CENT, 
50. Centaurea folrtitiaVis.; or St. Barnaby’s thiftle : ca¬ 
lyxes double, fpiny, folitary ; branch-leaves decurrent, 
unarmed, lanceolate; radical leaves lyrate, pinnatifid. 
Annual; native of the South of Europe; difcovered by 
Mr. Crowe, in a graffy field at Arminghall, two miles 
from Norwich. 
51. Oentaurea melitenfis, or clurter-headed centaury : 
calyxes double, fpiny, crowded, terminal : leaves decur¬ 
rent, lanceolate, finuous, unarmed. Grows about Mont¬ 
pellier, and in the ille of Malta ; annual. What we com¬ 
monly call the folflitialis is this fort. 
52. Centaurea ficula : calyxes cilia te, fpiny, terminal; 
leaves decurrent, lyrate, unarmed, hoary. Native of Si¬ 
cily ; perennial. 
53. Centaurea centauroides: calyxes ciliate, fpiny; 
leaves lyrate, pinnate, quite entire, the end divifion 
larged. Native of Italy, Spain, and Montpellier. 
54. Centaurea collina : calyxes ciliate, unarmed, fpiny; 
radical leaves bipinnatifid; dem acute, angled. Scopoli 
mentions feveral varieties. D’AfTo obferves, that the di- 
vifions of the leaves end in a harmlefs fpine ; and that the 
neuter florets in the ray are quadrifid. Native of Mont¬ 
pellier, Spain, Carniola, Italy, and Medina ; perennial. 
55. Centaurea rupertris, or rock centaury : calyxes 
ciliate, fpiny ; leaves bipinnate, linear. This is allied to 
the foregoing fpecies, in having the fcales of the calyx 
brown ciliate, territinated by a w eak Ample fpine, diorter 
than the fcale itfelf; but the inmofl fcales are fcariofe. 
The dem is little branched, and fcarcely angular; aimed 
all the leaves are bipinnate, linear, and except about the 
edge even, but by no means lanceolate, with the pinnas 
branched like a dag’s horn. Narive of Italy; perennial. 
VI. Crocodiloidea: fpines fimple. 56. Centaurea veru- 
tum, or dwarf centaury : calyxes mod Amply fpiny ; teeth 
two, oppofite ; leaves lanceolate, entire, decurrent; root 
annual; dem ere£t, eighteen inches high and upwards. 
Native of Paledine. 
57. Centaurea lalmantica, or lyre-leaved centaury : ca¬ 
lyxes fmooth, with a fubf'piny fetule danding out; leaves 
lyrate, runcinate, ferrate. Native of the South of Eu¬ 
rope; perennial; cultivated in 1596 by Gerarde. 
58. Centaurea eichoracea, or fuccory-leaved centaury: 
calyxes fetaceous, fpiny; leaves decurrent, undivided, 
ferrate, fpiny. Radical leaves a Abort fpan in length, three 
or four inches over in the wided part, entire, with only a 
few irregular toothlets.or fmall fpines; deni-leaves fmaller, 
narrower, with toothlets or diort fpinules round the edge, 
acuminate. Stem clothed to the top with leaves, and 
terminated by a fmall head, the fcales of which finifh in 
oblong recurved fpinules. Native of Italy, in Adontc 
Argentario. 
59. Centaurea muricata: calyxes very Amply fpiny; 
lower leaves pinnatifid, upper lanceolate ; peduncles very 
long; denis tender, dividing into many branches, with 
very fmall leaves on them. Native of Spain ? annual. 
60. Centaurea perigrina: calyxes fetaceous, fpiny; leaves 
lanceolate, petioled, toothed at bottom. The Items rife 
near three feet high, with entire leaves at each joint ; 
they are terminated by fingle large heads of flowers, of a 
gold colour, inclofed in a prickly calyx ; appearing in 
July and Augnfl, but never .producing feeds in this coun¬ 
try. Grow’s naturally in Aurtria and Hungary, from both 
winch countries Miller received the feeds before 1759. 
61. Centaurea radiata, or rayed centaury : calyxes al- 
mod unarmed and awned, radiate; leaves pinnatifid. Na¬ 
tive of Siberia. 
62. Centaurea nudicaulis, or naked-dalked centaury: 
calyxes fetaceous, fpiny ; leaves undivided, the upper 
ones a little toothed ; dem almort naked, one-flowered, 
fimple. Native of Provence, Spain, and Italy; perennial. 
63. Centaurea crocodilinm, or blufli centaury : calyxes 
fcariofe, very (imply fpiny; leaves pinnatifid, quite entire, 
the outmofi divifion larger toothed. Native of Syria; 
annual. 
64. Centaurea purnila, or dwarf centaury : calyxes very 
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fimply fpiny; leaves tooth-pinnate, villofe ; dem none. 
Found in Egypt by Hadelquid. 
63. Centaurea Tingitana, or Tangier centaury : calyxes 
fpiny at the edge ; leaves lanceolate, undivided, ferrate, 
fifbfpiny. Native of Tangier ; perennial. 
66. Centaurea galaflites, or white-veined centaury : 
calyxes fetaceous, fpiny; leaves decurrent, donate, fpiny, 
tomentofe beneath. This has the appearance of a thidle, 
but the neuter florets determine it to be a centaurea. 
Obferved by Ray in Sicily, Malta, and about Montpellier. 
VII. New fpecies. 67. Centaurea triumfetti : calyxes 
ferrate, with white cilias; leaves deeply pinnatifid, with 
two pinnas for the mod part, decurrent. It differs fro 111 
No. 14, not only in having the leaves condantly laciniate, 
but the cilias of the fcales white; however it may be no¬ 
thing more than a remarkable variety. Found about 
Mont Cenis, &c. perennial. 
68. Centaurea kartfehiana : calyxes ciliate, fpiny; leaves 
pinnate; pinnas fertile, lanceolate, decurrent, ending in a 
point. Itdirters from No. 23, in its habit, and other marks. 
69. Centaurea alata, or upright wing-rtallced centauiy : 
calyxes ciliate; fcales flat, appreffed, ciliate at the end; 
deni-leaves oblong, decurrent. Stems four feet high, 
fmooth, a little angular, and branched at top. The flowers 
are of a fine yellow, and grow in a fort of panicle at top; 
the calyx lntooth, green. Native of Tartary, as fuppofed. 
Cultivated many years in the Paris garden, and introduced 
in 1781 into the royal garden at Kew. 
70. Centaurea intybacea, or fuccory-Veaved centaury : 
calyxes ciliate; fcales flat, obtufe, ciliate at the end; 
leaves pinnatifid ; difk equal to the ray. Stem two feet 
high, upright, hard, driated, branched ; flowers purple, 
fletb-coloured, or white. This fort is perennial, and na¬ 
tive of the South of Europe, on the borders of fields and 
in dry padures. It was .introduced here in 1778. 
71. Centaurea diluta, or pale-flowered centaury: calyxes 
ciliate; fcales acuminate, fomewhat thorny; leaves ob¬ 
long and pinnatifid; flofcules of the pay longer than the 
difk. Introduced in 178?. This alfo is a native of the 
South of Europe: thefe, with the 69th, were introduce^ 
by Monf. Thouin. 
72. Centaurea tlrobilacea: calyxes fcariofe, fpiny, fer¬ 
rate, ciliated ; leaves dotted beneath, pinnated ; pinnas 
lanceolate, falcated, eredh The flowers are pale yellow ; 
the plant has no fmell : the fade is bittenfli ; perennial. 
73. Centaurea hybrida : calyxes ciliated, ending in a 
fpine; leaves pinnated, branch-leaves linear, lanceolate^ 
undivided, decurrent. This teems to be a mule between 
No. 50 and No. 16. It has the habit of the latter, and the 
fame height; the leaves are pinnated like that, but the 
branch-leaves are linear, lanceolate, undivided, and decur¬ 
rent. This fpecies perfects its feeds. Gl ows on the hills 
about Turin; biennial. 
74. Centaurea nicaeenfis: calyxes ciliate, fpiny; the 
leaves ovate, rough; radical leaves petioled, toothed; 
dem-leavfes embracing, decurrent. Stems rtriate, angular, 
eighteen inches high, alternately branched ; the whole 
plant is dark green, and rpughith. Found about Nice; 
biennial. 
75. Centaurea caefpitofa : calyxes palmate, fpiny; leaves 
finuate-toothed, the lower ones petioled, the upper ones 
half rtem-clafping. Roots perennial, woody, dry, perpt ■- 
dicujar, black on the outfide ; (terns dividing from the 
very bottom into numerous procumbent branches ; they 
are thickifh, round, from a foot to two feet in length ; the 
flowers have a drong difagreeable fmell, Native of'Italy, 
on.the fea-diore near Naples, forming very thick tufts in 
the land. 
76. Centaurea elegans : dem fimple; leaves undivided, 
linear; axillas one-flowered, and one terminal flower. 
Height eighteen inches ; (tem round ; axillary flowers on 
a peduncle diorter than the leaf; flower blue; annual'. 
Found in the vineyards of Unelia, by Dana. 
77. Centaurea aurea, or great golden centaurv : calyxes 
mod fimply thorned, thorns fpreading; flofcules equal'. 
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