The vegetable SYSTEM. 
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12. ROUGH-EDGED BEN. 
Plate 40. Fig. 4. 
Characlerof the Species. Serratula Amara. 
The Leaves are lanced, and have a rugged Edge. 
Fig. 4. a. 
This alfois a native of Siberia, a Perennial of a Foot and half high. 
The Stalk is flender, but tough, and redifli. The Leaves are of a 
dufky green. The Flowers are of a bright crimfon. 
GENUS IV. 
CENTAURY. 
CENTAUREA. 
Charadter of the Genus. 
The Scales of the Cup are oblong, convex toward the bafe, 
dry, thin, and flatted toward the top • and thin along 
the edge. 
Plate 41. oah td. 
I. DELICATE CENTAURY. 
Plate 41. Fig. i. 
Charadler of the Species. 
Centaurea Crupina, 
The Leaves are winged and ferrated ; the Cups are oblong 
and {lender. 
Fig. 1. a b. 
This is an Annual, native of Italy and the South of France, a tall, 
ereft, and truly delicate Plant. The Stalk is pale ; the Leaves are of 
a dark but not unpleafant green, paler as they run higher up the 
Stalk, and more delicately divided. The Plant is a Yard high; the 
Flowers are of a delicate crimfon, and the Cups have a tinge alfo of 
the fame colour, Even the Seeds are beautiful, they refemble Shuttle- 
cocks. 
2. MUSKY 
