The vegetable SYSTEM. 
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flowering in July. The Leaves are of a very deep green on the up- 
perfidc, and white and woolly underneath ; the Stalk is feven Foot 
high, and redilh ; the Flowers are crimfon : the Hairs of the Cup curl 
backwards. 
This is the Frontier Plant between the prefent and fucceeding 
Genus ; partaking almofl: equally of the Charadters of Gentle Thiflle 
and of Burdock. Its general Form and Habit are truly of the Gentle 
Thiflle kind j but its Cups approach fo nearly to the Burdock, that 
if the Hairs where they curl were only bent firmly down, they would 
be Burdock Heads. 
The Gentle Thiflle and Burdock are evidently diflindl Genera 
in Nature ; but this is an intermediate Plant, properly of neither 
Genus, but partaking of both; and in the Scale of Nature leading 
gently down from one to the other ; filling the imagined Gap be- 
tween them. The preceding Species begins, this compleats the 
gradation. 
GENUS II. 
BURDOCK, 
B ARD AN A. 
€hara£ier of the Genus, 
The Scales of the Cup are terminated by firm Hairs, 
which bend back at their Points, and form a kind of 
Hooks. 
PI. 25. 0 a b. 
1. ROUND-HEADED BURDOCK. 
Plate 25. Fig. i. 
Common Burdock. 
Character of the Species. Lappa Vulgaris. 
The Cups are round and even at the Bafe. 
Fig. i. a b. 
■ This is a Biennial, native of our way-fides, and flowers in Augufl. 
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