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derneath ; and as they rife in vatt clutters from the Root, and remain 
all the year, they, for a very confiderable part of that time, have per- 
fectly the look of Grafs. The Flower: are fmall and yellow : their ge- 
neral Cup is by much the moft confpicuous part ; and itfelf, in tome 
degree, refembles a large whitifh Flower ; in which, at any dittance, 
the feparate Flowers feem only as a clutter of yellow Filaments. 
Though the name be new, the Plant is not altogether fo; the accu- 
rate Haller, plainly and certainly knew it. He and Linnaefis both, have 
thought that it is one of Bauhine and Ray’s Beupleurums ; but if then- 
accounts of that Plant -f- are fairly compared with this, it will, I think, 
be found otherwife. 
GENUS IV. 
BEARWEED. 
ARCTOPUS. 
Chara&er of the Genus. 
The Head is flat, and compofed of many Flowers without 
Footfhlks. The general Cup is larger than the Head, 
formed of one piece, divided into four parts, and thorny 
at the Edge. 
Plate 20 . o. a b. 
This is the character of the female or feed bearing Plants : there are 
barren or male Plants of the fame Species, in which the Flowers have 
Footfhiks ; and the general Cup is equal to them in length, and 
formed of five Leaves. 
Plate 20.2. 
Of this Genus we know but one Species. 
STARRY BEARWEED. 
Place 20. 
Charafter of the Species. Arctopus Echinatus. 
The Leaves are fringed with yellow Threads ; and armed 
on the furface with Farry Thorns. 
Plate 20. a b. 
This is a perennial, native of the Cape of Good Hope; a mott: 
fingular Plant, ragged as it were, and fringed and covered with a kind 
f Perfoliata Alpina Anguftifolia media. 
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