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CXXI. DIPSACE^. 



Scabious. Fruit (mag.). 



Scabious (Scdftiosa atropurpurea). 

 Capittilum. 



Scabious. 

 Ray flower cut vertically (mag.). 



Scabious. 

 Ray flower seen in front 



Scabious. 

 Eay flower in profile (mag,). 



Diagram. 



Scabious. 

 Fruit cut vertically (mag.). 



Dipsaoeis are so nearly allied to Valerianecs that A. L. de Jussieu placed them in the same family 

 (see Valerianece). They resemble Compodtce in their inflorescence, which in all the genera except 

 Morina is an involucrate capitulum, in their usually paleaceous receptacle, epigynous staminiferous 

 corolla, one-celled ovary crowned hy a toothed or plumose calyx, and solitary anatropous ovule ; they 

 differ in the separate involucel of each flower, imbricate aestivation, nervation of the corolla, free anthers, 

 pendulous ovule, simple style, terminal stigma, and albuminous embryo. They approach Calyeereee in 



