356 



7. ASTEUOCEPHALUS CANESCENS. [CL. IV. 



ty, on account of the inaccuracy of synonymes, how far it ex- 

 tends towards the south, and whether it passes beyond the 

 N. Lat,. 



Synonymes and Figures. 



Scabiosa minor, 1. 3. ix. xr. Tahern. 443. Scab, media,, 



Gerard emac. 720. 

 Sc. capitulo globoso minor, Moris, sect. 6. t. 14. Buxbaum 



Hal. 295. Tournef. Inst. 465. Hist, des Plantes aux 



Environs de Paris^ p. 141, (probe jam distinxit speciem)* 



Dalibard Flor. Pariss. 45. 

 Asterocephalus fohis ad terram ovalibus. Holler Gott. 352. 

 Scabiosa descripta in Wiegel Flor. Pomer. p. 25. n. 91. C. F. 



ejus Ohs. Bot. p. 23. 

 Sc. asterocephala, Thuill. Flor. Pariss. p. 72. (var fibre 



albo). 



Sc. suaveolens, Desfont. Cat. Hort. Pariss^ ed. 2: p. 131. 



De Cand. Fl, Franc. 4. p. 229. 

 Sc. canescens. Kit. Plant. Hung. 1. p. 53. t. 53. Pohl. Bo* 



hem. 1. p. 133. Pers. Syn. 1. p. 22. Willd. Enum. 1^ 



p. 146. Baumgart. Trans. Sylv. 1. 77. Wallroth. Ann. 



Bot. p. 143. Rom et Schult. 1, p. 66. DierhacJi^ Fhr. 



Heidelb. 1. 39. 



Sc. Columbaria, ct. y. Poir enc. 6. 711. var. /3. Gmel. Bad. 

 1. p. 323. var. g. Marsch. Bieh. taur, cauc. 1. 96. 

 ? Sc. tomentosa Sibth. Smithy Prod. Fl. Gr^ec. 1. 85. 



On the Family of the Scabiosa. 



The Scabiosae, otherwise called Aggregatae, evidently con- 

 stitute a peculiar family, which are nearly related to the 

 Syngenesistae,^ by their compound flowers, by their common 

 calyx, by the chaffy leaves on their receptacle, by their mo- 

 nopetalous flowers, to the tube of which the filaments are fix- 

 ed, — ^by their fruit being inferior y forming achenias, or cary- 

 opses, and carrying pappi. But they are distinguished by 

 the free situation of the anthers, by the number of the fila- 

 ments, which are always but four, by the simplicity of the 

 stigma, and by the direction of the radicle of the embryoa 



