Tat SVIE'G B TAL BiIIAEr & ¥ ST; EM. 67 
7 F.0 RBI De R VO. 
Plate-§2. ¢ Fig. +. 
Character of the Species. Eryngium Pufillum, 
The Stalk fplits forkwife into two at the Head; the Leaves are lanc'd 
and ferrated. 
| Fig. I.abe, 
Tuts is a Perennial, native of Spain and Italy ; a low Plant, of no great beauty; 
flowering in July and Auguft. The Stalk is round, tough, of a pale green; and lies 
in part upon the ground. It feldom grows to more than a foot in heighth; and its 
colour is a pale whitifh green. The Leaves are of a bright and pleafing green. _ The 
Flowers are of a blueifh white; they are not large ;*but they fit fo clofe upon the 
Stalk, that their fingularity gives them an afpect of prettinefs, which generally makes 
the Plant taken notice of among fuch as are handfomer. | 
STE ND PR Ga, Ge 
- Plate 52. Figs 2. ! 
Character.of the Species. <a : | Eryngium Alpinum, 
The Stalks are weak ; the lower Leaves are heart-fhap’d, and fawd at 
the edge; the others are pinnatifid with a broad bale. — 
| Fig, 2.@ dé. 
Tuts is a Perennial, native of the mountains of Swifferland, and of fome other parts — 
of Europe; a very pretty Plant, of a foot and a half or more in heighth ; flowering in 
July. The Stalk is tough, but weak. It naturally bends, but does not eafily break; — 
the Leaves are of a faint green; the upper ones are of a firm fubftance, and are thorny 
at the ends and points of the divifions. The Flowers are of a very fine blue, and make 
a handfome figure at the tops of the Branches, part of which is ufually ting’d to fome 
diftance below them, with the fame glowing colour. — or | 
Tur Root of this kind, when dry’d, has a very fine aromatic flavour, light and with- 
out heat. It refembles the tafte of the common Eryngo Root, but is vaftly more deli- _ 
cate. ‘The Plant is common enough where it is native ; and it would be worth while 
to import a quantity of its Root for trial in medicine. 
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