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pressed. Elorets a little longer than the phyllaries in the female 

 flowers, equalling them in the male. 



Yar. a, genuma. 



S. tinctoria, Boreau, Fl. da Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. II. p. 304. 



Anthodes stalked, arranged in a lax corymb. 



Var. /3, monticola. 



S. monticola, Boreau, 1. c, p. 364. 



Anthodes subsessile, in a head-like corymb, fewer and larger 

 than in var. a. 



In woods and bushy places and among brakes. Rather common 

 in England, rare in Scotland, but plentiful in the woods about 

 Tumlin Bridge, Kirkcudbright. Var. 3, rocks on the coast of 

 Cornwall. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Autumn. 



Stem slender, wiry, 1 to 3 feet high, slightly branched in the 

 upper half; the uppermost branches coryml)osely disposed. Leaves 

 very variable, from so deeply pinnatifid as to be almost pinnate 

 to entire and merely bristly-serrulate at the margin ; the upper 

 leaves generally sub-lyrate, with the terminal segment much larger 

 than the others. Pericline of the sub-perfect flowers ^ to |- inch 

 long, of the female rather larger and broader ; outer phyllaries woolly 

 at the margin, the inner ones merely rough, all generally purplish 

 on the exposed portion. Elorets reddish-purple ; corolla of the 

 sub-perfect flowers swollen in the middle. Antbers of the sub- 

 perfect flowers dark -blue, those of the female plant white and 

 abortive. Styles of the sub-perfect florets with the branches con- 

 tiguous ; of the female longer with the branches diverging. Achenes 

 fawn-colour, slightly rough with very faint elevated lines. Pappus 

 of yellowish- white hairs with their secondary hairs invisible to the 

 naked eye. Plant dark-green, slightly shining, sub-glabrous or with 

 a few scattered hairs on the leaves and slightly rough. 



Var. /3 scarcely deserves the name of a variety, though made a 

 species by Professor Boreau ; I have seen it only in Mr. li. C. Wat- 

 son's herbarium : it is represented in E. B. No. 38. 



Coiiuuou Saw-icort. 



French, Sarretie des Teinturiers. German, Farber Scharte. 



Tribe IV.— CENTAURE.E. 



Elorets all tubular, each one not surrounded by an involucel, 

 those of the disk perfect ; the exterior ones generally neuter and 



