290 DIPSACEAE. - Vor. ITI. 
1. Scabiosa arvénsis L. Field Scabious. 
Fig. 4008. 
Scabiosa arvensis L. Sp. Pl. 99. 1753. 
Knautia arvensis T. Coult. Dips. 29. 1823. 
Perennial, pubescent, simple or little branched, 
1°-3° high. Basal and lower leaves petioled, lan- 
seolate, acute or acuminate, entire, lobed, or pin- 
natifid, 3’-8’ long; upper leaves sessile, often 
deeply pinnatifid; heads long-peduncled, depressed- 
globose, 1-13’ broad; flowers lilac purple, about 
6” long; receptacle depressed-hemispheric, not 
scaly, covered with hairs between the flowers; 
achene angled, crowned with the 8 or Io linear- 
subulate calyx-teeth. 
In cultivated fields and waste places, Quebec to 
Massachusetts, Vermont, New York and Pennsyl- 
vania. ‘Adventive from Europe. Other English 
names are blue buttons, blue caps, gypsy- or egyptian- 
rose, pincushion. June—Sept. 
3. SUCCISA (Vaill.) Moench. Meth. 488. 1794. 
Herbs, similar to Scabiosa, with opposite leaves, the flowers in long-peduncled heads, 
subtended by a several-many-leaved involucre. Scales of the receptacle herbaceous or capil- 
lary. Involucels grooved, the margins 4-lobed or 4-toothed. Calyx-limb 5-toothed or 5-awned. 
Corolla oblique, 4-5-lobed. Stamens 4. Achene crowned with the persistent calyx. [From 
the Latin, to bite off, the rootstock in some species being short and blunt.] 
About 4 species, mostly natives of southern Europe. Type species Scabiosa Succisa L. 
1. Succisa australis (Wulf.) Reichenb. Southern Scabious. Fig. 4009. 
Scabiosa australis Wulf. in Roem. Arch. 3: Part 3, 
316. 1803. 
Succisa australis Reichenb. Fl, Germ. Excurs. 196. 
1830. 
Perennial, puberulent or pubescent, at least 
above ; stem slender, branched, 13°-3° high. Basal 
leaves oblanceolate to oblong, mostly obtuse, 4’-12’ Sy 
long, the petiole often as long as the blade or 
longer; stem leaves distant, lanceolate or oblong- 
lanceolate, entire, or toothed, short-petioled, or 
the upper sessile, acute or acuminate; heads of 
pale blue-purple flowers long-peduncled, rather 
less than 1’ in diameter, oblong-ovoid in fruit; 
receptacle scaly, the scales about as long as the 
glabrous, 8-ribbed involucels or longer; calyx 5- 
toothed; achene crowned with 5 calyx-teeth. 
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Fields and meadows. Naturalized from Europe in 
Pennsylvania, central New York and Massachusetts. 
Pincushion-flower. Summer. 
Succisa Succisa (L.) Britton (Succisa pratensis i 
Moench; Scabiosa Succisa L.) with villous 4-angled ' - 
involucels, the calyx-limb 5-awned, has been found in fields at Louisburg, Cape Breton Island. 
Family 41. CUCURBITACEAE B. Juss. Hort. Trian. 1750. 
GourpD FamILy. 
Climbing or trailing, herbaceous vines, usually with tendrils. Leaves alternate, 
petioled, generally palmately lobed or dissected. Flowers solitary or racemose, 
monoecious or dioecious. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, its limb campanulate 
or tubular, usually 5-lobed, the lobes imbricated. Petals usually 5, inserted on 
the limb of the calyx, separate, or united into a gamopetalous corolla. Stamens 
mostly 3 (sometimes 1), 2 of them with 2-celled anthers, the other with a 1-celled 
anther; filaments short, often somewhat monadelphous. Ovary 1-3-celled; style 
