SCABIOSA. 
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1. nearly all radical lanceolate-oblong or ligulate coarsely and 
unequally inciso-crenate or irregularly subpinnatifidly lobed or 
sinuate, subtomentoso-pubescent more or less prickly like the 
st. chiefly at the edges or on the midrib beneath ; 1. of invo- 
lucre elongate linear-triquetrous very strong and rigid cuspi- 
date or subulate and pungent prickly-echinate spreading longer 
than the short thick globose or globosely ovoidal heads : bract- 
lets of recept. subulate-spinous thickly erecto-pubescent and 
setose, the tips smooth straight pimgent, those at the apex of 
the heads produced. — Loisel FI. Gall. (ed. 1) 719, (ed. 2, 1828) 
i. 102. t. 3 ; Spr. i. 377 ; DC. iv. 646 ; Reiclienb. Ic. FI. Germ, 
t. 706 j Gren. et Godr. ii. 68. — Herb. per. PS. reg. 2, rr. Back 
of Pico do Facho and of P. Juliana in small Ribeiras ; Sprra de 
Dentro in the bed of the Rib. do Moledo. May, June. — Root 
large strong fleshy. Foliage very dark gr. Whole pi. not above 
12 or 15 in. high. St. short or scarcely any, rarely more than 
2-3-fld, often only 1-fld. and then scape-like and quite leafless. 
L. confined to the base of the pi. or with only one or two up- 
wards on the st., about 6 in. long and f-1 in. broad, oblong and 
stalked or ligulate, very irregularly crenate and subpinnatifid 
or sinuate with few spathulate broad lobes, mostly fringed only 
at the edges or on the midrib beneath but sometimes sprinkled 
all over with strong pale straw-coloured prickles, stem-clasping 
and sometimes dilated at the base and all over thickly pubes- 
cent or subtomentose. Ped. long very stout and thick, strongly 
ribbed or angular, smoother than the rest of the pi. but still 
puberulous, copiously armed with numerous large pale brown 
or straw-col. deflexed prickles, often reduced to a radical 
1-fld. scape. FI. w. with a verj^ pale tinge of blush ; cor. 
thickly clothed outwardly with silky adpressed hairs, short 
and erect on the limb and throat, long and deflexed on the 
tube. Anthers bright purple or pink, linear. Stigma simple 
linear. Style and hi. smooth. 
Reichenbach’s fig. represents the seed-pappus as 4-angular 
or equally 4-lateral truncate and entire, instead of 4-fid or 
4-partite as he figures it in his D. laciniatus L. t. 705. But 
my spec, are not sufficiently advanced to verify this point. 
2. Scabiosa L. 
Sect. 1. Vidua Coult. Tube of involucel 8-ribbed through- 
out from top to bottom, limb short spongy indexed. 
Cal.-tube sheathed at base, limb narrow 5-setiferous 
stipitate. 
ttl. Scabiosa mabitima L. Saudades. 
St. sparingly and widely branched ; radical 1. oblong-spa- 
