The VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
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We (hall have an opportunity of enquiring farther into the doftrir.e 
of Mulifli Plants, at the end of this Genus. 
7. HOLLO W’D SCABIOUS. 
Plate 28. Fig. 1. 
C u ara£ter of the Species. Scabiofa T artarica. 
The Leaves are lanc’d and deeply fa wed ; the lower ones 
are lightly pinnatifid ; and their Segments turn in, and 
make the Leaf hollow. 
Fig. 1. a b. 
This is a biennial, native of Tartary, and flowers in July; a very 
tall, ftately, and handfome Plant. The Stalk is five feet high, thick, 
and very upright and robuft ; the Branches are alfo coarfe and ftronr, 
and all covered with that fort of hairynefs, which gives the harfhnefs 
our Scabious has to the touch. The Leaves are rugged, and of a 
coarfe green. The Flowers are very large, and of a fine light crimfon 
when firft blown ; but they grow paler with flanding, and get a very 
faint look as they fade. 
8. SPREADING SCABIOUS. 
Plate 28. Fig. 2. 
Charafler of the Species. Scabiofa integrifolia. 
The Stalk is fmooth, and fpreads at the top with wide 
Branches ; the Leaves are lanc’d, dented at the edge, 
and hairy. 
. Fig. 2. ab. 
This is an annual, native of the South of France; and flowers in 
June. The Stalk is firm, of a dufky green, and two feet high. It rifes 
Angle, and fends out few Branches till near the top, where it divides 
and fpreads into a wide head ; unlike in this refpett to any other of 
the Scabioufes ; the Flowers are fmall, and the Heads globular. Their 
colour is a lingular crimfon, having fome faint dafh of a tint ap- 
proaching to blue, that plays in an uncertain manner upon the Buds; 
but is not feen in the open Flowers. 
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