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The vegetable system. 
7. H A I R Y - CU P ’ D S I M S O N. 
Plate 75. Fig. 7. 
Charadler of the Species. Eiigeion Alpinum. 
The Cups of the Flowers are remarkably hairy. 
Fig. 7. 
This is a Perennial, native of Germany and Switzerland, and 
flowers in Augufl: : it is a foot and a half high ; the Stalk is often 
reddifli, and always lightly hairy : the Leaves are of a faint and dull 
green : the top of the Stalk is terminated by two or three Flowers : 
they are of a fine deep crimfon, with a tinge of blue; and the down 
which follows on the Seeds, is not white, as in mofl: Plants, but 
brown. 
8. ONE-FLOWER’D SIMSON. 
Plate 75. F'ig. 8. 
Chara£ler of the Species. Erigeron unifloruin. 
T'he Stalk iupports only one Flower, the Cup of which 
is woolly. 
Fig. 8. g. 
This alfo is an European, native of the German hills, and mofl 
common at the foot of the Swifs mountains. The Stalk is brown : 
the Leaves are of a dark and frrong green : the Flower, which fingly 
terminates the Stalk, is crimfon ; and is fet off extremely by the 
contraft of colour in the Cup; for that is white and woolly. 
9. CILLATED SIMSON. 
Plate 76. Fig. 9. 
Cluracler of the Species. Erigeron gramincuni. 
The Leaves are narrow and linear: their Edge is rough, 
and armed with a kind of fliff hairs. The Stalk fup- 
ports only one Flower. 
Fig, 9. a I/. 
This is a native of Siberia, a dwarfifli Plant, which the cold 
feems to have flunted and half killed. The Stalk is of a brownifh 
green ; 
