94 The VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
This is a native of the Alps and Pyrenees, an Annual of a foot 
and a half high ; a lingular and very beautiful Plant. The Leaves 
are of a frelh and fine green, but with fome tint of bluifh : the 
Stalk is pale : the Flower is large and yellow : the body of its Cup 
is green, and armed with fhort, weak, black fpines. The Fringe is 
of a faded brown. 
This Plant grows like the Sowthiftles, fo quick from Seeds to 
flowering, that here at Bayefwater, between the fecond of June, 
and this twenty-eighth of October, I have raifed three generations. 
3. NAKED STALK’D MAI THEN. 
Plate 129. Fig. 3.' 
Character of the Species. Crepis nudicaulis. 
The Leaves are harfh, lanced, and finuated : the Stalk 
fupports but one Flower. 
Fig. 3. ab. 
This is a Biennial, native of France and Spain ; a Plant of a foot 
high, flowering in June. The Leaves are of ayellowifh green, and 
arc crown’d with dufky fharp-pointed, hard hairs : the Stalk is yel- 
lowifh ; and the Flower is of a fine yellow. 
4. CRIMSON MAITHEN. 
Plate 130. Fig. 4. 
Chara&er of the Species. Crepis ruBra. 
The radical Leaves are deeply and clofe fmuated : the up- 
per ones are lanced, dented, and amplexicaul. 
Fig. 4. a i. 
This is an Annual, an Alpine Plant, Angular in the colour of 
its Flower, and the moft beautiful of all this kind : it is a foot high, 
and flowers in June. The Leaves are of a fine, frefh, but not 
deep green : the Stalk is pale, aud the Flower is of the moft ele- 
gant pale crimfon. 
5. PIN- 
