The vegetable SYSTExM. 
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ORDER VI. 
With the Scales of the Cup terminated by palmated or 
fingered Hairs. 
GENUS I.* 
PALM-WEED. 
P Y C N O C O M U S. 
The Scales of the Cup are egg-fhaped, and their fingered 
Hairs rife only trom the point. 
Plate 35. 0 a h. 
1. LANCED PALM -WEED. 
Plate 35. Fig. i. 
Character of the Species. Centaurea Sonchifolia. 
The Leaves are lanced; and cut deeply but fimply at the 
edge. 
Fig. a L 
This is an Annual, native of the Levant Iflands, and of Sicily, a 
tall and not unhandfome Plant, flowering in Auguft. The Stalk is 
ered: but tender, welted and green. The Leaves are of a very bright 
green. The Flowers of a deep crimfon. 
2. HARPED PALM - WEED. 
Plate 35. Fig. 2. 
Charadter of the Species. Centaurea Seridis. 
The Leaves are harped with a few fegments, and there is 
a circlet under the Flower. 
Fig. 2. a b. 
Th IS is a Biennial, native of Spain, a very beautiful Plant, flower- 
ing in Augufl: and September. The Leaves are of a pale green, and 
rough. The Stalk is weak, redilh, and about a Foot high. The 
Flowers 
