194 TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Scablosa. 



fringed, as is also the crown of the seed. Cor. unequally 5 -cleft. 

 A useless weed, but not troublesome to the farmer. 



66. SC A BIOS A. Scabious. 



Linn. Gen. 48. Juss. 194. Fl. Br. 1/0. Toiirn. t. 263, 264. Lam. ' 

 t.57. Gartn.t.Se. 



Nat. Orel, same as n. 65. 



Common Cat. many-flowered, of mmierous spreading leaves, 

 surrounding the receptacle in several rows, and attached 

 to it; the innermost gradually smaller. Proper CaL 

 double, superior, permanent; the outer shortest, mem- 

 branous, plaited, ribbed ; inner in 5, or more, deep, awl- 

 shaped, slender, sometimes feathery, segments. Cor. of 

 each flower monopetalous, tubular, dilated upwards ; limb 

 in 4 or 5, equal or unequal, segments. Filam. 4, spread- 

 ing, lax, from the mouth of the cor. longer than its limb. 

 Antli. oblong, incumbent. Germ, inferior. Style thread- 

 shaped, about as long as the corolla. Stigma obtuse, cloven. 

 Seed naked, solitary, crowned with the double, enlarged 

 or expanded, calyx. Common receptacle convex, either 

 chaffy, bristly, or naked. 



A numerous, chiefly Europaean, genus, generally perennial, 

 in a few instances shrubby. Stem round, leafy. Leaves 

 opposite, mostly hairy; generally compound, or divided. 

 Fl. solitary, terminal, stalked, purplish, or yellowish white. 

 The outermost corollas beinff often largest, render the 

 whole aggregate ^otcer radiant in several species. The 

 corolla being in some 4-cleft, in others 5-cleft, divides the 

 whole into two great sections. 



1. S. succisa. Devil's-bit Scabious. 



Corolla in four equal segments. Heads nearly globular. 

 Stem-leaves distantly toothed. 



S. succisa. Linn.Sp. PI. 142. Willd. v. I. 548. Fl.Br.l70. Engl. 



Bot. V. 13. t. 878. Curt. Lond. fasc. 3. t. 10. Hook. Scot. 49. 



Fl: Dan. t. 279. 

 S. radice succisa, flore globoso. Rail Syn. 191. 

 Succisa. Fuchs. Hist. 715. f. 

 S. sive Morsus diaboli. Matth. VaJgr. v. 1. 571./. Camer. Epit. 



397./. 

 Morsus diaboli. Ger. Em. 726. f. 



In grassy, rather moist, pastures. 



Perennial. .August — October. 



Root blackish, abrupt at the lower end. Stem a foot high, or more. 



