KNAUTIA. — SCABIOSA. 193 
[D. Fiillanuin (L. em. Huds.) ; scalvx of the. receptacle hooked 
at the end eqitalling the _fl., inrol. reffe.ied, otherwise like D. 
sylvestru.—E. B. 2080— Scarcely naturalized. B. VIII. IX. 
feaseL] E. 
2. D. vilosm (L.) ; /. atalked i/'ifh a It. at the base on each side, 
scales of the receptacle obovate-cuspidate straight, involucres 
deflexed.— A'. /A 877.— St. 3—4 feet high, slender, branched, 
rough, leafy. Heads of white ri. small, globose, exceeding the 
involucres.— Moistshadyplaces. B.VIIT. Sliepherd^s Rod. E. 
2. Knau'J'Ia L. em. Cotdt. 
1. K. arven'sis (Coult.) ; lower 1. simple, stem-1. pinna tifid, 
St. bristly, calyx with about 8 awned teeth. — E. B. 659. — St. 2 
— 3 feet high, slightly branched, with a few leaves. Radical 1. 
many, sometimes pinna tely lobed. Fl. purple, in large convex 
long-stalked heads ; onier iisxialh/ une<iual and radiant. Inv. 
bluntish. — Sometimes 1. all simple narrowly lanceolate entire or 
superficially crenate. — Fields. P. VII. — IX. Field Scabious. 
E. S. I. 
3. ScABio'sA Linn, em., Coult. Scabious. 
1. /V. Succlsa (L.) ; root-stock abrupt, heads of 11. and fr. 
nearly globose, involucel hair;/ 4-fid herbaceous, cor. 4-cleft, 
1. oblong entire, upper 1. narrower mostly entix'e. — E. B. 878. 
— St. 1 — 3 feet high, rarely branched. Radical 1. many, steni-1. 
usually few. Fl. all al il-e, purplish blue, rarely white. St. and 
both sides of the 1. hairy or glabrous.— Meadows and pastures. 
P. VIL— X. Devil's bit. E. S. I. 
2. .S'. Coluiiibdria (L.) ; heads of fr. globose, involucel membra- 
nous notched furrowed throughout, no distinct base, cor. r)-cleft 
radiant, radical 1. oblong stalked crenate entire or lyrate, upper- 
most 1. pinnatifid with linear segments. — E. B. 1311. — St. 12 — 
18 in. high. Radical 1. blunt, or, rarely, lanceolate and acute, 
on long stalks ; upper 1. rarely entire, linear. Fl. purplish, 
anth. yellow. — On a calcareous soil. P. VII. VIII. E. S. 
[6'. inaritima (L.) ; involucel and its base furrowed, cor. 5- 
cleft ; has been found near St. Ouen's Bay, Jersey ; and s. a(ro- 
purpii.rta (L.) with large dark purple H., which is probably a var. of it, is 
naturalized at Folkestone.] 
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