to 
The VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
that it fometimes has in a tough foil abroad, that it is fcarce like the 
fame Plant. 
12. WOODY SCABIOUS. 
Plate 30. Fig. 2. 
Character of the Species. Scabiofa Africana. 
The Stalk is woody ; and the Leaves have a few deep and 
irregular Segments. 
Fisj. 2. a b. 
This is a perennial, native of Africa, a wild and irregular growing 
Plant, but very beautiful, flowering in July and Auguft. The Stem is 
woody, and two feet high ; the lower part is covered with a brown 
bark; the young Shoots are tender, and of a whitifh green. The 
Leaves are of a light green ; the Flowers are numerous, large, and 
of a delicate pale crimfon. If this Plant be managed with care, by 
cutting off the faded Flowers, and allowing it water regularly, it will 
be covered with bloom all fummer. The Seeds may be fpar’d, for 
they feldom ripen here ; and the Plant is fo eafily propagated by cut- 
tings that we need not fave the Flowers for that uncertain purpofe. 
13. YELLOW SCABIOUS. 
Plate 31. Fig. 1. 
Character of the Species. Scabiofa Ochroleuca. 
The Leaves are doubly pinnatifid ; and their Segments 
fharp pointed. 
Fig. 1. a b. 
This is a perennial, native of Germany, and other parts of Europe, 
a Plant Angular in the diviflon of its Leaf, and colour of its Flower, but 
vet a true and genuine Scabious, flowering in July and Auguft. The 
St. Ik is thick, Arm, branched, and two feet high. The Leaves are 
lharply and elegantly divided ; their colour is a ftrong green ; and they 
are firm to the touch. The Flowers are yellow ; they are very nu- 
merous cn the Plan‘, and open in a long fucceftion, but their colour is 
by no means pleaflng; it is a dufky, though not ftrong yellow; and 
loon becomes paler and fainter as the Flowers continue open. 
14. VARIOUS 
