3S2 SYNGENESIA— POLYGAM.-^.QU. Serratula. 



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. 408. Juss. 174. Fl. Br. 845. Dill. Gen. 138. t. 8. 

 Lam. t. 666. Gcertn. t.\62. 



Common CaL oblong, nearly cylindrical, imbricated, of 

 numerous, lanceolate, unarmed scales, permanent, un- 

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

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

 in 5 deep equal segments. Filam. capillary, very short. 

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

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

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

 unaltered calyx. Seed obovate, somewhat angular. Dow7i 

 sessile, rough, or feathery, permanent. UecepU 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-doum in 

 some merely rough ; in others finely feathery. 



1. S. ttnctoria. Common Saw-wort. 



Leaves with copious bristly serratures, pinnatifid, some- 

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



S. tinctoria. Linn. Sp. PL 1 144. tVilld. v. 3. 1638. FL Br. 845. 

 E7igl.Bot.v.\.t.38. Hook. Scot. 235. Fl. Dan. t. 281. Besl. 

 Hart. Eyst. cBstiv. ord. W. t.4.f. 2. 



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

 295. /. Camer. Epit. 682. f. Ger. Em. 713. f. Lob. Ic. 534./. 

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



Carduus n. 163. Hall, Hist. v.\.7]. 



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. July, August. 



Root rather woody. Herb rigid, smooth and shmmg. 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 (5 all undivided j 

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

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

 crimson. CaL somewhat coloured ; the edges of its scales downy. 



