BIPSACAGEM. 



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to radiating hairs. Corolla irregular ; ' lobes 4, 5, more or leas 

 unequal, imbricate. Stamens 4, or rarely 2, fertile.'' Germen and 

 ovule of Dipsacus ; style slender, terminal or oblique or lateral at 

 stigmatose apex. Fruit dry, crowned with calyx and enclosed by or 

 adnate to 2-8-ribbed involucel. Seed &c. of Dipsacus. — Herbs annual, 

 perennial or shrubby at base, pubescent, sericeous or pilose, rarely 

 aculeolate or glabrous ; leaves entire, dentate or lobed ; capitules 

 terminal, pedunculate or more rarely in sessile dichotomies ; flowers ' 

 each clothed with its own persistent involucel, sulcate or foveolate, 

 equally or unequally dentate or denticulate; involucre of capitule oo- 

 bracteate ; bracts 2-oo -seriate ; the exterior either herbaceous, free or 

 connate at base (Euscabiosa *), or paleaceous, rigid or scarcely herba- 

 ceous, obtuse or setaceo-acuminate ( Gephalaria ^) ; the interior either 

 subsimilar to exterior {Oephalaria) , or smaller, shorter or 0.° {Europe, 

 west, and temp. Asia, north, north-east, and south, Africa.'') 



3. MorinaT.* — Flowers irregular ; lobes of herbaceous, sometimes 

 persistent, 2-labiate calyx entire or 2-lobulate. Tube of corolla slender 

 sometimes very elongate; lobes of oblique or 2-labiate limb 5, unequal. 



ex ConLT. ZHpsae. 28. — Enautia L. Gen. n. 116. 

 — CorLT. he. eit. 40, 1. 1, fig. 10-13.— DO. Frodr. 

 iv. 650. — Kndi,. Gen. n. 2193. — Asterocephalua 

 Labaso. Hot. Gen. et Sp. 8. — Pterocephalm 

 MasNOH. Jtf«<A. 491. — Lagasc. Ice eit. 9. — Coult. 

 he. at. 43, 1. 1, fig. 14-17.— Endl. (?en.n. 2194. 

 —Columbaria Ghat, Arr. ii. iTG.—Fi/cnoeomon 

 iiiNK et Hfmsg. Fl. Portug. ii. 93, t. 88.— %»•- 

 tostemma Koch (ex Spach, loc.eit. 321). — Galli- 

 etemma BoiSB. Fl. Or. iii. 146. 



1 In the interior flowers generally less irre- 

 gular. 



' Pollen varioas, according to H. Mohl, ovoid 

 [Oolumbaria) or spherical and minutely aculeate 

 (Knautia), sometimes (Asteroeephalm) rather flat, 

 obtusely 3-gonal ; angles truncate papillose. 

 (H. Mohl, Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 2, iii. 316.) 



' White, ochreous, pink, lilac, azure or dark 

 purple. 



* Seabiosu (B. H.). 



= ScHKAD. Ind. Sem. Br^t. Goett. (1814).— 

 CouLT. Dipsae. 36, t. 1, fig. 5-9.- DO. Frodr. iv. 

 647.— BsuL. Gen. n. 2192.— B. H. Gen. ii. 159, 

 n. 4. — Lepieephalus Lagasc. loe. eit. 7. — Suceisa 

 Wallk. he. eit. 46 (not Ubay) . 



' Emcttbioaa. 



' Spec, ahout 100. jAca.Fl.Austr. t. 302, 439; 



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Sort. Vindob. t. 111.— Sibth. Fl. Grmc. t. 103- 

 114. — Eeichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 674 {Pteroeepha- 

 Im), 676-683, 684 {Aiterocephalm), 697-703 

 (Suceisa) ; leonogr. t. 121, 314, 315 (Suceisa), 273, 

 326; loon.Exot. t. 16, 17.— Webb,^,^^!!. Oanar. 

 t. 80, 81.— Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 41 

 (Gephalaria), 43. — Tohihatch. As. Min. t. 26 

 (Gephalaria), 27 (Pteroeephalus). — Boise,. Fl'. Or. 

 iii. 117 (Gephalaria), 126 (Enautia), 130, 147 

 (Pteroeephalus). — Willk. et Lang. Prodr. Fl. 

 Sisp. ii. 13 (Gephalaria), 14 (JCnautia, Tricera), 

 16 (Pteroeephalus), 17. — Gb. et Godb. Fl.de Fr. 

 ii. 69 (Gephalaria, part), 71 (Knautia), 75.— Bot. 

 Mag. t. 247, 886.— Walp. Bep. ii. 532 (Gephala- 

 ria), 533 (Knautia), 534 [Pteroeephalus); vi. 84 

 (Gephalaria), 85 (Enautia, Pteroeephalus), 86 ; 

 Aim. ii. 803 (Gephalaria, Enautia), 804 (Ptero- 

 eephalus), 805; V. 140 (Gephalaria), 141, 142 

 (Suceisa). 



» Inst. Cor.' 48, t. 480.— L. Gen. n. 41.— J. 

 Gen. 194. — Lamk. Diet. iv. 313.— Cottlt. Dipsae. 

 33, t. 1, fig. 1.— DC. Prodr. iv. 644.— Spach, 

 Suit, a Buffon, x. 314.— Endl. Gen. n. 2190.— 

 H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 243.— B. H. Gen. ii. 

 168, n. 2. — Biolotheea Vaill. Mim. Acad. Par.. 

 (1722) 184. — Asaphes Spkeng. Syat. Gur. Post. 

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