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Edwards, John, b. 1742 / A select collection of one hundred plates: consisting of the most beautiful, exotic and British flowers which blow in our English gardens: accurately drawn and coloured from nature, with their botanic characters, and a short account of their cultivation, their uses in medicine, with the Latin and English names
(1775)

[Dwarf hoary, greater centaury with a head like a pine cone; Greater hoary stock gilliflower],   pp. 32-Plate 64 ff.


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                               P     L    A 
    Centaurea. min. Gen. Plant. 984. Centaurium 
                    443. Cyans Tourn. 445." 
       Tarn Chara6ters are, 
       IT hath a compound Flower, whole difk, 
   Borders or rays, 13, of female Florets, whi 
   common, roundilh, fcaly Empalement, C; t6 
   the Top, and cut into five-Parts ; thefe hr 
   Summits; the Germen is fituated under the P 
   Stigma, the Germen afterward becomes a finE 
   have a flender Tube, but expands above, whe 
   are barren. 
      THis Genus of Plants is ranged in the 
   SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA FRUSTANEA; ti 
   compofed, of hermaphrod;t¢. Florets, which ar 
      Tuis Specie is, 
      CENTAUREA     (conifera) calycibus Scario 
  pinnatiffidus caule fimplici, prod. leyd. 142. ( 
  near the Root being fpear-ilaped, thofe on the 
  incanum, hurmile, Capite pini. Tourn. Intl. 
  Head iike a Pine cone.  Mdl. Sp. V. 
      THIS hath a perennial Root, which groA 
  faped Leaves, and afterward a fingle Stalk, ,mo 
  of the fame Shape with the other ; at the end 
  oblong4fcaly Empalement, each Scale being bo 
  appear in. une, and the Seeds ripen in A4ugu 
  ed of common Earth, in a Nurfery; and when 
  from.Weeds, and the following Autumn the 
  remain.  Mill. Gard. Did. 
                             P     L    A 
 Cbeiranthus. Lin. Gen. Plant. 815, Leucojum. 
                            Wall Fhwer; in 1 
     THE Charaders are, 
     IT hath a four leaved compreffed Empaleme 
 Flower liath four Petals placed in form of a Cro 
 fix parrallel Stamina, C, which are the length 
 fwelling Leaves of the Empalement, the other 
 Summits, which are reflexed at the Top; it h, 
 Stamina, fupporting a very fhort compreffed Sty 
 reflexed and permanent. The Germen afterwar 
 opening with two Valves, filled with compretkd 
    Tilts Genus of Plants is ranged in-the 
 TETRANDYNAMIA SILIGOSA, the Flowers ha 
 are lodged in long Pods. 
    TUiE Specie is, 
    Cherianthas (Cotcineus) foliis !anceolatis un 
fpear-fliaped Leaves, and an upright undivided 
HRff. 2, 24o, Greater hairy Stqck Gilliflower 
Stock Gilliflower. 
    This Sort rites with an upright ftrofg undivjL 
with long hoary Leaves, which are reflexed and 
Head ; out of the Centre of thie arifes the Fh 
frequently a Foot and half long, putting out tw 
this kind have longer Petals than any of the ocher 
reprefented, which .re of a bright red and make e 
flowery tribe. This flowers in June and July, at 


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