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FLORA, or the Punasurne-GarvDE™ 
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Flowers and Curious Plants now in their Perfetti 
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1 EVER-GREEN CENTAUREA, 
‘he is an elegant Plant; fingular in 
the holding its Leaves through Win- 
ter, and worthy a Place in any Gar- 
den, though it do not come within the Rank 
of Flowers. Morison has called it, Facea 
Lufitanica fempervirens: Ever-green Portugal Knap- 
weed; and Dopart adopting the fame gene- 
tical Name, retains alfo the fpecifick. Epithets, 
adding another from its Stature, Maxima: the 
greateft ever-green Portugal Jacea. 
Linn us found in few Inftances more Trouble 
than in the Arrangement of the Syagenefous 
Plants, of which this is one. — He has eftablifhed 
a large Genus under the Name Centaurea, and 
sn that he comprehends the prefent Plant: 
he calls it, Centaurea calycibus, ciltatis, foliis lanceo- 
latis fuperne-ferratis : Centaurea with ciliated Cups, 
and with the Leaves lanceolated and ferrated on 
the upper Part: but this laft Character is often 
Joft in the Plant when kept in good Ground. 
The Root is long, thick, woody, and hung 
with a few Fibres. ois 
‘The firft Leaves are numerous, long, nar- 
row, fharp-pointed, and broadeft in the middle : 
their Colour. is a dufky green, and fometimes 
they are ferrated, but not conftantly or regu- 
larly. eeee 
— The Stalk. is five Foot tall, frm, and full 
of Branches: it is highly ridged, otherwife 
is diverfified with Streaks of a 
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-brownifh red and green. 
they have rio Footftalks, they are long, narrow, 
and lanceolate; their Colour a pale green. 
| Fhe Flowers ftand in {caly Heads at the 
Tops of all the Branches, and on fhort leafy 
Footftalks from the Bofoms of the upper Leaves: — 
they are large, and of adingy red. 3 
The general Cup is {woln, roundith, and 
imade up of numerous Scales, with the Tops 
edged with firm Hairs of a redifh Colour. 
in this Cup ftands numerous Flofcules of 
two Kinds, not tubular and ligulated as in 
the Difcoide Kinds, but both tubular, though 
of different Forim: ats mre 
In the Difk or central Part are a Number 
of Flowers, which have both the male and 
female Organs. Thefe are oblong, and have 
the Bafe tubular and very fmall: the Verge ig 
{woln, and oblong, and divided at the Extremity 
into five narrow upright Segments. In the outer 
Part of the general Head ftand a fmaller Number 
of Flofcules, which have only female Organs; 
thefe are larger than thofe of the Difk, and 
have the tubular Part narrow, but gradually 
dilated, fomewhat bent; and the Verge ob- 
long, oblique, and irregularly divided into Seg- 
ments. Thus is formed the general Head of 
this Flower. | . 
In. the Flofcules of the Difk the Filaments — 
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Its Leaves refemble thofe from the Root: 2. 
