TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA.— Dipsacus. 193 



wool, giving way before they can injure the cloth. Some esteem 

 this but a luxuriant variety of the following, as it requires a very 

 richly manured soil, to preserve its characters, and useful pro- 

 perties. 



2. D. sylvestris. Wild Teasel. 



Leaves opposite, serrated. Scales of the receptacle straight. 

 Common calyx indexed, longer than the head. 



D. sylvestris. Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. 143. mild. v. 1. 544. Fl. 



Br. 168. Engl.Bot.v.\5.t. 1032. Curt. Lond.fasc.3.t.9. Hook. 



Scot. 49. Jacq. Austr. t. 402. Ger. Em. 1 167./. Cord. Hist. 



105,2./. RaiiSyn. 192. 

 D. fullonurn a. Linn. Sp. PL 140. Huds. 61. 

 D. n. 198. Hall. Hist. v. 1.86. 

 D. purpureus. Fuchs. Hist. 225. /. Ic. 128./ 

 Labrum Veneris. Lob. Ic. v. 2. 18./ 

 L. Veneris alterum. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 25./ Camer. Epit. 432./ 



About moist hedges, and by road sides, frequent. 



Biennial. July. 



Less robust than the foregoing, about 4 feet high. Leaves often 

 joined at the base, but less remarkably. Heads large, encom- 

 passed and overtopped by the long, leafy, common calyx. Scales 

 of the recept. straight, taper, prominent. Cor. light purple, or 

 lilac, 4 -deft, as in the preceding. 



3. D. pilosus. Small Teasel. Shepherd's Staff. 



Leaves stalked, with lateral leaflets. Common calyx de- 

 flexed, about the length of the head. 



D.pilosus. Linn. Sp. PL 141. Willd.v. 1.544. FLBr.\69. Engl. 



Bot. v. 13. t. 877. Curt. Lond.fasc. 1. t. 10. Hook. Scot. 49. 



Jacq. Austr. t. 248. Fl. Dan. t. 1448. 

 D. n. 199. Hall. Hist. v. 1.86. 



D. minor, sive Virga pastoris. Ger. Em. 1 168. Raii Syn. 192. 

 D. sylvestris, capitulo minore. Moris, v. 3. 1 68. sect. 7. t. 36. / 5. 

 Virga pastoris. Lob. Ic. v.2. 18./ Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 26./. 



Camer. Epit. 433./ 



In moist shady places, on a chalky, or limestone, soil. 



In various parts of Norfolk and Suffolk j also at Matlock bath, 

 Derbyshire, and occasionally in other places. In Scotland, ac- 

 cording to Lightfoot, but not common. 



Biennial. August, September. 



Stem 3 or 4 feet high, with spreading branches, angular, leafy, 

 rough with ascending hooked prickles. Leaves deep green, 

 ovate, pointed, strongly serrated, ternate. Fl. white, in small 

 globular heads. Anth. brown, or purplish. Scales straight, 



vol. 1. o 



