SYNGENESIA-POLYGAM.-^QU. Serratula. S83 



sue the inquiry, may ascertain, by culture and observation, how 

 far any of them are entitled to rank as species. I do not pro- 

 fess to have investigated the subject. 



383. SERRATULA. Saw-wort. 



Linn. Gen. 403. Juss. 1/4. Fl. Br. S45. Dill. Gen. 138 t 8 

 Lam.t. 666. Gcertn. ^ 162. 



Common Cal. oblong, nearly cylindrical, imbricated, of 

 numerous, lanceolate, unarmed scales, permanent, un- 

 changed. Cor. compound, uniform ; Jlorets rather nu- 

 merous, perfect, equal, tubular, funnel-shaped ; the limb 

 in 5 deep equal segments. Filam. capillar}^, very short. 



. Anth. in a cylindrical tube, the length of the corolla. 

 Germ, obovate. Style thread-shaped, scarcely promi- 

 nent. Stigm. oblong, reflexed. Seed-vessel none but the 

 unaltered calyx. Seed obovate, somewhat angular. Down 

 sessile, rough, or feathery, permanent. Recept. chaffy, 

 or hairy, flat. 



Perennial upright herbs ; with serrated or pinnatifid, rarely 

 entire leaves. Fl. corymbose, terminal, erect, crimson 

 or purple, in some incompletely dioecious. Seed-down in 

 some merely rough ; in others finely feathery. 



1. S. tinctoria. Common Saw-wort. 



Leaves with copious bristly serratures, pinnatifid, some- 

 what lyrate; terminal lobe largest. Seed-down roughish. 



S. tinctoria. Linn. Sp. PI. 1 144. Willd. v. 3. 1638. Fl. Br. 845. 

 Etigl. Bot. v.l.t. 38. Hook. Scot. 235. Fl. Dan. t.281. Besl. 

 Hort. Eyst. cestiv. ord. 1 1. t. A.f. 2. 



Serratula. Raii Sijn. 196. Bauh. Pin. 235. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 

 295./. Catner.Epit.6S2.f. Ger. Em.7\3.f. Lob. Ic. 534./. 

 Bauh. Hist.v. 3. 23./. Dod. Pempt. 42. f. Dalech. Hist. 1357./. 



Carduus n. 163. Hall. Hist.v. 1.71. 



Common Saw-wort. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 22. f. 6. 



/3. Broad Saw-wort. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 22. f. 5. 



In groves, thickets, and grassy pastures. 



Perennial. Juhj, August. 



Boot rather woody. Herb rigid, smooth and shining. Stem erect, 

 straight, 2 or 3 feet high, angular, striated, solid, often reddish, 

 not branched, except at the summit. Leaves variously pinna- 

 tifid, in more or less of a lyrate manner ; in /3 all undivided ; 

 always acute, with fine, copious, bristly serratures ; now and 

 then downy beneath. Fl. corymbose, handsome, of a purplish 

 crimson. Cal. somewhat coloured 3 the edges of its scales downy. 



