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PENTANDRTA. MONOGYNIA. Jasione. 



Xylo'steum.L. Fruit-stalks 2-flowered: berries distinct: leaves very 



entire^ pubescent, 



Ri<v. mon. 120-Fl. dan. 80&-Clus. 58. 1-Loi. ic. 633. 2- 

 Dod. 412. 1-Ger.em. 1294. 1. 



A shrub 6 or 8 feet high. Leaves mostly egg-shaped, in 

 opposite pairs, 3 pairs on each branch; rather soft and cloth-like 

 to the touch. Fruit-stalks opposite, axillary. Moss, yellow; 

 upper lip 4-cleft, lower lip strap-shaped, entire. Filaments 



woolly. 



Upright Honey suckle. 



S. May.* 



JASIO'NE. Common calyx 10-leaved: cup proper 



5-toothed: hloss. 5 petals, regular: anthers 

 united: caps, beneath; 2-celled; many- 

 seeded, opening at the top, crowned by the 

 proper cup. 



monta'na. J. Leaves strap-shaped, very entire. 



Knipb. W-Curt. 245-Fl. dan. 3l9~Col. ecphr. 227-H. **• 



v. 5. 48-/V/. 5. 2-Dod. 122. 2-Lob. obs. 291. 3. h. i- 

 536*. 2~Ger. m.723. 12. 



Stem a foot high, or more ; cloathed with leaves for some- 

 thing more than one third of its height : above naked. Branches 

 several, from amongst the upper leaves, alternate, much shorter 

 and slenderer than the sttm^ Leaves strap, or strap-spear-shaped, 

 sitting, waved at the edge, hairy, pointing upwards, sometimes, 

 though rarely, with here and there a small tooth. Woodward. 

 Fruit-stalks naked. Blossoms blue, or white. 



Hairy Sheeps Scabious. Scabious Sheepsbit. Only in very 

 dry parched situations. Linn. St. — Sandy and barren fallows and 

 pastures. Ray.- — Meadows and heaths. Huds. A. June, Juty* 



Var. 2. dwarf. Whole plant very hairy ; when full grown 

 t but about an inch high. 



Sea coast, Cornwall. 



* This species was admitted into the 1st edition of this work, on the 

 authority of VVallis, p. 149, who mentioned it as having been found under 

 the Roman wall on the west side of Shewing Sheels. No further evi- 

 dence of its being a native appearing, it was omitted in the second edition, 

 but several bushes of it having been found lately in the wood on the S. ' : 

 side of the pool in Edgbaston Park, its admission into the tiora of this islan 

 cannot longgr be disputed. In the north of Europe it seems a coin^ " 

 plant ; Linnaeus informs us it makes excellent garden hedges in a dry 

 soil : that the clear part* between the joints of the shoots are used in Swe- 

 den as tubes fur tobacco pipes, and that the wood being extremely I***' 

 makes teeth for rakes, &c. 



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