194 TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Scabiosa. 



fringed, as is also the erown of the seed. Cor. unequally 5 -cleft. 

 A useless weed, but not troublesome to the farmer. 



66. SCABIOSA. Scabious. 



Linn. Gen. 48. Juss. 194. FL Br. 170. Tourn. t. 263, 264. Lean. 

 t. 57. Gartn. t. 86. 



Nat. Ord. same as n. 65. 



Common Cal. many-flowered, of numerous spreading leaves, 

 surrounding the receptacle in several rows, and attached 

 to it; the innermost gradually smaller. Proper Cal. 

 double, superior, permanent; the outer shortest, mem- 

 branous, plaited, ribbed ; inner in 5, or more, deep, awl- 

 shaped, slender, sometimes feathery, segments. Cor. of 

 each flower monopetalous, tubular, dilated upwards; 

 limb in 4 or 5, equal or unequal, segments. Filam. 4, 

 spreading, lax, from the mouth of the cor. longer than 

 its limb. Anth. oblong, incumbent. Germ, inferior. 

 Style thread-shaped, about as long as the corolla. Stigma 

 obtuse, cloven. Seed naked, solitary, crowned with the 

 double, enlarged or expanded, calyx. Common recep- 

 tacle convex, either chaffy, bristly, or naked. 



A numerous, chiefly Europaean, genus, generally perennial, 

 in a few instances shrubby. Stem round, leafy. Leaves 

 opposite, mostly hairy ; generally compound, or divided. 

 Fl. solitary, terminal, stalked, purplish, or yellowish 

 white. The outermost corollas being often largest, render 

 the whole aggregate Jlower radiant in several species. 

 The corolla being in some 4-cleft, in others 5-cleft, di- 

 vides the whole into two great sections. 



1. S. succisa. Devil's-bit Scabious. 



Corolla in four equal segments. Heads nearly globular. 

 Stem-leaves distantly toothed. 



S.succisa. Linn. Sp. PL 142. Willd. v. 1.548. Fl. Br. 170. Engl 

 Bot. v. 13. t. 878. Curt. Lond.fasc. 3. t. 10. Hook. Scot. 49. 

 Fl. Da?i. t. 279. 



S. radice succisa, flore globoso. Rail Syn. 191. 



Succisa. Fuchs. Hist. 715. f. 



S. sive Morsus diaboli. Matth. Valgr. v. 1. 571./. Comer: Epit. 

 397./. 



Morsus diaboli. Ger. Em. 726./ 



In grassy, rather moist, pastures. 



Perennial. August — October. 



Root blackish, abrupt at the lower end, Stem a foot high, or more, 



