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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
GENUS XIV. 
SCABIOUS. 
SCJBlOSji. 
THE flower is compofed of numerous fiofcules, arranged in a common cup. This is formed of 
oblong fcales in fevcral feries. Each flofcule is tubular, and divided at the top into five ieg- 
mentSi and has befide the common cup two, an outer and inner, peculiar to itfelf. The leeds are 
oval, and pointed. 
Linnxus feparates this from the reft of the campofite-fiowered plants, by many clafles, placinn- ;? 
among the tetrandria, the buttons not coalcfcing. 
DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
I. Common Scabious. 
Scabiofa vulgaris. 
The root is -compofed of many thick fibres, 
united to a common head. 
The leaves that rife firft arc oblong, broad, 
and of a pale green. 
The ftalk is two feet high, hairy, upright, 
not much branched, and of a pale green. The 
leaves on this are divided deeply on the edges. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the flalks, and 
are large and blue. 
It is common in corn-fields, and flowers in 
June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Scahiofa pratenfis hirfuta qius 
It is excellent againft diforders of the breaft 
given in infufion. 
2. The Lefl*er Scabious, 
Scabiofa minor. 
The root is long, thick, and furnlilied with 
many fibres. 
The ftalk is round, upright, (lender, and twp 
feet high. 
The leaves are all very deeply divided into fer- 
ments, and are of a faint green. 
The flowers arc large, and naturally blue ; but 
they are fometimes redifli or white. 
It is common in dry paftures, and fluwers in 
C. Bauhine calls it Scahiofa co.r^itulo glohofo 
mhior. 
3. Scabious, with bitten roots. 
Scahiofa radice fuccifa. 
The root is thick, fhort, and abruptly broken 
oft-", and has a multitude of thick fibres. 
The leaves that firft rife from it are oblong, of 
a deep green, not indented at the edges, °nnd 
fmooth. 
The ftalks are flender, uprrglit, ^nd a foot 
and half high. 
The flowers are of a deep blue. 
It is common in meadows, and flowers in Au- 
guft. 
C. Bauhine calls k Scabiofa fuccifa glabra cthir^ 
futa. Our people. Blue dcviVs-bii, 
DIVISION II. FOREIGN SPECIES. 
Mufli-Scabious. 
Scabiofa Jlore filavc cknle. 
The root is formed of many fibres, conneftcd 
to a fmall head. 
The ftalk is upright, of a pale green, round, 
very much branched, and a yard high. 
The leaves are divided into yery fine fegmejits. 
The flowers are placed at the tops of the 
branches, and are of a deep purple, almoft black ; 
and they have a fine mufliy fmell. 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in Au- 
guft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Scaiicfa mofihaia. 
G E N U 8 XV. 
T E A S E L L. 
D I P S A C U S. 
THE flower is compofed of numerous flofcules, arranged in an oval head, within a common cup. 
This is compofed of a few narrow and lharp -pointed leaves. Each Bofcule is tubular, and di- 
vided at the rim into four fegments. 
LinnKus places this with the former among the tetramlria, feparating them entirely from the reft 
of the corymbiferous tribe, which ftand among his fyngemfia. 
I. Common Teafcll. 
Dipfacus vulgaris. 
The root is long, thick, and has a few large fibres, 
The ftalk is round, whitifli, thick, upright, 
and fix feet high. 
The leaves are long, and moderately broad ■ 
they ftand in pairs, and unite at the bafe in fuch 
