194 TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Scabiosa. 



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

 A useless weed^, but not troublesome to the farmer. 



6d. SCABIOSA. Scabious. 



Linn. Gen. 48. Juss. \9i. FL Br. \70. Tourn. t. 263, 264. Lam. 

 t.57. Ga:rtn.t.86. 



Nat. Ord. same as 7i. 65. 



Commo7i 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, spread- 

 ing, 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 receptacle 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, divides 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.\A2. mild. v. \. 548. Fl.Br.l70. Engl. 



Bot. V. 13. t. 878. Curt.'Lond. fasc. 3. t. 10. Hook. Scot. 49. 



Fl. Dan. t. 279. 

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

 Succisa. Fuchs. Hist. 715. f. 

 S. sive Morsus diaboli. Matth. Falgr. v. 1. 571 ./. Camer. Epit. 



397. f. 

 Morsus diaboli. Ger. Em. 726. f. 



In grassy, rather moist, pastures. 



Perennial. August — October. 



Root blackish, abrupt at the \o\veY end. Stem a foot high, or more. 



