462 71. COMPOSITE: CTNAROIDEiE. 



enhwan (Birnie ! Swinhoe !), Peiling (Webster \) ; Shantung : 

 Chefoo (Forbes \); Kiangsu : Shanghai (Maingayl); Fokien : 

 Amoy (Fortune, 68 ! Be Grijs, hb. Hance, 1452 !) ; Formosa : 

 Tamsui (Oldham, 276!); Hupeh : Ichang (A. Henry, 1370!); 

 SzEcnuEN : Chungking ( Faber !) ; Kwangtung : around Canton 

 (Hance, 1452, 11994 !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Japan. 



The plant recorded by Loureiro (Fl. Cochinch. p. 482) as Car- 

 duus tuberosus, Linn., may have been this species. 



4. Cnicus Segetum, Maxim, in Mil. Biol. ix. p. 333. 



Cirsium segetum, Bunge, Enum. PI. Chin. Bor. p. 36; DC. Prodr. vi. 

 p. 643 ; Baker fy S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 383 ; Debeaux, 

 Fl. Tchef. p. 86, Fl. Shangh. p. 38, et Fl. Tients. p. 25. 



( 'anli ins segetum, Franchet, PI. David, p. 178. 



Chihli : near Peking (Bushell ! Bunge ! Bretschneider !) ; 

 Shingking, Jaoling (Bossl), Talienhwan (Birniel Swinhoe !) ; 

 Shantung : Chefoo (Forbes !) ; Kiangsu : Shanghai (Perry !) ; 

 Kiangsi : Kiukiang (Shearer !) ; Hupeh : Ichang and Nanto 

 (A. Henry I); Szechuen: Omei (Faber I); Corea (Perry I); 

 Coeean Aechipelago : Port Hamilton ( Wilford ! Oldham, 444 !). 

 Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Mandshuria. 



This, though very near Cnicus arvensis, var. setosus, is easily 

 distinguished ; and we have followed Maximowicz in retaining it 

 as a distinct species. 



5. Cnicus tchefouensis, Franch. in Kim. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cher- 

 bourg, xxiv. p. 229. 



Cirsium tchefouensis, Debeaux, Fl. Tchef. p. 86. 

 Shantung : Chefoo (ex Debeaux). 



A specimen in the Kew Herbarium collected at Chefoo by 

 F. B. Forbes may be this species. 



6. Cnicus Vlassovianus, Maxim, in Mel. Biol. ix. p. 329. 

 Cirsium Vlassovianum, Fisch. in DC. Prodr. vi. p. 653 ; Maxim. Prim. 



Fl. Amur. p. 175. 



Shingking : Laoyehling and other hills near Moukden (James !). 

 Herb. Kew. 



Dahuria to Mandshuria. 



