The VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
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the purfuit of it, we (hall have no mercy on any Clafs, Order, -f* cr 
Genus that would flop our courfe. The reader has here an inftance: 
while we acknowledge that this Plant in the method of nature, has its 
juft place between Teafell and Eryngium ; we give it under an Or- 
der different from either, and near Plants it does not belong to; be- 
caufe the feparate Cup of its Flower is of a different conftrudion ; 
and it is by that the ftudent is to know how and where to find the 
Plant : we fhall fhew him afterwards, according to this hint, where to 
place it. 
GENUS VII. 
SHEEPS RAMPION. 
J A S I O N E. 
Charafter of the Genus. 
The Head is globular ; the general Cup is formed of two 
ranges of Scales ; the one ered, the other dependent, 
and properly a fringe. 
Of this Genus we know but one Species. 
HAIRY SHEEPS RAMPION. 
Plate 23. Fig. j. sheeps rampiont. 
Chara&er of the Species. Jafione montana. 
The Leaves are linear, and flightly ferrated. 
Plate 23. a. 
This is an annual, native of dry hilly paftures, and common to Eng- 
land, and moft other parts of Europe ; a very handfome Plant. It 
grows to a foot or a little more in heighth ; the Stalk is (lender and 
weak ; pale, and a little hairy. The Leaves are of a pale and brownifh, 
or greyifh green. The Flowers are of a celeftial blue, large and very 
beautiful. It flowers in June. It is common about the farther edge of 
Hampftead Heath, near the Spaniards ; and in many other places in 
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