The vegetable SYSTEM. 13 
7'his is a Biennial, native of Germany and SwifTerland, and 
flowers in Auguft. The Stalk is fimple, and about a foot high ; 
pale and hard. The Leaves are of a faint, but not unpleShng green. 
The flowers are whitifli, with a dafh of yellow ; as are alfo the 
Scales of the Cup, and the Circlet, at its Bale. 
Let none wonder that I have feparated the three plants of this 
plate from the two of the preceding, under a new Genus : the dif- 
tindtion in theCups is great and obvious ; and to the want of fuch fe- 
parate arrangements is to be attributed the confufion hitherto com- 
plained of in the Thiftle Clafs. 
2. UNARMED EGG-THISTLE. 
Plate 6. Fig. 2. 
CharaAer of the Species. Cnicus Centauroiies. 
The Leaves are doublj- pinnatifid, and they are deflitiite 
of Thorns. 
Fig. 2. a b. 
This is a Perennial; native of the Pyrenrean mountains, a Plant 
of four foot high, with elegantly divided Leaves, and large flowers. 
The Stalk is pale, and not much branched : the Leaves are of a faint 
green on the upper fide, and whltifh underneath. The Flowers are 
crimfon ; and they blow in Augufl:. 
3. SIBERIAN EGG-THISTLE. 
Plate 6 . Fig. 3. 
Charafler of the Species Cnicus Cernuus. 
The Flowers droop ; the Leaves are lanc’d and hearted 
at the Bafe, curl’d at the Edge, and prickly. 
Fig. 3. a b c. 
This is a Biennial, native of Siberia ; a Plant of a foot and an 
half high, flowering in Auguft. The Stalk is brownilh : the I.,eaves 
are of a fine green : the Flowers droop a little, and are of a delicate 
crimfon. The Cups are a little jagged towards the top, but the 
Thorns are foft and Ample. 
This is the Plant, which in the order of nature connects the pre- 
lent and preceding Genus. 
ORDER III. 
With the Cup form’d of degradating Leaves ; tho inner 
Range of which are hard, dry, aud fcaly. 
VoL. III. E GEN U s 
