SERRATULA, in botany, a genus of the syngenesia polygamia æqualis class. The calix is somewhat cylindrical, imbricated, and blunt. There are 16 species three of them natives of Britain, viz. the tinctoria, or saw-wort; the alpina, or mountain saw-wort; and the arvensis, or corn saw-wort.
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