PLex.cal. 40. DIPSACEtE. 247. Scabiosa. 477 



V. 247. SCABIOSA. Brunsfel. Scabious. 



Pericline-scaleS lanceolate, imbricate, in many series; 

 inner linear; cLlnanthus convex, hairy ; chaffs 0; outer calyx 

 free, 4-cut; inner many-cut, lobes bristlelike, unequal; co- 

 rolla 4 or 5-cut; stamens 4 or 5, exserted; akenium 1-seeded, 

 4-sided, free, crowned with the inner calyx. 



Scahiosa arvensis. Field scabious. 



Stem branched, hispid ; leaves pinnatifid-cut ; corolla 

 4-cut, radiating. 



Seabiofa major coir.munior folio laciniato. Rail Syn. 191, 1. 

 Scabiosa major vulgaris, Ger.em. 719, 1„ 

 Scabiosa vulgaris pratensis, Park. 484, 

 Scabiosa arvensis, Lin. S. P. 143. 



Fields and pastures ; perennial ; July. 

 Stem S feet high, hairy, hairs deflexed; corolla light 

 purple or white. 



i3. integrifol'ia? Leaves not cut. 



y. (Bqualis, Inner flowers, same length and shape as 

 the outer. 



Fam.VI. 4 L VALERIA NEiE.De Candolle. Dipsace^ 



arum pars, Jussieu. 

 Calyx adherent to the ovary, 5-cut, upright or pappose; 

 pappus revoiute ; corolla tubular, on the tip of the ovary, 

 5-loj3ed, often unequal ; stamens 1 to 3, in the tube of the 

 corolla; style 1 ; stigmata 1 to 3; carcerule 1 to S-celled; 

 cells 1-seeded, often abortive ; seeds inverse; perisperm 0; 

 corculum straight j radicle above. — Stem herbaceous ; 

 leaves opposite; flowers corymbose or panicled. 



Calyx pappose; pappus featherlike; 

 corolla spurless Valeriana. 248. 



Calyx pappose ; pappus fealherlike ; 

 corolla spurred Centranthus. 249. 



Calyx toothed, persisting; 

 corolla spurless Valekianella, 250, 



L 248. VALERIANA, Pliny. Falerian. 



Calyx-limb at first revoiute, afterwardis evolved into a 

 featheriike pappus ; corolla tubular, not spurred, rather 

 unequal: stamens 3; carcerule I'SQededc 



