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but tough, fo that it plays about in the wind without breaking, and 
offers its numerous Flowers to view in various ways, and in a very 
pleafing manner. The Leaves are of a frefh and pleafant green ; the 
hairs which form the Eyelafh at the bafe of the upper ones, are harfh 
and firm i and give (hat part of the Plant the fame harfhnefs to the 
touch that we feel in the common Scabious of our fields. The Flow-ers 
are of a light crimfon ; the Heads are not fo large as in fome of our com- 
mon Scabioufes ; but the colour and number of the Flowers, make 
good amends for that deficiency. 
16. GRASSY SCABIOUS. 
Plate 32. Fig. 2. 
Chara&er of the Species. Scabiofa Graminifolia. 
All the Leaves are linear ; but a little fwelling in the 
middle. 
Fig. 2. a. 
This is a biennial, native of Germany, a low Plant, fingular enough, 
but of no great beauty, flowering early in July. The Stalk is weak, 
tender and bowing, for the Flowers are large ; its colour is brown at 
the bafe, el few here green. The Leaves are of a frefh and fine green ; 
and have fo much of a graffy look, that, unlefs when the Plant is in 
flower, or bud rather, for then the colour is much more glowing ; it 
is not readily diftinguifhed from the grafs, among which it ufually 
grows. The Flowers are of a bright and fine crimfon. This Plant, 
when entire, would look very like a branch of the former, only that 
the Leaves have nothing of that eyelafhed hairynefs at their bafe. 
1 7. RUGGED SCABIOUS. 
Plate 33. 
Character of the Species. Scabiofa Janata. 
The Leaves are oval, and covered with a rough woolly 
matter. 
Plate 33. ab. 
This is a perennial, native of the Cape of Good Hope, unlike in ap- 
pearance to mod of the Cape Plants, but of a rough and robufl: afpedt, 
which to the curious eye, furpafles beauty. To deferibe it, will be to 
6 fay. 
