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Oétob. are dices they are very | fhort and delicate; and 
tum their Buttons are very long, and conneéted into a 
tubular Body. In. the midi of thefe i is placed a 
fingle Style, and this is terminated by an obtufe 
Head with a fine fplit Point. It rifes from a 
{mall Rudiment of a Seed placed beneath the | 
Flower. 
The Flofcules on the Verge have neither 
Filamenit$ Hor Style, Buttons nor. Heads, -but 
there is a Rudiment of a Seéd, as in the 
others, placed beneath the Flower. 
The five.tubular Buttons fhew the Plant to | 
be of the Syngenefious Clafs; and as the Rudi- | 
ments of Seeds under the female Flowers are 
always abortive, the Divifion to, which it be- 
longs is that of the Polygamia fruftranea. Xn 
many of the Syngensfia, théle F lowets; which 
have only female Parts, have them compleat, 
and the Seeds do not ripen in’ any others: - 
thefe are the Polygamia neceffaria, in others 
Seeds ripen equally after the Hermaphrodite 
Flowers of the Difk, and thofe female ;enes 
of the Rays: this is called Polycamia equalis, 
but in this Plant the Ferm is altogether ufelefs, .|« 
and the Rudiments of Seeds under the female 
Flofcules anfwer no Purpofe toward the Pro- 
pagation of the Plant. ; 
Culture of this CenTauREA. >. 
TE is a Native of Spain and Portugal, where 
it is too common about Vineyards; and every | 
_ where near cultivated Grounds, remaining green 
“through Winter, and flowering the noah 
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Part of the Year. With us it lives freely in Odctob, 
Gardens, affd fequires no farthereCare than “—~-—~ 
the Choicé of a warm dry Ste and good 
digging of the Ground, 
The Method of raifing it is cea Seeds. Thefe 
ripen very well with us, and fhould be fown 
in the Beginning of pri/ on an open Spot 
of Ground: when the young Plants come up, 
- they--muft bé& weeded, and at Times watered; 
and wheh they are* three ‘Inches hich, they 
muft be tranfplanted into another Bed in ‘the 
Nurfery, allowing them a Foot Space afunder. 
In the latter” Pee ‘Of September they mutt 
be removed into the Garden, and placed 
where «they; aresto remain. hey muft be dug 
out deep, and with a good Ball of Earth‘; 
and there mutt be afrcosiale opened for their 
Reception. They fhould be allowed a Yard’s 
Diftance, and. the Ground being kept weeded 
about them, and conftantly reneancr “with 
Water when too dry; they will flower all the 
fucceeding Summer, till late in Autumn, with 
gfeat Profufion 
To promote this, the Flowers fhould be 
hipped’ off as fdort aS “théit Beauty is paft; 
except where a few are left for Seeds. This 
fhould,be done once in two or three Years, 
for the Plants flower much more elegantly -the 
fecond and. third Seafon-than afterwards. 
The Gardener underftands by what we have 
had Occafion often to fay on this Subject, 
that this is the proper Management of all the 
large, robuft, hardy Plants, taken from Fields 
into the Garden. 
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“BROAD, LEAVED ‘SCABIOUS, 
‘Pi. 55. 
Fig. 2. Place in out Gardens to. the baths of 
their Afpeét rather than their Beauty.» 
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all called it by that Nathe. ©. Bauer's has 
called it, Scabiofa frellata folio vion Uiffetio; Dopdart, 
Scabiofa  frellata prolifera: ftellate Scabious with 
‘undivided Leaves, and proliferous Stellate Sca- 
bibus. ‘This laft Namie ‘has Bech given it from 
‘the Growth ‘of ‘the’ young: Shoots from 'the Bafe | 
‘of the ‘old Flowers, as in the common Cud- | 
weed, the ‘other froth the Dilfpofition 0 of ‘the 
Flowefs. 
“LIne £Us tefets it ‘a8 iché reft to the Sea- 
bible Kind, and diftinguifhés it from ‘the other | 
Species y the Addition of Corollis gitinquiifidis, | 
foliis lancevlatis fubiniegértimis: Scabious, with | 
the Flofcules divided into five Segments and | 
‘the Leaves lanceolate attd fiéarly ‘entire. 
The Root is long, and hung ‘with ‘many 
Fibres. 
The Stalk is round, firm, anlagnd: fimple, and 
eovered with alight Down. ~~’ 
| 
‘This 1 is Sib of thofe Plants which ‘owe (cic | ) 
“The. Scholle are placed: in Pairsy hey have 
fhort broad Footftalks which furround the main 
| Stalk at the Bottoms; and thefe are larger to 
botanical Writers’ have a lone: Tine | 
been acquainted with it, and though the Man- | 
ner of Growth and Flowering be very fingu-— 
lar, the Characters of the Scibious Kind ‘he 
fo thorotighly impreffed upon it, that they have 
the lower than to: the upper Leaves, 
~The Leaves themfelves are oblong, con- 
fiderably broad, of a pale green, fof to the 
touch, a little hairy, and lightly rib’d: they 
are broadeft toward the middle, fharp-pointed, 
and lightly indented aléng the Edees, 
The Flowers are large, naturally of a whitith 
Colour, tinged a little with green and with 
| purple. 
Sometimes they are perfectly white ; 
and fometimes they are throughout ftained 
| with a light Tinge of the Red. They are 
cottipofed of numerous Flofcules arranged ith a 
Kind ‘of Head; and they are placed in the 
| Divifions of the Branches, and at the Tops of 
the Side Shoots. 
The Progrefs of the Growth is this: a large 
Flower appears upon the Top of the Stalk ; 
and on each Side of this there foon ‘afte 
rifes a Footftalk: 
{ with two or three Pairs of Leaves ; and has at 
its Top another Flower : 
rife other Shoots, as at firft ufually two, fome- 
times four; and the Flowers at length appear 
each of thefe is decorated 
from the Bafes of thef 
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