CJ;5() 7. ASTKHOVEPIIALUS CANESCKXS. [ci.. IV. 



ty, on account of the inaccuracy of synonynies, how far it ex- 

 tends towards the south, av.d whetlier it passes heyond tlie 

 4i3<^ \. Lat. 



Stjno-nipncs and Figures. 



Scabiosa nunor, 1. 3. ix. xi. Tahcrn. 443. Scab, media, 



Gerard euutc. 7~0. 

 Sc. capitulo <^loboso minor, Moris, sect. 6. t. 14. Bujchcwm 



Hal. 295. Tourncf. In.st. 4G5. Hist, des Plantcs aiix 



Environs de Par'is^ p. 141, (probe jam distinxit spcciem). 



DuUbard Flor. Par'iss. 45. 

 Asterocephalus tbhis ad lerrani ovahbus, Haller G'ott. 352. 

 Scabiosa descripta in Wicgel Flor. Pomer. p. 25. n. 91. C. F. 



ejus Obs. Dot p. 23. 

 Sc. asterocephala, Tliv'ul. Flor. Par'iss. p. 72. (var Hore 



albo). 

 Sc. suaveolens, Desfont. Cat. Hort. Par'iss. ed. 2. p. 131. 



De Cand. Fl. Fran^. 4. p. 229. 

 Sc. canescens, Kit. Plant. Hung. 1. p. 53. t. 53. Pohl. Bo- 

 hem. 1. p. 133. Pcrs. Syn. 1. p. 22. W'dld. Enum. 1. 



p. 14(). Baumgart. Trans. Sylv, 1. 77. Wallroth. Ann. 



Bot. p. 143. R6m et SchuU. 1. p. m. JD'ierbach, Flor. 



He'idelb. 1. 39 

 Sc. Columbaria, «,. y. Poir ene. 6. 711- var. ,3. Gmel. Bad. 



1. p. 323. var. s. Marsch. Bieb. taur. cauc. 1. 96. 



.^ Sc. tomentosa Sibth. Smith, Prod. Fl. Gra-c. 1. 85. 



On the Family of the Scahiosa. 



The Scabiosge, otherwise called Aggregatge, evidently con- 

 stitute a peculiar family, which are neai'ly related to the 

 Syngenesistae, by their compound flowers, by their common 

 calyx, by the chaffy leaves on their receptacle, by their mo- 

 nopetalous flowers, to the tube of which the filaments are fix- 

 ed, — by their fruit being iiiferior, forming achenia?, or cary- 

 opses, and carrying pappi. But they are distinguished by 

 the free situation of the anthers, by the number of the fila- 

 ments, which are always but four, by the simplicity of the 

 stigma, and by the direction of the radicle of the embryon 



