The vegetable SYSTEM. 
I. TWO-COLOURED SOFT THISTLE. 
Plate 19. Fig. i. 
Character of the Species. Centaurea Muricata. 
The lower Leaves are doubly pinnatifid ; the uppermoft 
are fimply waved. The Footftalks of the Flowers are 
long and naked. 
Fig. ab. 
This is an Annual, native of Spain, a very beautiful and lingular 
Plant, flowering in Augufl. The Stalk is tender and whitilh ; the 
Leaves are of a very delicate whitilh green : the Flowers are large, 
and have two colours, which is unufual in the Plants of this kind, 
the outer Florets being crimfon, and the inner yellow, with a mixture 
of white. 
2. GOLDEN SOFT THISTLE. 
Plate 19. Fig. 2. 
Character of the Species. Centaurea Peregrina. 
The Leaves are lanced and waved near the Bafe, and 
they have long naked Footftalks. 
Fig. 2. a b. 
This is a Biennial, native of Spain and Italy, alow Plant, but 
Angular and beautiful, flowering in Auguft. The Stalk is whitilh, 
and fcarce more than a Foot high : the Leaves are of a pale whitilh 
green, foft and downy j the Flower is very noble in itsfize, and alto- 
gether yellow. 
3. ROBUST SOFT THISTLE. 
Plate 19. Fig. 3. 
Chara£tcr of the Species. Centaurea Crocodilium. 
The Leaves are long and pinnatifid, with a broad harpy 
end. 
This is a Biennial, native of the Eafl, a tall and firm Plant full of 
llrong 
