LXV. DIPS AC A CE^. 



I. TEAZEL SEKIES. 



The flowers of the Teazels ' (fig. 410-414) are hermaphrodite and 

 a httle irregular. The receptacle is in the form of a sac with a 



Dipsacm fullomim. 



Fig. 411. Flower {{). 



Fio:. 410. Inflorescence. 



Fig. 412. Long. sect, 

 of flower. 



constricted mouth and is surrounded by an involucel quite free or 

 united with a variable extent of its surface, in a single piece, entire 

 or denticulate at the margin, often divided into four lobes of little 

 depth, of which two are lateral, one anterior and one posterior. 



1 Dipsacus T. Inst. 466, t. 265.— L. Gen. n. 

 114.— J. Gen. 194.— G^rtn. Fruct. ii. 39, t. 86. 

 — Lamk. Diet. i. 622 ; Suppl. ii. 91 ; III. t. 56. 

 — CouLT. Mem. Dipsac. 21, fig. 2-4.— DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 645.— TrRP. Diet. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 95.— Endl. 

 Gen. n. 2191.— Payer, Organog. 629, t. 131.— 

 H. Bx. Payer Fam. Nat.2U.—'Q. H. Gen.ii. 158, 

 n. 3. — Succisa Gray, Arr. Brit. PL ii. 476 (not 

 Wallr.). — KnaiUia IL. Gen. n. 116. — Coult. 



Dipsac. 28.— DC. Prodr. iv. 650. — Exdl. Gen. n. 

 2193. — Pterocephalus Vaili. Act. Acad. Par. 

 (1722) 184.— MfENCH.M^'M. i^l.—LKG.Nov.Gen. 

 9.— Coult. Dipsac. 31, t. 1, fig. 14-17.— DC. 

 Prodr. iv. 652.— Endl. Gen.n. 2l9i.— Columba- 

 ria Gray, loc. cit. ii. 476. — Asterocephalus Lag. 

 he. cit. 8. — Trichera Schrad. Cat. Sem. Hort. 

 Gcett (1814). — Coult. Dipsae. 28. — Pgcnccomon 

 Link et PIoffmg. Fl. Puriug. ii. 93, t. 88. 



