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Flowers are of a palecrimfon, and their Cups are very beautiful, hav- 
ing a ruddy glow, and the Hairs eredt. 
3. PINNATIFID PALM-WEED. 
Plate 35. Fig. 3. 
Charafter of the Species. Centaurca Romana. 
The Leaves are pinnatifid, with large indented fegments. 
Fig. 3. a b. 
This is an Annual, native of Italy, a large Plant a Yard in lieight, 
with many branches, flowering in July. The Leaves are of a fome- 
what blueilh green the Flowers are crimfon. Their Cups are of the 
fame green with the Leaves, but the Hairs of them are redifh. 
FAMILY III. 
With original and naked Scales. 
O R D E R I. 
With theScales of theCups fimple, or naked and undivided. 
GENUS I. 
ARTICHOKE. 
C Y N A R A. 
Charadter of the Genus. 
The Scales of the Cup are oval ; and have a thick flefhy 
Bafe. 
Plate 36. oak 
I. PRICKLY ARTICHOKE. 
Plate 36. Fig. 1. 
The Artichoke Thistle, 
Chara£ier of the Species. Cynara Humilis. 
The tops of the Leaves and points of the Scales in the Cup 
are hard and thorny. 
This 
