The vegetable SYSTEM. 
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high, flowering in Auguft. The Leaves are of a pale but delicate 
green : the Flowers are of a very fine crimfoii ; the Cups are vvhitifli, 
but not glofly. 
2. RAGGED WHITEHEAD. 
Plate 30. Fig. 2. 
Chara£ler of the Species. Ccntaurea DlfTeda. 
The Leaves are broad, lanced, and cut fo deeply and ir- 
regularly, that they look ragged at the edge. 
Fig. 2. a h. 
Th I s is a Biennial, native of Germany, and flowers in July. The 
Leaves are of a perfectly fine and bright green ; the Stalk is firm and 
tinged with brown ; the Cups are of a whitifli green, and the Flowers 
of a very ftrong crimfon. 
3. THORNY WHITEHEAD. 
Plate 30. Fig. 3. 
Chara<f?cr of the Species. CenUurea Spinofa. 
The Leaves are harped ; the Branches terminate in hard 
Thorns. 
This is a Biennial, native of Crete, and flowers in June. 
It is a low but very Angular Plant. The Leaves are of a pale green j 
the Stalks are whithh, and the Thorns in which they terminate are 
brown or redifli. The Cups are white, and the Flowers of a pale 
but very delicate crimfon. 
4. WOOLLY WHITEHEAD. 
Plate 31. Fig. i. 
Charafler of the Species. Centaurea Ragufina, 
The Leaves are pinnatifid, and their Lobes are rounded at 
the end. 
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