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Stem with at least one pair of opposite leaves. 
Flower-head small, cubical, greenish, without any- 
bracts at its base. | 
Adox'a Moschatellina. Moschatel/ 
Heads with several bracts at their base. 
Heads purplish, many flowered. 
c Heads with stiff spiny or bristly points projecting. 
among the flowers. 
L Dip'sacus. TZeaz/e. 
| Heads without any projecting bristles among the 
flowers. 
Scabio’sa. Scadbiors. 
Flowers yellow, or if purple, only 5 or 6 in each 
head. 
COMPOS IT 2. 
eS Pe hee 
Lewes not opposite. 
Stamens or ovaries crowded on solid heads, without 
any calyx or corolla. | 
Sparga’‘nium. Bur-reed. 
Flowers with calyx or corolla, or both. 
= regular, with 5 quite separate and dice 
petals. 
UMBELLIFERAE.” 
Flowers with the segments united, at least at their 
base. 
Flowers in stalked, roundish or oblong heads 
which have no bracts close ) 
below them. ROSACEA.” 
Several bracts below or around the heads. 
Corolla regular, with 5 narrow segments united 
( only at the very base. 
Leaves not stalked; flower-heads almost 
( hemispherical. j 
L Jasione montana. Sheep’s-dit. 
Lower leaves on long stalks ; heads rounded 
or elongated. ; 
Phyteu'ma. 
J s) 
~Corolla divided half-way down or less, or me) tat 
irregular, or minute 
and thread-like. COMPOS ITA. 
