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Thc BRITISH HERBAL. 
It is common in hilly paflurcs, and flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Jacea major fqitammatis ca- 
pHulis. 
3. Grey Matweed. 
Jacea foliis cinereis. 
The root is compofed of many flender fibres. 
The ftalk is upright, brown, but covered with 
a cottony matter, not much branched, and rarely 
above ten inches high. 
The leaves are oblong and narrow, of a greyifh 
green, and cottony. Thofe toward the lower 
part are deeply divided, the others fcarce at all 
The flowers are large, and of a pale flefh- 
colour. 
It is found in our northern counties, and flowers 
in July. 
Ray calls it Jacea miner tcmefitofa lacimata j 
but the upper leaves ufually are undivided.- 
SERIES 
II. 
Foreign Genera. 
Thofe of which there is no fpecies native of this country. 
G E 
U 
I. 
GREAT CENTAURY. 
C E N T A U R I A. 
'T'HE flowers are collec^^ed into oblong heads ; which are compofed of numerous, thick, cluftered 
fcales : they are each formed of a Angle petal, which has a very flender, tubular bafe ; and is 
deeply divided into five fegments. 
llinnsEus places this with the refl: of the capitate plants among the fyngenefia^ their buttons in the 
flower coalefcing in a cylindric form. The common name of the genus is centaurium mnjtis : but 
that is an irregular term. It is better therefore to follow the modern pradice, and call it centauria. 
Common Great Centaury: 
Cenlauria •vulgaris. 
The root is long, thick, and of a redifli co- 
lour. 
The fl:alk is firm, upright, of a brown colour, 
four or five feet high, and divided iniio many 
branches. 
The leaves are very large, and pinnated in a 
regular and handfome manner : they are ferra- 
ted along the edges of the pinns, and of a yel- 
lowifli green. 
The flowers terminate the branches j and are 
large and purple. 
The feeds are oblong and glofly. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Centaurium majus folio in 
plures laciynas divifo. 
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