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The vegetable SYSTEM. 
GENUS II. 
SAW-WORT. 
SERRATULA. 
Character of the Genus. 
The Scales are oval, thin, and membranaceous throughout, 
I. VARIOUS LEAVED SAW-WORT. 
Plate 37. Fig. i. 
Common Saw-wort. 
Chara(£ter of the Species. Serratula Tindloria. 
d'he Leaves are fome Lmple, others harped with a vaft 
end, but all delicately ferrated on the edge. 
Fig. a b. 
This is a Perennial, native of our thickets and wafte grounds, 
and flowers in June ; a very elegant Plant. The Stalk is flender, 
upright, firm, and near a Yard high. The Leaves are of a very fine 
green ; the Flowers arecrimfon : the Cups alfo have a tindure of the 
fame colour. 
2. LINEAR-LEAVED SAW-WORT. 
Plate 37. Fig. 2. 
Charader of the Species. Serratula Spicata 
The Leaves are linear, and the Flowers are placed in a 
long fimple fpike. 
Fig. 2. a b. 
This is a Perennial, native of North America, and flowers in 
July ; a tall, ftately, and very Angular Plant. The Leaves are of a 
dull green ; the Stalk is red, thick, and a Yard or more in height. 
The Flowers are crimfon. 
3. G RASSY 
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