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Thr vegetable system: 
I. WAVY wool-weed. 
Plate 44. Fig. 2. 
Charader of the Species. Centaurea Eriophora. 
The Leaves are oblong and waved, and thofe loweft down 
are dented. 
This is an Annual, native of Portugal, a very lingular and beautiful 
Plant, flowering in July. The Stalk is whitilh, welted, and more 
than half a Yard high j the Leaves are foft and of a whitilh green ; 
the Flowers are yellow ; and their Cups are white and woolly. 
ORDER IV. 
With the Scales of the Cup naked but fingered ; or cut 
into deep Divifions like Fingers of a hand. 
GENUS I. 
B U L L - W E E D. 
SPHiEROCEPHALA.. 
Chara£ter of the Genus. 
The Cup is oval, and its Scales ftand loofe. 
Of this Genus we only know one Species. 
Plate 45. 
a b.. 
I. ROUGH BULL-WEED. 
Plate 45. Fig. I. 
Chara£fer of the Species. Centaurea Sphaerocephala. 
The Leaves are dented, rough at the edge, and embrace 
the Stalk, 
Plate 45. ab. 
This is a Biennial, native of Africa, and frequent as our Thirties 
about Tangier, covering the burnt Sands with its crimfon Flowers all 
the months of June, July, and Auguft. The Stalk is weak, branched, 
and about a Foot high naturally, but the weight of the Flowers and 
its 
