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The VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
dutty clofes, and by the fides of roads : but it is in gardens only that 
it appears in its full and proper luttre ; the clutter of Flowers detains the 
dull, and we fee little of their elegance, unlefs where they are kept in 
cleanly places. 
This Plant is altogether fingular. It not only conttitutes a Genus 
of itfelf, of which there is no other Species ; but is properly of no Clafs, 
natural or artificial. It is one of thofe which writers ufually call Ano- 
malous ; but in the higher views of Botany, it is one of the Intermediate 
or Connecting Plants. It has partly the character of the Tubulate or 
naked flowered Clafs, for its Chives cohere ; and partly of this of 
Aggregates, for each Flower is perfeCt, and has its proper Cup. There- 
fore in the order of nature, it leads from one of thefe Clafles to the 
other ; fills up an imagined gap between Clafs and Clafs in artificial 
methods, and joins the two, by deftroying the diftinCtion. The Union 
of its Chives , obliged us to give a figure of it before at the end of the 
lecond Clafs -f*, together with fome other fingular and connecting 
Plants, for it claimed thereby that character ; here we repeat it more 
at large, as in its more proper place, according to our plan for the 
union of its Chives is flight and imperfeCt, but its feparate Cup is per- 
fect and entire. 
ORDER IV. 
IVhofe particular Cup is double; or has two Ranges of 
Segments. 
GENUS I. 
SCABIOUS. 
S C A B I O S A. 
Character of the Genus. 
The Head is convex, and the general Cup is compofed of 
feveral Ranges of leafy Scales. 
Plate 24. O. ab. 
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