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pressed. Florets a little longer than the pliyllaries in the female 
flowers, equalling" them in the male. 
Var. a, genuine*,. 
S. tinctoria, Boreau, Fl. da Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. II. p. 364. 
Anthodcs stalked, arranged in a lax corymb. 
Var. 3, monticola. 
S. monticola, Boreau, 1. c, p. 3G4. 
Anthodcs subscssile, in a head-like corymb, fewer and larger 
than in var. a. 
In woods and bushy places and among brakes. Rather common 
in England, rare in Scotland, but plentiful in the woods about 
Tumlin Bridge, Kirkcudbright. Var. 3, rocks on the coast of 
Cornwall. 
England, Scotland. Perennial. Autumn. 
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Stem slender, wiry, 1 to 3 feet high, slightly branched in the 
upper half; the uppermost branches corymbosely disposed. Leaves 
very variable, from so deeply pinnatifid as to be almost pinnate 
to entire and merely bristly-serrulate at the margin ; the upper 
leaves generally sub-lyrate, with the terminal segment much larger 
than the others. Pericline of the sub-perfect flowers ^ to f inch 
long, of the female rather larger and broader ; outer phyllaries woolly 
at the margin, the inner ones merely rough, all generally purplish 
on the exposed portion. Elorets reddish-purple ; corolla of the 
sub-perfect flowers swollen in the middle. Anthers of the sub- 
perfect flowers dark -blue, those of the female plant white and 
abortive. Styles of the sub-perfect florets with the branches con- 
tiguous ; of the female longer with the branches diverging. Achencs 
fawn-colour, slightly rough with very faint elevated lines. Pappus 
of yellowish-white hairs with their secondary hairs invisible to the 
naked eye. Plant dark-green, slightly shining, sub-glabrous or with 
a few scattered hairs on the leaves and slightly rough. 
Var. 3 scarcely deserves the name of a variety, though made a 
species by Professor Boreau ; I have seen it only in Mr. II. C. Wat- 
son's herbarium : it is represented in E. B. No. 38. 
Common Saw-wort. 
French, Sarretle des Teinturiers. German, Farber ticharte. 
Tkibe IV.— CENTAUHEiE. 
Elorets all tubular, each one not surrounded by an involucel, 
those of the disk perfect ; the exterior ones generally neuter and 
