GENERA. 



I. DIPSACE^. 



1. Dipsacus T. — Flowers hermaphrodite irregular; receptacle 

 saclike enclosing adnate germen and bearing perianth inserted in 

 mouth. Calyx (?) cyathiform or cupular, subentire, ciliate or oftener 

 4-dentate or lobed. Tube of irregular corolla straight or slightly 

 incurved ; lobes of oblique or sub-2-labiate limb 4, or more rarely 5 

 (2 posterior), unequal, imbricate. Stamens 4 (posterior wanting), 

 or very rarely 5 ; filaments inserted on corolla, somewhat unequal ; 

 anthers introrse, versatile, exserted, 2-rimose. Germen inferior, 

 1-celled; style slender, simple or unequally 2-lobed at stigmatose" 

 apex. ' Ovule in cell 1, descending, anatropous; micropyle introrsely 

 superior. Fruit dry indehiscent, oftener crowned with calyx, longi- 

 tudinally 8-ribbed. Seed descending anatropous ; albumen fleshy ; 

 embryo axile shorter than albumen; cotyledons ovate-oblong; radicle 

 superior. — Perennial or biennial herbs, pilose or oftener hispid or 

 aculeate ; leaves opposite, sometimes connate at base in an amplexi- 

 caul sac, dentate or pinnatifid ; lobes unequal, the terminal often 

 larger ; flowers in an ovoid or rarely subglobose capitule, bracteate ; 

 bracts oftener acute or spinescent, erect or recurved; the lower larger; 

 the others shorter and thinner, 1-florous ; each flower girt with an 

 involucel clothing the germen then the fruit, 4-8-costate and dilated 

 above to a concave dentate, lobed or lobulate limb. (Europe, west, 

 and mid. Asia, north, and north-east. Africa.) — See p, 519. 



2. Scabiosa T.' — Flowers (nearly of Dipsacus) irregular; calyx 

 5- oo-lobed or dentate, persistent ; lobes pointless or oftener produced 



1 Inst. 463, t. 263, 264.— L. Gen. ii. 115.— Gen. n. 2195.— Patbr, Organog. 629, t. 131.— 



Adans. Fam. des PI. ii. 151. — J. Gen. 194. — H. Bn. Fayer Fam. Nat. 243. — Suceisa Gkay, 



Lamk. III. i.dl.—PoTR.Bict.vi. 701 ; Suppl. v. Ai-r. Brit. PI. ii. 476.— Mcench, Meth. 488.— 



77.— CoxiLT. Mem. Dipsac. 45, t. 2.— DC. Prodr. Coult. Dipsac. 45, t. 2.— Spach, loe. cit. 324. — 



iv., 650.— Spach, Suit, d Buffon, x. 323.— Endl. Trichera Schkad. Cat. Sem. Sort. Gcett. (1814) 



