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 Drypis spinosa. Prickly Drypis. 



Class and Order. 

 Pentandria Trygynia. 

 Generic Character. 

 Cal. 5-dentatus. Petala 5. Caps, circumscissa, monosperma. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Drypis spinosa. Sp. PL 390. Willd. 1. 1 5 13. Per soon 



Syn. 1. p. 331. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 175. J acq. 



Hort. Find. 1. p. 19. t. 49. Scop. Cam. 1. p. 225. 



Gaert. sern. 2. p. 218. t. 128. / 12. 

 Drypis spinosa ; foliis oppositis subulatis, stipulis lanceolatis 



dentato-spinosis. Lam. illustr. v. 2. p. 550. t. 214. 

 Drypis italica aculeata, floribus albis umbellatis compactis. 



Mich. Gen. 24. t. 23. 

 Drypis Spina alba foliis vidua. Bauh. Pin. 388. 

 Drypis Theophrasti Anguillarae. Lob. Hist. 460. Ed. Germ. 



965. Lob. ic. 780. / 1. 

 Drypis Ger. emac. 1112! 



Carduus foliis tcnuissime spinosis ad instar Juniperi. Morison 

 - Hist. 3. p. 161. § 7. t.32.f.S. 



Descr. Stem weak, diffuse; branched, knotted: joints 

 hollowed on one side, convex on the other, each changing 

 alternately ; said to be biennial, but according' to others be- 

 coming shrubby ; the arid branches of one year throwing out 

 green branches the next. Leaves opposite, subulate, flat on 

 the upper and convex on the under side, spinescent; superior 

 ones lanceolate, toothed at the base. Flowers pink-coloured 

 or white, aggregate in dichotomous corymbs. Calyx tubular, 

 5-toothed. Corolla of five narrow bifid petals with long slen- 

 der claws, crowned at the faux with two scales like those of 

 the genus Silene. Stamens 5, equalling the petals. Germcn 



round, 



