DIPSACACE2E, 



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to radiating hairs. Corolla irregular ; ' lobes 4, 5, more or less 

 unequal, imbricate. Stamens 4, or rarely 2, fertile.^ Germen and 

 ovule of Dipsacus ; style slender, terminal or oblique -or lateral at 

 stigmatose apex. Fruit dry, crowned with calyx and enclosed by or 

 adnate to 2-8-ribbed involucel. Seed &;c. of Dipsacus, — Herbs annual, 

 perennial or shrubby at base, pubescent, sericeous or pilose, rarely 

 aculeolate or glabrous ; leaves entire, dentate or lobed ; capitules 

 terminal, pedunculate or more rarely in sessile dichotomies ; flowers ' 

 each clothed with its own persistent involucel, sulcate or foveolate, 

 equally or unequally dentate or denticulate ; involucre of capitule oo- 

 bracteate ; bracts 2~oo -seriate ; the exterior either herbaceous, free or 

 connate at base {Euscahiosa ^), or paleaceous, rigid or scarcely herba- 

 ceous, obtuse or setaceo-acuminate ( Cephalaria ^) ; the interior either 

 subsimilar to exterior (Cephalaria), or smaller, shorter or 0.^ {Europe, 

 ivest, and temp. Asia, north, north-east, and south, Africa,'^) 



3. Morina T.^ — Flowers irregular ; lobes of herbaceous, sometimes 

 persistent, 2-labiate calyx entire or 2-lobulate. Tube of corolla slender 

 sometimes very elongate; lobes of oblique or 2-labiate limb 5, unequal, 



ex CouLT. Bipsac. 28. — Knautid L. Gen. n. 116. 

 — CouLT. loc. cit. 40, t. 1, fig. 10-13.— DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 650. — Endl. Gen. n. 2193. — Asteroc'ephalus 

 Lagasc. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 8. — Pterocephalus 

 MoixcH. Meth. 491. — Lagasc. Ice. cit. 9. — Coult. 

 loc. cit. 43, 1. 1, fig. 14-17.— Endl. Gen.n. 2194. 

 — Columbaria Gray, Arr. ii. 476. — Fi/cnocomon 

 Link et Hfmsg. Fl. Fortug. ii. 93, t. 88.— Cyr- 

 tostemma Koch (ex Spach, loc. cit. 321). — CalU' 

 stemma Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. 146. 



^ In the interior flowers generally less irre- 

 gular. 



2 Pollen various, according to H. Mohl, ovoid 

 [Columbaria) or spherical and minutely aculeate 

 [Knatitia), sometimes (Asterocejjhalua) rather flat, 

 obtusely 3-gonal ; angles truncate papillose. 

 (H. MoHL, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, iii. 315.) 



^ White, ochreous, pink, lilac, azure or dark 

 purple. 



4 Scabiosa^B.B..). 



» Schrad. Ltd. Sent. Hort. Goeft. (1814).— 

 CouLT. Dipaac. 36, t. 1, fig. 5-9.— DC. Frodr. iv. 

 647.— Enbl. Gen. n. 2192.— B. H. Gen. ii. 159, 

 n. 4. — Lepicephalus Lagasc. he. cit. 7. — Succisa 

 Wallr. loc. cit. 46 (not Gray). 



^ Euscabiosa. 



7 Spec, ahout 100. Jacq. Fl. Austr. t. 302, 439; 



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Hort. Vindob. t. 111.— Sibth. Fl. Grccc. t. 103- 

 114. — Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 674 {Pterocepha- 

 lus), 676-683, 684 (Asterocep/ialus), 697-703 

 (Succisa) ; Iconogr. t. 121, 314, 315 {Succisa), 273, 

 326 ; Fcon. Fxot. t. 16, 17.— Webb,P/^?/^. Canar. 

 t. 80, 81.— Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 41 

 {Cephalaria)^ 43. — Tchihatch. As. Min. t. 26 

 (Cephalaria), 27 {Pterocephalus). — Boiss. Fl. Or. 

 iii. 117 {Cephalaria), 126 (Enautia), 130, 147 

 (Pterocephalus). — Willk. et Lang. Prddr. Fl. 

 Hisp. ii. 13 {Cephalaria), 14 (Knautia, Tricera)^ 

 16 {Pterocephalus), 17. — Gr. et Godr. Fl.de Fr. 

 ii. 69 {Cephalaria, part), 71 (Knautia), 75.— Pot. 

 Mag. t. 247, 886.— Walp. Rep. ii. 532 {Cephala- 

 ria), 533 {Knautia), 534 {Pterocephalus); vi. 84 

 (Cephalaria), 85 (Knautia, Pterocephalus), 86 ; 

 Ann. ii. 803 {Cephalaria, Knautia), 804 {Ptero- 

 cephalus), 805; V. 140 (Cephalaria), 141, 142 

 (Succisa). 



8 Inst. Cor. 48, t. 480.— L. Gen. n. 41.— J. 

 Gen. 194. — Lamk. Pict. iv. 313. — Coult. Dipsac. 

 33, t. 1, fig. 1.— DC. Prodr. iv. 644.— Spach, 

 Suit. aBuffon, x. 314.— Endl. Gen. n. 2190.— 

 H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 243.— B. H. Gen. ii. 

 158, n. 2. — Dioiotheca Vaill. Mem. Acad. Par. 

 (1722) l^^.—Asaphes Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 

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