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places, wet hedge banks. I have not found it north of Derbyshire and 
Nottinghamshire. Mr. Wood. (In High-wood-lane, near Pidford, Isle 
of Wight. Mr. W. D. Snooke. On the sea coast, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. 
South side of Duddingston Loch, near Edinburgh. Greville. Very fre¬ 
quent in the lanes about Dover, and other parts of Kent and Sussex; 
also by the sides of the road between Hatton and Warwick; and about 
Brislington, in Wick grounds, and other places near Bristol. E.) 
B. June—Aug.* 
D. pilo'sus. Leaves on leaf-stalks, with appendages at the base. 
Curt .— Jacq. Austr. 248— (E. Bot. 877. E.)— Blackw. 124. 2 — H. Ox. vii. 
36. 5—Park. 984. 4 —Matth. 663 —Bod. 735. 3 —Loh. Obs. 487. 2—Ger. 
Em. 1168. 3— Blackw. 124. 1 — J. B. iii. 75. 2. 
( Stem slender, three or four feet high, branched, angular, leafy, rough, with 
ascending hooked prickles. Leaves ternate. Flowers in small hirsute 
globular heads, white. E.) 
Small Teasel. Shepherd’s Staff. Hedges and damp places. (Out 
of St. Benedict’s Gate, Norwich. At Matlock. Near Deptford, in the 
London-road. Rev. Dr. Goodenough. FI. Brit. Frequent in Norfolk and 
Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. Between Ipswich and Bury St. Edmond’s. 
Mr. Winch. Lane sides below the Vicarage, Painswick. Mr. O. 
Roberts. Emscote, on the road to Lillington, Warwickshire. Perry. 
In the Short and Long Lith, Selborne, Hants. White’s Nat. Hist. Lille- 
shall Abbey, Shropshire. Near the Lady-well in a lane leading from 
Norton to the Watling-street, Northamptonshire. E.) B. Aug. 
SCABIO'S A.f Cal. common, many-leaved: proper double, 
superior: J iecept. naked or chaffy : Seed wrapped in the 
proper calyx. 
S. succisa. Blossoms four-cleft, equal: stem undivided: branches 
approaching: leaves spear-egg-shaped: (flowering heads nearly 
globular. E.) 
Ludw. 193 — Curt. —(E. Bot. 878. E.)— FI. Dan. 279 — Fuchs. 715 — Trag. 
246— J. B. iii. 11 — H. Ox. vi. 13. 7 — Blackw. 142 — Matth. 623 — Dod. 
124. 1 — Lob'. Obs. 295. 2—Ger. Em. 726—Park. 492. l—Ger. 587. 
(Root oblong, blackish, abruptly bitten off by the adversary, for envy 
of its imaginary benefit to mankind. E.) Stem and leaves rough with 
hair, generally entire, but those on the stem sometimes serrated. 
Flowers in globular heads. Proper Cup quadrangular, hairy, with four 
shallow clefts, the segments fringed with white hair. Nectary , inclosing 
the germen, crowned with a concave, glandular receptable, armed with 
four or five strong reddish black bristles. Besides the above apparatus, 
each floret is furnished with a green spear-shaped floral-leaf, terminated 
by a white taper bristle. Blossom bluish purple, flesh-coloured, or 
white ; sometimes double. ( Stem about a foot high. E.) 
Df.vil’s-bit Scabious. (Irish: Oir ballagh. Welsh: Clqfrllys gwreidd- 
don. E.) Fields and pastures frequent. P. June—Aug.J 
* (Even the ass declines this plant, and its dried stems usually remain through the 
winter. A small speckled moth makes a secure domicile in its spinous head. E.) 
f (From scabies, an eruptive disease which certain species were supposed to 
cure. E.) 
t The dried leaves are used to dye wool yellow or green. Linn, (This plant 
