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Show BAL. It is commoninhilly paftures, and flowers in July C. Bauhine calls it Facea major {quammatis ca- green, and c ard part are deeply d t sd, theothers fcarce a The flowers are large, and of pale colour. Iris found in our northern counties, and flowers in July. 3. Grey Matweed. Facea foliis cinereis. The root is compofed of manyflender fibres. The ftalk is upright, brown, but covered with } a cottony matter, not muchbranched, andrarely aboveten inches high. Raycalls it facea minor tomento/ but che upper leaves ufually are unc BRITISH HERBAL. % nM, BSH ye 2ts! Rs il. ForeiGcn GENERA. CLASS Thofe of which there is no fpecies native of this country. : G 2B wh Gukne ask C4) Wie C S i: NeDaA NAF. WC R SUE R ¥; BA Plants whofe flower is compofed of numerous flofcules,. or fmaller diftiné flowers; which are flat not tubular, to the end; and are arranged together in a fcaly cup; the whole naturally full or double; the entire number of flofcules forming each general flower being uniform, and regularly difpofed ; and whofe leaves and ftalks yield, on being broken, a white milky juice. THE flowers are collected into oblong heads; which are compofed of numerous, thick, cluftered {cales : they are each formed of a fingle petal, which has avery flender, tubular bafe ; and is deeply divided into five fegments. Linnzus places this with the reft of the capitate plants among the /yagenefia, their buttons inthe flower coalefcing in a cylindric form, The common name ofthe genus is centaurium majus: but thatis an irregular term. It is better therefore to follow the modern practice, and.call it centauria, Common Great Centaury: Centauria vulgaris. OGY: YI 7 The root is long, thick, and of a redifh colour. The ftalk is firm, upright, of a brown colour, four or five feet high, and divided; into many. branches, The leaves are very large, and pinnated ina regular and; handfome manner: they. are: ferrated along the edges of the»pinna, and of a’yellowith green. The flowers terminate the branches; and are large and ‘purple. The feeds are oblong and glofly. It is avnative of Italy, and flowers in June. C. Bauhine calls it C urium’ majus folio in plures lacinias divifo. XXVI. : HIEfirft glance, even of an unexperienced eye, fees thefe plants, numerous as they are, to be regularly conneéted with one another, and evidently divided from thofe of all the other claffés: but the prefent mode of fcience, banifhing the ufe of obvious charatters, and eftablithing its diftinétions only on the difpofition and nurnber of the minuter parts, confounds thefe plants with the capitate or thiftle kind defcribed before ; and with the corymbiferous, as well as fimply difcoide, to be defcribed hereafter under one general term, the /yngene/ia. Thus atranged together, they confticute the clafs diftinguifhed by that term in the Linnzanfyftem, and are with the thiftles ranked alfo with the violet and balfam. StecGaeaececeeenmeaaataaeeeeeetea Oe eee ES U Natives of BRIT ATN. Thofe of which one or more {pecies are found’ naturally wild in this country. GEN. 2U, ms LETTUCE. Die Gud) UCL. tharp pointedfeales, and folid. ‘The’feeds are winged with down, andtheftalks of the plant are tolerably firm s . ‘ Linnzeus places this among the /yngenefia; the filaments, as in the others, having buttons, which unite into a cylinder. aS aie flower is compofed of numerous, flat, or ligulated flofcules, notched at the extremity, and arrangedtogether in a fealy cup, of an oval or oblong figure, formed of Buaecou ye and aoaMeeySe ae ¢ END of te TWENTY-FIFTH |
