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3 EYELASH’D THREAD WOR T. 
Plate’ 46." Fig." 
Charaéter of the Species, 
Brunia Ciliata, 
The Leaves are lanc’d, and have a fanee of aiff and firm Hairs, like 
thofe of the Eyelathes, MTOURAInE them — the edge. 
' Fig. 1. ad, 
Tars is a Perennial, iat Plant, native of the fides of hills about the Cape of Good — 
Hope, which it in a manner covers in fome places for many acres together, as héath does 
our Commons, and fpreads over them for many months a continual glow of flefhy.crimfon. 
The Stem is brown and tough, and ufually lies upon the flanting ground for the greateft 
part of its length. The young Shoots are tender, and of a pale green; and thefe rife 
a foot and a half or more from the ground. The Leaves are of a bright, but pale green ; 
and the Flowers. are of the fainteft crimfon that can be conceived; but this. is a very 
pretty colour: it is neareft what our gardeners call the Maiden’s Bluth in certain Rofes 
and other Flowers, of any thing in Europe; but it is truly altogether fingular; and 
the Flowers have a colour as well as form perfectly unknown to us here. 
July and ane 
It flowers in | 
4 8 CALY THREAD WORT, 
Plate 46. Fis, -2. 
‘Charaéter of the Species. Brunia Abrotanoides. 
The Leaves are lanc’d ; oe = cover the Stalk ae {cales of fithes. 
7 Fig. 2.4 b. 
Tuts is alfo a Perennial, woody Plant, native of the Cape ; arid of very fingular — 
beauty. The Stem is brown; the Branches are crimfon ; but they are in moft places 
fo covered with Leaves, that it is fcarcely feen; thefe are of a dead whitifh green. The 
Heads are larger than in any other of this Genus ; and the Flowers are blue; their co- 
lour, like that of the former, is fcarce to be defcribed; and is fo unlike all that we 
ufually fee under that name in the Flowers of Plants, that the firft fight of it aftonithes 
and confounds one. It is a very pale blue, and feems throughout fuftufed with white ; 
but there is a delicacy in its palenefs, quite different from all we are acquainted with, 
except among the Gemms; for there are certain pale fapphires like it; but thefe muft be 
yet paler and brighter to anfwer the refemblance, than thofe mentioned on a former 
like occafion. It flowers in its native foil the greateft part of the year; with us in 
Augutt. , 
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