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T h-e VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
Nature has given in the Head of this Plant a mechanic inflru- 
ment, a kind of Brufli for drefling cloth. We cultivate it ; and the 
Heads grow larger, and the ends of their Scales turn backward, and 
become more ufeful. 
2. JAGGED TE A.S ELL. 
Plate 2. Fig. i. 
Charafler of the Species. Dipfacus Laciniatus. 
The Leaves are cut in deep Segments, but unite at their 
Bafe. 
Fig. i . a b. 
This is a biennial, native of France and Germany, and flowers in 
July. The Stalk is firm, upright, five feet high, and whitifh. The 
Leaves are of a frefli and fine green ; they grow together at their bafe, 
the Stalk running through them; fo that they make a kind of bafon 
for holding water. The Scales of the head are whitifia ; the Flowers 
are crimfon. 
GENUS II. 
S H E P H E R D’s ROD. 
V I R G A. 
Charafler of the Genus. 
The Head is round, and the general Cup is fhorter 
than the Flowers. 
Plate 3. 0. a b. 
Of this Genus we know but one Species. 
ROUGH SHEPHERD’S ROD. 
Plate 2. SHEPHERD’S ROD. 
Chara£ter of the Species. Dipfacus Pilofus* 
The Leaves have two Appendages or fmall Leaves at their 
Bafe. 
Plate 3. a b. 
This is a biennial, native of our wafte grounds, but not very com- 
mon; a fingular and pretty Plant, flowering in July and Auguft. 
The 
