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S E R R A T U L A tin&orla.
Common Saw-wort.
S T N G E N E $ I A Polygamia squalls.
G en. Char. Calyx nearlyt cylindrical, imbricated;
fcales not pungent.
Spec. Char. Leaves ciliated, lyrato-pinnatifid; the
terminal fegment largeft. ' Florets all alike.
S yn. Serratula tinftoria. Linn. Sp. PL 1144. Hudf.
FI. An. 349. With. Bet Arr. 863. Relb. Cant.
3° 3-
Serratula. Rail Syn. 196.
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a HE root is perennial, and fomewhat woody. Stem two
or three feet high, angular. Lower leaves generally, and
fometimes all the leaves, undivided. The whole plant is firm,
rigid, and harfh to the touch, but not prickly. The flowers
are faid to be fometimes white; but this is an uncommon cir-
cumftance. This plant is not one of the moft frequent: its
ufual places of growth are grafly paftures in the neighbourhood
of woods and thickets; fometimes in hedges. Linnaeus
fays, it is much ufed in Sweden as a yellow dye for
coarfe woollen cloths; whence he gave it the name of tintloria.
Materials for that colour are fo abundant, and moll of them
fo fuperior to this, that we believe it is never made ufe of in
England.