XLV. DEPSACACE^E. 
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Scabi6sa.~\ 
sions. ( Leaves opposite.) — Named from cupaw, to be thirsty ; 
the upper connate leaves containing water in their hollows. 
1. D ,*Full6num L. ( Fuller's T.) ; leaves sessile undivided, 
scales of the receptacle hooked at the extremity, involucres 
spreading or reflexed. E. B. t. 2080. 
Waste places and hedge-banks; rare. £. 8,9. — Stem 4 — 5 ft. 
high, very angular and prickly. Leaves large oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, obtusely or irregularly serrate, sometimes, especially 
the upper ones, connate. Involucre about as long as the head of 
flowers. Flowers in oval heads, pale purple or whitish. — Used in 
dressing cloth, for which purpose the hooked scales of the receptacle 
are admirably calculated. These hooks become obsolete by long 
cultivation on a poor soil ; and there is reason to believe that D. Ful- 
lonum is but a var. of I), sylveslris. 
2. D. sylvestris L. (wild T .) ; leaves sessile undivided, upper 
ones connate, scales of the receptacle straight at the extremity, 
involucres curved upward. E. B. t. 1032. 
Road-sides and hedges, not rare in south of England and Ireland ; 
scarcely indigenous in Scotland. £. 8, 9. 
3. D. pilosus L. (small T.) ; leaves petiolate with a small 
leaflet at the base on each side, involucres shortly deflexed. 
E. B. t. 877. 
Moist hedges, but not common. In several places in the middle 
and south of England; not wild in Ireland or Scotland. $ . 8, 9. — 
Stem slender, 2 — 4 ft. high, angular, rough with short rettexed prickles, 
which are longer and resembling bristles on the peduncles. Leaves 
ovate, acuminate, serrate. Heads of Jiowers rather small, round, 
hairy. Scales of the receptacle obovate-cuspidate, straight. Corolla 
white. Anthers white, much protruded. 
2. Scabiosa Linn. Scabious. 
Receptacle scaly. lnvolucel membranaceous or minute. Cal.* 
limb of 4 or 5 bristles. Stam. distinct, nearly equal. Fruit with 8 
depressions. — Named from scabies, the leprosy ; an infusion or 
decoction of some of the species having formerly been employed 
in curing cutaneous diseases. 
1. S. succisa L. (Devil' s-bit Si) ; segments of corolla 4 nearly 
equal, fruit angled with the depressions reaching nearly to the 
base and a very short crown, calyx-bristles conniving, cauline 
leaves dentate, heads of flowers nearly globose, leaves of the 
involucre in 2 — 3 rows. E. B. t. 878. 
Meadows and pastures, common. 2f. 7 — 10. — Root as it were 
cut off abruptly or bitten (radix prcemersa). Stems nearly simple. 
Leaves hairy, rather still'; radical ones ovate, mostly petiolate, those 
of the stem oblong. Flowers purplish-blue, or white. 
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