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XIV. 
SCAB IOUS. 
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HE flower is compofed of numerous flofcules, arranged in a common cup. This is formed of 
oblong fcales in feveral feries, 
ments; and has befide the common cup two, an outer and inner, peculiar to itfelf, 
oval, and pointed. 
Each flofcule is tubular, and divided at the top into five feg- 
The feeds are 
Linnzus feparates this from the reft of the campofite-flowered plants, by many claffes, placing ir 
among the tefrandria, the buttons not coalefcing. 
DIVISION I, 
1, Common Scabious. 
Scabiofa vulgaris. 
The root is compofed of many thick fibres, 
united to a common head. 
The leaves that rife firft are oblong, broad, 
and of a pale green. 
The ftalk is two feet high, hairy, upright, 
not much branched, and of a pale green. The 
leaves on this are divided deeply on the edges. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks, and 
are large and blue. 
It is common in corn-fields, and flowers in 
June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Scabiofa pratenfis birfuta que 
officinarum. nee 
Tt is excellent againft diforders of the breaft 
given in infufion. ; 
2. The Leffer Scabious, 
Scabiofa minor. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres, 
DIVISION 
Mufk-Scabious. 
Scabiofa flore fuave olente. 
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The root is formed of many fibres, connected 
to a fmall head. 
The ftalk is upright, of a pale green, round, 
very much branched, and a yard high. 
Geo Ee: N Aas 
BRITISH 
S°P“E-C'LE'S, 
The ftalk is round, upright, flender, and twa 
feet high, 
The leaves are all very deeply divided into feg- 
ments, and are of a faint green. 
The flowers are large, and naturally blue; but 
they are fometimes redith or white, 
It is common in dry paftures, and flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Scabio/a capitulo globofo 
minor. 
3. Scabious, with bitten roots, 
Scabiofa radice fuccifa, 
The root is thick, fhort, and abruptly broken 
off, and has a multitude of thick fibres. 
The leaves that firft rife from it are oblong, of 
a deep green, not indented at the edges, 
fmooth. 
The ftalks are flender, upright, and a foot 
and half high. 
The flowers are of a deep blue. 
if is common in meadows, and flowers in Au- 
u 
and 
C. Bauhine calls it Scabiofa fuccifa glabra et hir- 
futa. Our people, Blue devil?s-bit, 
FOREIGN SPECIES, 
The leaves are divided into very fine fegments. 
The flowers are placed at the tops of the’ 
branches, and are of a deep purple, almoft black ; 
and they have a fine mufky fmell. 
Tt is a native of Spain, and’ flowers in Au- 
guft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Scabio/a mofchata. 
XV. 
TEAS ELL; 
Dati P 8 A Ceo“ 
d es flower is compofed of numerous flofcules, 
This is compofed of a few narrow and fharp 
vided at the rim into four fezments. 
‘pointed leaves, 
arranged in an oval head, within a common cup. 
Each flofcule is tubular, and di- 
Linnzus places this with the former among the setrandria, feparating them entirely from the reft 
of the corymbiferous tribe, which ftand among his /yugenefia. 
1. Common Teafell. 
Dipfacus vulgaris. 
‘The root is long, thick, and hasa few large fibres. 
The ftalk is round, whitifh, thick, upright, 
and fix feet high. 
The leaves are long, and moderately broad : 
they ftand in pairs, and unite at the bafe in fuch 
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