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The vegetable SYSTEM. 
or three Inches high ; the Flower is white j the Hairs of the Cup arc 
black. 
3. SERRATED LEAVED KNAPWEED. 
Plate 29. Fig. 3. 
Charafler of the Species. Centaurea Scflillflora. 
The Leaves are lanced and iLarply ferrated, and they have 
Footflalks. 
Fig. 3. ab. 
Thi« is a Biennial, native of France, and alfo of Sicily, and 
flowers in Auguft. The Leaves are of a very ftrong green ; the Stalk 
is'purplifli. The Flowers are crimfon, and the Tops and Hairs of the 
Cups are of the fame colour, but duller. 
ORDER III. 
With the Scales of the Cup ferrated, and haired at the point 
and Tides. 
GENUS I. 
WHITEHEAD. 
S T iE B E. 
Chara£kr of the Genus. 
The Cups are oval, and the Hairs upon the Scales are foft. 
Plate 30. 0 a b, 
I. PINNATIFID WHITEHEAD. 
Plate 30. Fig. i. 
Character of the Species. Centaurea Paniculata. 
The Leaves are pinnatifid with a few plain lanced Segments. 
Fig. \. a b. 
This is an Annual, native of France and Germany, and com- 
mon to many other parts of the world ; a Plant of two Foot and a half 
