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gular-subulate straight point ciliated with long white hairs, as long 

 as the flowers. 



In damp places, by the sides of roads and ditches ; partial to 

 chalk and limestone districts, but not confined to them, and pretty 

 generally though rather sparingly distributed over England, as 

 far North as the counties of York, Chester, Mint, and Denbigh ; 

 absent from several of the western counties. 



England. Biennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Root-leaves verv large, often a foot or more long. Flowering stem 

 2 to 4 feet high, rather slender, much branched, with the prickles 

 much smaller than in the preceding species, and terminating in 

 Ions? pellucid bristles, most numerous towards the base of the stem, 

 where the prickle-like base is nearly obsolete. Stem-leaves more 

 narrowed at the base than the root-leaves, sometimes simple, but 

 more commonly, especially the upper ones, with a pair of segments 

 at the base of the lamina and united with it. Flower-heads f to 1 

 inch in diameter. Involucel hairy, at length glabrous, with the 

 limb very small, with numerous minute teeth. Calyx much 

 contracted under the limb, which is 4-cornered, hairy, and ciliated. 

 Corolla funnelshaped-salvershaped, white, the limb 4-partite, 

 the lobes nearly equal. Stamens much exserted. Fruit oblong 

 ovoid, inclosed in the 4-sided 8-ribbed involucel, and surmounted 

 by the deciduous very hairy calyx-limb. Plant green, sparingly 

 hairy. 



Small Teasel. 



GENUS II— S C A B I O S A. linn. 



Pericline of numerous foliaceous phyllaries. Clinanth clothed 

 with hairs or small soft scales not terminating in spines. In- 

 volucel sessile or shortly stipitate. Calyx -limb a cupshaped 

 border with 4, 5, or more teeth or bristles. Corolla salver-shaped, 

 often irregular and radiant, 4- or 5-lobed. Fruit crowned by the 

 calyx-limb, which has the bristles accrescent. 



Soft herbs or under-shrubs without prickles, with flowers in 

 globose or flattened heads or anthodes, lilac, purple, red, yellow, 

 or ochreous. 



The name of this genus is said by some authors to come from the Latin word 

 scabies, an eruptive disease which certain species were supposed to cure. Dr. Prior 

 tells us that it is derived from scabiosa, scurvy, from scabies, scurf, in allusion to the 

 scaly pappna of its seeds, which, on the doctrine of signatures, led to its use in leprous 

 diseases, and its being regarded as a specific remedy for all such as were "raiidig" or 

 " grindig," itchy or mangy. 



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