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TETRAD DRI A MONOGYNIA. 

 65. DIPSACUS. Teasel. 



Linn. Gen. 48. Jiiss. 194. Fl. Dr. 168. Tourn. t. 205. Lam. t. 50. 

 Gartn. t. 80. 



Nat. Ord. Aggregatrc. Linn. 48. Dipsareo'. Jiiss. r)6, N. 66. 

 the same. 



Common Cal, many-flowerecl, of man}^, spreading, perma- 

 nent, leaves, longer than each flower. Proper Cal. supe- 

 rior, double, short, undivided. Cor. of each flower mo- 

 nopetalous, tubular; limb in 4- or 5 lobes, erect; the outer 

 segment largest. Filam. capillary, from the mouth of the 

 corolla, longer than its limb. AntJi. oblong, incumbent. 

 Germ, inferior. Style thread- shaped, the length of the 

 cor. Stigma simple, or cloven. Seed naked, solitary, ob- 

 long, angular, crowned with the proper cal. Common re- 

 ceptacle conical, beset with acute scales, separating the 

 flowers, and extending beyond them. 



Herbaceous, biennial, rough with prickles or bristly hairs. 

 Leaves opposite, often combined. -Ft. purplish, or white, 

 in terminal heads, surrounded by a leafy common calyx. 



*1. T>.fullomim. Manured, or Fuller's Teasel. 



Leaves combined, serrated. Scales of the receptacle hooked 

 backwards. Common calyx reflexed. 



D. fulloniim. Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. 143. JViUd. v. 1. 543. FL 



Br. 1 08. Engl. Bot. v. 29. t. 2080. Ilooh: Scot. 49. 

 D. fullonum /3. ''Linn. Sp. PL 140. Iliids. 61. 

 D. sativus. Ger. Em. 1 107. /'. Raii Sijn. 1 92. 

 D. albus. Fuchs. Hist. 224.}: Jr. 127./ 

 Carduus fullonum. Lob. Ic. v. 2. M . f. 

 Labrum Veneris. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 24./. Camer. Epit. 431./. 



About hedges, according to Hudson ■ but sc.ircely wild. 



Biennial. Juhj. 



Root fleshy, tapering, branched. Stem 5 or 6 feet high, erect, 

 strongly furrowed, prickly, leafy, branched at the top. Leaves 

 sessile, combined at the base, serrated ol* jag£;ed, naked, with 

 prickly ribs. Ft. whitish, with pale purple anthers, very nume- 

 rous, in a close, obtuse, conical head, th<> intermediate scales 

 bristly at the edges; rigid, and hooked at the points; by which 

 they are rendered serviceable for carding woollen cle^th, being 

 fixed, in several rows, in wooden frames with handles, adapted 

 for that purpose. The scales arc just strong enough to raise the 



