" SYNGENESIA MONOGAMlA. 



M O N O G A M I A- 



JASIONE. Gen. pi. 1005. 



Cal.. communis 10-phyllus. Cor. 5-pe(;ala, regularis. 

 Caps, infera, bilocularis. 



JASIONE. Sp. pL 1317. {Ger. emac. 723. /. 12* 

 Moris, hiji. f. 5. /. 5./. 4B. ?et. herb. t. SS- f- 

 1. Column, ecphres. p. 226. /. 227. Lees. Pruff. 

 t, 73. hon.) 

 Hairy Sheep's Scabious. Scabious Rampion. Jnglis. 

 In dry hilly pallures, as at Cbatelherault., by Ha- 

 milto/fy and at Brodic-Cajile^ in the Ifle of 

 Arran., &c. O.VII. 

 The ilalk is about a foot high, ered and branch'd. 

 The leaves are numerous, growing without or- 

 der, ellipt cal, roughly hairy, waved on the 

 edges, fometimes flightly lerrated, but oftner 

 intire. Tiie branches are deftitute of leaves a 

 good way downwards, and are terminated with 

 nearly hemifp<p-ical heads of blue flowers^ 

 which are lubcendtd by a common r^/yx, con- 

 fifling of about ten oval-lanceolate leaves. Each 

 Horet has alfo its own proper quinquefid calyx^ 

 fupported by a peduncle. The floret itfclf is 

 pentapetalous, the petals linear, acute, and con- 

 nedtd together at their bafe. The c.ipfule is 

 roundifn and angular, crowned with the calyx^ 

 and has two cr iliree c^ils, containing many 



