Tas. 8217. 
ECHINOPS Tournerortt. 
Armenia and Persia. 
ComposiTAk. ‘Tribe CYNAROIDEAE. 
Ecutnors, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 462; Boiss. Fl. Or. 
vol. iii. p. 423. me 
Echinops Tournefortii, Ledeb. in Trautv. Diss, de Echinope, cap. 2 (1833), 
p. 21, f. 7; Jaub. et Spach, Ill. Pl. Or. vol. v. t. 427; Boiss. Fl. Or. vol. iii. 
p. 488; Mott. in Rev. Hort. 1906, p. 523, f. 200; species e grege Ritro 
eapituli compositi magnitudine insignis. 
Gerba perennis, spinosissima, caule pauciramoso usque ad 1°5 m. alto. Folia 
ampla, pinnatisecta, inferiora tripinnatisecta, 30-40 cm. longa, caulina 
~* sursum sensim minora et minus secta, omnia segmentis ultimis valide 
spino-a, supra scaberula, subtus cano-tomentosa. Capitula uniflora, 
numerosissima, in glomerulos globosos capituliformes amplos (interdum 
usque ad 12-15. cm. diametro sed saepius dimidio minores) terminales 
longe pedunculatos aggregata. Bracteae involucri communis numerosae, 
setiformes et cochleariformes, arcte reflexae, breves, capitulis absconditae. 
Bracteae involucrorum partialium numerosissimae, introrsum gradatim 
majores, omnes inter se liberae, trimorphae, scilicet : exteriores setiformes, 
pappiformes, intermediae cochleariformes vel spathulatae, apice ciliatae vel 
setulosae, interiores rigidiores, lanceolatae, longe acuminatae, pungenutes, 
margine setuloso-ciliatae, flores fere aequantes. Flores omnes tubulosi, 
hermaphroditi, circiter 3 cm. longi, pallide lilacini, antheris caerulei vel 
fere nigri. Corolla regularis, tubo tenui; limbus alte 5-lobatus, lobis 
linearibus obtusiusculis reflexis. Antherae exsertae, basi barbatae. 
Achaenia setulis longis rectis arcte appressis per totam longitudinem 
densissime vestita; pappi paleae 5, squamifurmes, fimbrillatae— Kchinopus 
orientalis Acanthi uculeati folio capite magno spinoso coeruleo, Tournef. Inst. 
oa Coroll. p, 34, fide Jaubert et Spach, Ill. Pl. Or. vol. v. ad 
t. 427. : 
This is perhaps the handsomest of the Globe Thistles in 
cultivation. It was originally described from cultivated 
plants raised in the Dorpat Botanic Gardens from seed 
collected on Mount Ararat, and Kew possesses what may be 
considered a type specimen, communicated by Ledebour to 
the late Sir William Hooker. The one flower-head is larger 
than any other we have seen of this species, being, as 
flattened out, 6 in. across. Incidentally it may be mentioned 
here that the apparent flower-heads are agglomerations of 
one-flowered capitula, each invested by an_ elaborate 
involucre of bristles and bracts. 
OotoBER, 1908. 
