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CENTAUREA DEPRESSA. PROSTRATE CEN- 
TAURY. 
KEKE KKK KKK KKK KER KEERE ' 
Class and Order. 
SyNGENESIA F'RUSTRANEA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composira. ) 
Generic Character. 
Anthodium ventricosum, ovatum, imbricatum, squamis 
inermibus vel spinosis. Flosculz radiales neutri tubulosi. 
Receptaculum setosum. Pappus setaceus annulo caducus. 
Hilum \aterale ad basin. 
Specific Character and Synonymns. 
Centaurea (Sect. Cyanus, DC.) depressa; caule e basi 
ramoso declinato aut simplici erecto foliisque albo- 
tomentosis, caulinis oblongis basi obtusis sessilibus 
integerrimis, infimis subdentatis, fructus umbilico bar- 
bigero, pappo fructus longitudine equali. D C. 
Centaurea depressa. M. Bieb. Fl. Tauc. Cauc. v. 2. p. 
346. De Cand. Prodr. v. 6. p. 578. Spreng. Syst. 
Veget. v. 3. p. 339. 
Centaurea pygmea. Hoffm. Hort. Mosc. 1808. n. 783. 
Allied to the well-known “ Corn Blue-botile’’ of our fields, 
but a plant of much humbler growth, and far_brighter- 
coloured flowers: indeed, we doubt if any species of this 
extensive Genus presents more lively blossoms than the one 
now before us, an inhabitant of dry hilly places of Iberia, 
and of the Province of Aberdeischan in Persia. It succeeds, 
however, in the open border with us, flowering in August in 
the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it was raised from 
seeds sent by Dr. Fiscuer. 
Descr. Root clougated, slender, annual. Stems, in the 
native specimeu, not more than a span long, in our culti- 
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