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This is a Perennial, native of Spain, and flowers in July : it is 
a fingular and not inelegant Plant: the Stalk rifes to a foot and a 
half : the Leaves are white and woolly j and the Flowers are of a 
very delicate yellow. 
7. PRICKLY GOATSBEARD. 
Plate 1 14. Fig. 7. 
Charaflerof the Species. Trajgopogon picroidos. 
The Cups are prickly, and fhorter than the Flower : 
the Leaves are fmuated. 
{Fig. 7. a b. 
This is a native of the Greek iflands, and flowers in Augull : a 
Plant of theSow-thiftle afpedt ; but with the Goatfbeard Cup : it is 
two feet and a half high. The Stalk is pale : the Leaves are of a 
fine green, and the Flowers are yellow : it bears the free air perfect- 
ly with us : and grows elfewhere fo well from the fcattered Seeds, 
that in the South of France it appears as native. 
8. HARSH GOATSBEARD. 
Plate 1 14. Fig. 8. 
Character of the Species. Tragopogon afperum. 
The Cups are covered with fhort liarfh briftles, and are 
fhorter than the Flower. 
Fig. 8. a. 
This is a Biennial, native of the South of France, and flowers 
in Augufl ; it is two feet and a half high : the Stalk is pale : the 
Leaves are of a fine frefh green, and the Flowers are yellow. The 
Cups have a yellowifh brown afpedt, which is owing to the Hairs on 
them, and is lingular ; the Plant has more the habit of the Sow- 
thiftles than Goatfbeard, but the Cup is inconteftibly of the Goatf- 
beard kind. 
The wild Goatfbeard of Germany has by fome been thought dif- 
ferent from that of England : but though a larger Plant, it is the 
fame. The Cups in the German kind are ufually foraewhat fhorter 
than in the Englilh, but not conftantly fo. 
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