SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA ^QUALIS. 447 

 conveying the feeds from plac« to place in their 

 wooh 



SERRATULA. Gen. pL 924. 

 Cal. fubcylindricus, imbricatus, muticus. 



SERRATULA foliis lyrato-pinnatindls j pinna 

 terminali maxima, flofculis conformibus. Sp. pL 

 1 144. (Ger. em. 713./. 2. Pet. herb. t. ^i. f.^. 6. 

 Oed. Dan. t. 281.) 



Saw-wort. Anglis. 



In woods and wet paftures, but not common. %. 

 VII. VIII. 



The ftalk is iliff, angular, branch'd and a yard hi&h : 

 the leaves are firm, fmooth and finely ferrated on 

 the edges : the lower leaves are fometimes ova) 

 and intire, fometimes pinnatifid at the bafe only- 

 at other times they, together with thofe on the 

 {talk, are all pinnatifid throughout, with oval 

 lanceolate ;)/«««/^ : the flowers are purple, and 

 grow in a kind of cluftered umbel at the top of 

 the ftalk : the calyces are nearly cylindrical, the 

 ■ fcales erecl, acutely oval, clofely compared, and 

 and a little wooly on the edges : the receptacle 

 has rigid hairs : the feeds are crown'd with a feffile 

 Ihining, fimple down, of a golden fufcoiis color. 



It dyes cloth of an exceeding fine yellow color, pre- 

 ferable to the LuTEOLA or Genista-, and the 

 color (lands well when fix'd with alum. 



Cattle are obferv'd ro leave this plant nntouch'd. 



S, calycibus 



