530 HISTOIRE DES PLANTES. 
GENERA 
I. DIPSACEÆX. 
1. pbipsacas T. — Flores hermaphroditi irregulares; receptaculo 
bursiformi germen intus adnatum fovente perianthiumque ori inser- 
tum gerente. Calyx (?) cyathiformis v. cupularis, subinteger, ciliatus 
v. sæpius 4-dentatus lobatusve. Corollæ irregularis tubus rectus 
v. leviter incurvus; limbi obliqui v. sub-2-labii lobis 4, v. rarius 5 
(posticis 2), inæqualibus, imbricatis. Stamina 4 (postico deficiente), 
v. rarissime 5; filamentis corollæ insertis, nonnihil inæqualibus; 
antheris introrsis, versatilibus, exsertis, 2-rimosis. Germen inferum, 
1-loculare; stylo gracili, apice stigmatoso simplici v. inæquali-2-lobo. 
Ovulum in loculo 1, descendens, anatropum ; micropyle introrsum 
supera. Fructus siccus, indehiscens, calyce sæpius coronatus, longi- 
tudinaliter 8-costatus. Semen descendens anatropum ; albumine car- 
nos; embryonis axilis albumine brevioris cotyledonibus ovato-oblon- 
gis ; radiculà supera. — Herbæ perennes v. biennes, pilosæ v. sæplus 
hispidæ v. aculeatæ; foliis oppositis, nune basi in saccum amplexi- 
caulem connatis, dentatis v. pinnatifidis ; lobis inæqualibus; terminali 
sæpe majore ; for buei in capitula ovoidea v. raro subglobosa dispo- 
sitis, bracteatis; bracteis sæpius acutis v. spinescentibus, erectis v. 
r'ECUTVIS ; inferioribus maJoribus; cæteris brevioribus tenuioribusque, 
1-foris ; :floribus singulis involucello germen deinque fructum vestiente, 
48-costut superneque in limbum concavum dentatum, lobatum lobu- 
latumve dilatato, cinctis. (Europa, Asia oce. et media, Africa bor. el 
bor.-or.) — Vid. p. 519. 
2. Seabiosa T.! — Flores (fere Dipsaci) irregulares; calyce 
9-% -lobato v. dentato, persistente; lobis muticis v. sæpius In setas 
1. Inst, 463, t. 263, 264. — L., Gen., n. 115. 701: re V, 717. — Fe . Dipsac., 
— ADANS., pe. ee pl, M, 451. — J., Gen, 45,1 2.—DC., Pro V, 650.— SpacH, Suit. 
194. — Lau, t 57. — Porn., Dict, VL à Buffon, 4 a, — es. es n. 1. 2105 ne 
