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The vegetable SYSTEM. 
Fig 1. a 
This is a Perennial, native of Crete, and other parts of the Eiff, a 
very elegant and lingular Plant ; the whole of it being as white as 
wool, only the Flower gold-yellow. It is a tall and budiy Plant ; 
the Stalks are hard, but downy on the furtace ; and the Leaves are 
foft and velvety to the touch. It flowers in Augufl:. 
5. ELEGANT WHITEHEAD. 
Plate 31. Fig. 2. 
Character of the Species. ' Centaurea Cineraria. 
The Leaves are doubly pinnatifid, and their Segments 
lliarp-pointed. 
Fig. 1 . a b. 
This is a Perennial, native of Italy, and flowers in July; a very 
elegant and beautiful Plant. The Stem is two Foot and a half high, 
whitifli, thick and branchy. The Leaves are of a dulky or greyiflii 
white. The Flowers are of a beautiful crimfon. 
6 . WEDGE-LEAVED WHITEHEAD, 
Plate 31. Fig. 3. 
Chara£ter of the Species. Centaurea Argentea. 
The Leaves are vvedge-fhaped ; and indented along the 
Tides, and at the end. 
Tins is a Perennial, native of Crete, and flowers in July and Augufl:. 
The Leaves are Angular, not only in their form but colour ; they are 
foft to the touch, and play about with great elegance and eafe, and 
their colour is a pure cottony white. The little clumps of them 
fcattered among the fands before the Stalk rifes, give a very Angular 
appearance to many barren fpots of that dry country. The Stalk is 
two Foot or more in height ; the Flowers are fmall and yellow. 
Their Cups in this as in the two preceding Species, are of a pure 
and perfed: white. 
GENUS 
