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Leaves pinnatifid. Involucral bracts all acute. 
Leaves hispid-prickly above. Involucral bracts quite 
entire . . 2... 1 ww ew ee we ee dL C. lanceolatus, 
Leaves puberulous. Involucral bracts ciliateespinous. 2. C. polyacanthus. 
Leaves undivided. Inner involucral bracts obtuse. . . 3. C. Schimperi. 
1. G. lanceolatus, Willd. Fl. Berol. Prodr. p. 259 (1787). An 
erect branched annual or biennial herb, 1-5 ft. high. Branches thinly 
arachnoid, spinous-winged in the upper part. Radical leaves petiolate ; 
stem-leaves lanceolate, sessile, decurrent, acute, pinnatifid, hispid- 
prickly above, thinly white-tomentose beneath, from a few inches to a 
foot long ; lobes lanceolate acute terminating in a long spine, ciliate- 
spinulose. Capitula ovoid, 1-14 in. long, solitary or few together on 
very short pedicels at the extremities of the stemand branches. Invo- 
lucral bracts narrowly lanceolate, acute, very numerous, the outer ones 
somewhat cottony, the inner glabrous, spreading and arching in frait.— 
Carduus lanceolatus, Linn. Sp. Pl. edit. i. p. 821; Cirsiwm lanceolatum, 
Scop. Fl. Carnio. ii. p. 1380 (1772) ; Cirsium abyssinicum, Schultz Bip. 
in Herb. Schimp. Abyss. ii. n. 1821; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 456. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Q. Dillon § Petit! Roth! Ferret § Galinier ! 
Spread over Europe, temperate Asia, and North Africa; introduced into America. 
2. CG. polyacanthus, Hochst. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss. ii. n. 1147 
sub Cirsio; Vatke in Linnea xxxix. p. 510 (1875). Stem erect, 
branched, sulcate-striate, puberulous, interruptly winged, some feet 
high. Stem-leaves sessile, narrowly elliptic, narrowed at both ends, 
Pinnatifid, puberulous or glabrate, 2—8 in. long or more; lobes ovate, 
incise-dentate, spinous, separated by obtuse sinuses; spines ranging up 
In. or more. Capitula campanulate, 3-1 in. long, solitary or @ 
ew together, very shortly pedunculate. Involucral bracts narrowly 
lanceolate, terminating in a long spine, ciliate-spinous, glabrous, not 
err Sete of the receptacle nearly } in. long.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
3. ©. Schimperi, Vathe in Linnwa xxxix. p. 511 (1875). Stem 
acct subsimple or branched, thinly arachnoid-cottony or subglabrate, 
ft. high or more. Stem-leaves oval-oblong, sessile, shortly decurrent, 
obtuse or subacute, apiculate, remotely serrulate-spinulose, white cot- 
sol, or obsoletely so beneath, ranging up to 6 by 13 In. eng anicred 
n “ary, on peduncles of 1-3 in., hemispherical, 1-1} in. diam., wi 
“towly lanceolate bracts near the base. Involucral bracts oblong 
Ta obtuse or the outer ones lanceolate and acute, ciliate-spinulose, 
Ly cottony or glabrous.—Cirsium arctotidifolium, Schultz Bip. in 
ut Beitr. Fl. Aithiop. p. 144. 
© Gand. Ab ssinia, Schimper ! : _ 
ing wo? tee 0. & H. Leaves narrowly lanceolate-oblong, scarcely spinulose, rang 
gti Buchi peo enti Bin’ ex Schweinf. et Aschers. Enum. p. 284, name 
m Abyssinia, is unknown to us. rr2 
