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Scabiosa Caucasea. Caucasian 

 Scabious. 



Oafs and Order. 

 Tetrandria Monogynia. 



Generic Charafter. 



Cat. communis polyphyllus ; proprius duplex, fuperus. 

 Recept. paleaceum f. nudum. 



Specific Characler. 



SCABIOSA caucafea ; corollulis quinquefidis radiantibus, 

 foliis lanceolatis utrinque attenuatis hifpidis ball 

 connatis, calycibus internis externos bis fuper- 

 antibus. 



Descr. Stem ere&, fimple, round, pubefcent, terminating in a 

 long, naked, round peduncle. Leaves oppofite, lanceolate, 

 narrowed at both ends, quite entire or with here and there a 

 fmall tooth, hifpid with white, adprefled, ftiffifh hairs. Flower 

 folhacy, very large, radiated. Involucre about ten-leaved : 

 leaflets lanceolate-acuminate, terminated in a fharp mucro, 

 hairy. Palea linear-lanceolate, very hairy, longer than the 

 florets of the diflk. Florets of the radius tubular, with an un- 

 equal five-cleft limb, the three outer fegments many times 

 larger than the two inner, all obtufe and villous without : 

 florets of the dilk tubular, with a five-cleft equal border, ex- 

 ternal calyx membranous, cupped, plicate ; interna! calyx of 

 five, briftle-fhaped, black leaflets, twice the length of the ex- 

 ternal. Germen covered with long white down. Style oblique. 

 Stigma globofe. Seeds hairy, crowned with both the calyces. 



This fpecies has very great affinity to Scabiosa grami- 

 nifolia, but the ftem is more ereft, the flowers are much 

 larger, the leaves broader and lefs filvery, with longer and 



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