300 THE STORY OF PLANT LIFE 



two. The calyx is gamosepalous, superior, pappus- 

 like, with a membranous involucel, and is attached 

 to the ovary, cup-shaped, entire, lobed, or fringed 

 with hairs, with rigid bracts. The corolla is gamo- 

 petalous, tubular, funnel-shaped, or cylindric, often 

 curved, epigynous, with four to five lobes, unequal, 

 blunt, overlapping in bud, the larger or anterior lobes 

 overlapping. The stamens are epipetalous, four or 

 five inserted on the corolla-tube. The filaments are 

 slender, sometimes unequal, bent inwards in bud, the 

 anthers projecting, not united and versatile. The 

 pistil is syncarpous. The ovary is one-celled. The 

 style is slender, the stigma simple. The fruit is a 

 dry, one-seeded achene, crowned by the pappus-like 

 calyx. The seeds possess endosperm. 



The anthers usually open first. 



The fruit enclosed in the epicalyx is dispersed by 

 the wind. 



The group includes the Fuller's Teasel and some 

 ornamental garden plants. 



Field Scabious {Scabiosa arvmsis). 



One of our loveliest wild flowers, Field Scabious 

 is generally distributed in Great Britain up to the 

 Northern Isles, and is found in Ireland and the 

 Channel Islands. 



As the first vernacular and second Latin name 

 imply it is found in fields. The second English and 

 first Latin name refer to a supposed remedy the 



