‘The {eparate 
Flowers are formed of five Petals, narrow at the Bafe, and fpreading at 
the Rim. : | 
Plate 45.0. ab ¢, 
1 JGINTED THREAD WORF 
: Plate 45: ae: Te 
Charaéter of the Species, — | Brunia Nodiflora. 
-The Leaves grow in fours, furrounding the Stalk, and forming the ap- | 
pearance of a kind of Joints. | 
Fig. 1.44. 
Tuts is a Perennial, native of the Cape of Good Hope; a very ‘beautiful, though low 
Plant, flowering in June and July. It grows to more than two feet in heighth; but 
© the Stem is weak, though woody at the bafe, and ufually leans for-fome part of its 
length upon the ground. It is brown or reddifh in that part, but elfewhere pale and 
-greenifh. The Leaves are of a very ftrong and fine green; the Flowers are of a fine, 
though pale crimfon, abundantly making up in the elegance of colour what. is wanting 
in its ftrength. 
2 DOWNY THREADWORT. 
Plate 45. Fig. 2. 
Character of the Species. | i Rae Brunia € saupinols 
The Leaves are linear ; and {pread away from the Stem. 
. : : es peasdik Fig. 2.a b, 
- 'Turs is alfo a Perennial, native of the Cape of Good Hope; a. weak, but woody 
Plant, of two feet high; flowering in Auguft. The Stem is tinged with crimfon ; the 
young Shoots are white and downy. The Leaves are of ‘a whitith: green; and covered’ 
~ lightly with the fame white Down. The Flowers are of a {trong atid glowing crimfon. 
They are fo numerous, that they give a wonderful grace and beauty to the Plant ‘above 
its fellows. It naturally fpreads out into a number of Branches toward the top, all 
covered with bloom; and thefe joining give the os meee of a vaft crimfon Um- 
bell. 
L. EY EGAS H’D 
