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The vegetable SYSTEM. 
G E N U S I. 
RHAPONTICK. 
RHAPONTICA. 
Character of the Genus. 
The Cup is elliptic, and its Scales are large. 
Of this Genus we know only one fpecies. 
Plate 44. a a 
j, EGG-LEAVED RHAPONTICK. 
Plate 44. Fig. i. 
Charaiter of the Species. Centaurea Rhapontica. 
The Leaves are egg-fhaped, indented, and placed on Foot- 
ftalks. 
Fig. ah c. 
Th IS is a Perennial, native of Switzerland and Italy, found princi- 
pally on the mountains, and flowering in July, or earlier. The Leaves 
are of a frefh green on the uppcrfide, but woolly underneath ; the Stalk 
is feldom more than a Foot high; the Flower is large and crimfon. 
This is not the Plant whofe Root is the Rhapontick of the fliops ; that 
is a true and genuine kind ofRhubarb. 
ORDER III. 
With the Scales of the Cup naked, but winged or cut 
into deep and fimple Divifions. 
GENUS I. 
WOO L-W E E D. 
E R I O P H A. 
Character of the Genu*. 
The Cup is egg-{haped, and its Scales are hard. 
Plate 44. » ah. 
Of this Genus alfo we know only one Species. 
I. WAVY 
