THE TEAZLE FAMILY (ORDER XL.DIPSACEyE ) 
CAD A expanding into a tube combined with 
toe seedcaseAa cup-shapedc; 
border ei tiier toothed or entire. 
COROLLA of 4 or 5 PETALS 
■t 
SCABIOSA 
SUCCISA. 
m 
Q calyx 
field 
iCABIOUS, 
united into a tube & separ- 
ating into toe same number 
pf lobes, often of unequal size, 
inserted on the throat of the ca tyx- 
tube. 
,STAMENS 4 , inserted on the 
'corolla - tube, the anthers not 
united as they are in the Daisy family. 
PISTIL of 1 CARPEL with toe style thread - 
liKe the stigma entire or 2 -lobed. 
FMT small Mry, rcelled and rseeded, 
crowned with toe calyx - border. 
FLOWERS small, stalhless, crowded together j 
into a dense mass or head onthe top ^ 
\o1 the flowptotalh which is round 
A lengthened 
A surround 
nor e rows cf bracfs^Ti nvoluc re; d 
dooming like an outer calyx . v ^ 
LEAVES opposite, without stipules. 
^DISTINGUISHED BY the flower, ^ 
,g clustered in heads surrounded \ 
by bracts^ ■ - 
by their Having 
tubular corollas 
A 4 stamens which 
are not united A by 
toe opposite leaves. 
SCABIOS \; 
MN5IS 
COMMON"! ^IjTEAZLF., 
DIPSACUS 1 SYLVESTRIS 
mfruitci 
seed 
j of flower 
pistil! dewing 
i_/A3i siarnms > 
