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3. Knautia (Field Scabious). — Perennial herbs, nearly related 

 to Scabiosa ; but distinguished by the heniispherical huhy com inon 

 recepliide : the 4-angled mvolucel ; and the 8 — 16 deciduous 

 bristles of the calyx. (Named in honour of (_'hristian Knaut, a 

 Saxon botanist.) 



1. K. arvciisis (h'ield Scabious). — A tall, bristly plant, 2 — 3 feet 

 high, not much branched ; radical lem^es simple ; cauline ones 

 jMnnatifid ; heads large, convex ; flowers handsome, lilac, with 



K'NAUT7A AT^Vfif; 



4dobed corollas, the inner ones nearly symmetrical, the outer 

 larger and bilabiate. — Cornfields and Nfraysides ; conniion. — ¥1. 

 July — September. Perennial. 



C)RD. XLI. CoMP(')SIT,l',. — TUE OOMPOSITE F.\MILY 



This is by far the largest of all the Natural Orders, containing 

 as it does nearly 10,000 species, 111 800 genera, or about one lenth 

 of all known Flowering Plants. These figures serve to illustrate 



