SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA ^QUALIS. ^47 



conveying the feeds from place to place in their 

 wool. 



SERRATULA. Gen. pL 924. 

 Cal fubcylindricus, imbricatus, muticus. 



tin5lorla i. SERRATULA foliis lyrato-pinnatifidis i pinna 

 terminali maxima, flofculis conformibus. Sp, pL 

 1 144. (Ger. em. 713./. 2. Pet. herb. /. 22./. 5, 6. 

 Oed. Dan. /. 281.) 



Saw-wort. Anglis. 



In woods and wet paftures, but not common. %. 

 VII. VJII. 



The ftalk is (liff, angular, branch'd and a yard high : 

 the leaves are firm, fmooth and finely ferrated on 

 the edges : the lower leaves are fometimes ova) 

 and intire, fometimes pinnatifid at the bafe only ; 

 at other times they, together with thofe on the 

 ilalk, are all pinnatifid throughout, with oval 

 \^x\ctQ\zx.^ pnnuU : the flowers are purple, and 

 grow in a kind of cluftered umbel at the top of 

 the ftalk : the calyces are nearly cylindrical, the 

 fcales ered, acutely oval, clofely compared, and 

 and a little wooly on the edges : the receptacle 

 has rigid hairs : the feeds are crown'd with a fefUle 

 fhining, fim>ple down, of a golden fufcous color. 



It dyes cloth of an exceeding fine yellow color, pre- 

 ferable to the LuTEpLA or Genista; and the 

 color (lands well when fix'd with alum. 



Cattle are obferv'd to leave this plant untouch'd. 



S. calycibus 



