64. Tux VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
» FOLDED ‘ERYN GO. 
Aes 49. Fig. 1. 
| Sea Hotty, 
; Chara@ter of the Special | Eryngium Maritimum. 
The Leaves are oa: and thorny at the ee, the lower ones are 
-roundifh, and cleanly plaited 1 in = folds 
Fig 1.4 8. 
_ Tuts is a Perennial, native of our fea-coafts in moft parts of the ifland ; and like the 
preceding kind, common alfo to almoft every part of Europe. It is a robuft Plant, of 
a foot and a half high ; ; and flowers in June. The Stalk is round, thick, firm, and 
hard. It is reddith toward the bafe, but of a blueifh green upwards ; the Leaves are alfo 
of a blueifh green, but with blackifh thorns; and they are thick and flefhy. The 
Flowers are ofa pale blue, not much differing from the colour of the reft of the Plant, 
but more bright and fhining. | 
Tue Root of this fpecies'has the fame virtues nie that of the preceding, but in an 
inferior degree. The antients eat the tender Leaves of both, as they did of the Burdock, 
| and many of the Thiftles. 
gc F AT RV -N-C-O. 
‘Plate 49. me 2 ae 
Charagter of the Species, Bry nani Planum. 
The radical Leaves are all fimple, flat, lightly wav’d or nick’d at the 
edges, and have hollow Footftalks. The Heads are plac ‘d on Foot- 
ftalks. | 
Fig. 2.4 5. 
‘Tuis is a Perennial, native of Swifferland, and moft other parts of Europe; a tall, 
handfome Plant, of regular growth and fingularly pleafing appearance ; flowering in July 
and Auguft. The Stalk is a yard high; tough and firm; very glofly on the furface ; na- 
turally of a faint and fimple green, but fometimes of a fhining blue, and fometimes of 
a fhining white ; in either of which ftates it is very beautiful. It rifes fingle from the 
ground ; but fpreads into a large, though compa¢t head ; its growth from the firft F fe 
being what we have called Proliferous, with a Footftalk, as in moft other of the Eryngos, 
The Leaves are as the Stalks in colour, pale green, blueifh or whitith; and fo it is 
with the Flowers: they are fineft of all when blue. Thefe variations in colour are very 
ftriking at firft fight ; but the Plant is perfectly and entirely the fame in all. They 
have done idly who gave the feveral appearances names ; Eryngium planum ‘Piide) 
planum ceruleum ; planum album ; for there is not the leaft difference elfe in the feve- 
ral Plants. | 
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