JaSIQNE MONTANA. HAIRY ShEEp's^Sc ABIO <t/ 8. , 



JASIONE Lin. Gen. PL Syngenesia Monogamia; 



Cat. commuai's io-phyllus. Cor. 5-petala, regularise Capfi. infera, bilocularis* 

 JASIONE montana. Lin. Syjl. Vegetal', p. 666. Spec. PL p. 131;. FL Suec. n. 782. 

 RAPUNCULUS foliis linearibus fubafperis, fpica planiufcula, petalis liberisi Halter Hijt. n. 678, 

 RAPUNCULUS fcabiofe capitulo cseruleo. Bauhin Pin. 92. 

 RAPUNTIUM montanurri capitatum leptophyilon. Col. Ecphr. 1. p. 226. t. 227^ 

 SCABIOSA globularis quam ovinam vocant J. B. III. 12. 



SCABIOSA minima hirfuta. Ger. emac. 723. Rait Syn. p. 27S. Hairy Sheep's Scabious, or rather 

 Rampions with Scabious Heads. Hud/on FL Angl. ed. 2. p. 3-77. Lightfoot FL Scot. p. 377; 



RADIX annua, ligriofa, albida, fibrofa. | ROOT annual, rigid, whitifh and fibrous. 



CAULES plures, fuberedi, fpi'thamaei, etiam pedales et | STALKS feveral, nearly upright, about a fpan in leneth* 

 ultra, rigiduli, ramofi, hirfuti. | but fometimes a foot or more, rather rigid; 



. I branched, and befet with fhort rough hairs 



tOLIA plurima, feffilia, hneaa-lanceolata, obtufiuf- % LEAVES numerous, feffile, between linear and lanceo^ 



^cula, undulata, hirfuta. | late, bluntiffi, waved and hirfute; 



rj^wriiiS capitati, caarulei, fummitatibus ramorum in- % FLOWERS of a blue colour, growing in little heads 



fidentes. | n the tops of the branches. 



CALYX : Perianthium commune polyphyllum : foliolis f CALYX : the Perianthium common to all the florets com- 

 alternis, interionbus anguftioribus, includens | pofed of many leaves, which are alternate 



flores plunmos peduncuhs breviffimis adnexos, | thofe of the inner-row narrowed, including 



perfiftens. fig. 1. % numerous flowers fitting on very mort foot- 



I flalks, and permanent, fig. \ . 



Perianthium proprium quinquefidum, fuperum, J The Perianthium of each floret deeply divided into 



r>^r»^TT P , erflftenS * n ,. , 1 five fegments above the germen, and permanent. 



COROLLA propria pentapetala : Petalts lanceolatis, | COROLLA : each floret compofed of five lanceolate; 



ereclis, bafi connexis. fig. 2. % upright Petals, conne&ed at the bafe. fig. 2. ? 



STAMINA: Filamenta quinque, fubulata, brevia. | STAMINA: five tapering mort Filaments; Anthers 



Antherje quinque, oblongae, bafi connexae. ? five, oblong, connected at the bafe. fitr. 



fig. 3. % JS >* *' 



PISTILLUM : Germen fubrotundum, inferum. Sty- f PISTILLUM : Germen roundiih, below the Corolla- 

 lus fihformis, longitudine Corolla?. Stigma | Style filiform, the length of the corolla' 



^ot^a^t™" 1 ' P ur P ureum : ,* 4> 5- I Stigma club-fhaped and purplim. fig. 4, r. 



PERICARPIUM: Capsula fubrotunda, qmnquangu- J SEED-VESSEL; a roundifh Capsule, havin- five 

 lans, coronata calyce propno, bilocularis. angles with two cavities, and crowned by the 



¥ calyx proper to it. 



SEMINA plura, fubovata. ¥ SEEDS numerous^ fomewhat ovate. 



This little plant, which in its general appearance fo much refembles d Scabious, is very common on dry fandv 

 ground, efpecially about Coomb Wood, and Hampflead, and moft hilly filiations near London, and elfewhere.' 



It varies much in fize, and is fometimes, though very rarely, found with white bloffoms. 



It flowers from June to Augufl. 



Linnjeus remarks, that Bees are particularly fond of its flowers,; 



