The vegetable SYSTEM. 
^ts own tendernefs, make it ufually lie almoft on the ground. The 
Leaves are numerous and of a blueifh green: The Flowers are very 
large and beautiful, they fpread out every way fo as to form a kind of 
globular Head ; and their Colour is a ftrong fcarlet, but little tend- 
ing to crimfon. Sometimes they are abfolutely white, but it is when 
the Plant (is fickly. 
ORDER V. 
With the Scales of the Cup torn as it were into irregular 
Segments at the end. 
GENUS I. 
T O R N - W E E D. 
L A C I N A R I A. 
Charadlcr of the Genus. 
The Cups are elliptick, and their Scales are chaffy. 
Plate 1 6 . sab. 
i.^SESSILE-HEADED TORN - WEED. 
Plate 46. Fig. i. 
Chara<£ler of the Species. Serratula Squarrofa. 
The Cups ftand in the Bofom of the Leaves without Foot- 
ftalks, and the Stalk is welted. 
Fig. i. a b. 
This is a Perennial, native 'of Virginia, a low but very lingular 
Plant, flowering in September. The Root is tuberous, the Stalk is 
thick, red, welted, and about a Foot and half high ; the Leaves 
are of a bright green, and a little downy. The Flowers are crimfon, 
and their Cups are^brown. In bad grounds the Flowers will be whitilh 
and their Cups finall, but this is accidental. 
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