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Centaurea Ochroleuca. Caucasian 

 Centaury. 



Clafs and Order. 

 Syngenesia Frustranea* 



Generic Character* 



Recept. fetofunt. Pappus fimplex. CorolU radii infimdi- 

 buliformes, longiores, irregulares. 



Specific Charailcr and Synonyms. 



CENTAUREA ochroleuca ; calycibus ciliatis, foliis radicalibus 

 obovato-lanceolatis undulatis ; caulinis decur- 

 rentibus lanceolatis dentatis undulatis lucido- 

 fublanatis. 



CENTAUREA ochroleuca. Com. de Muffin-PnflA'm. Willd. 

 Sp. PI. 3. 2289. Donn Hort. Cant. 196. 



CENTAUREA caucafica. Marfchall von Bieberjlein. 



CYANUS orientalis latifolius leviter lanuginofus, flore maximo 

 citrtno. Tourn. Cor. 32. 



Descr. Stem about a foot and half high, fimple, branched 

 near the fummit only, angular, winged by the decurrent pro- 

 cefles of the leaves, which reach from leaf to leaf. Radical 

 leaves oblong, pointed, widening gradually towards the upper 

 extremity, quite entire, but undulated at the margin, mining 

 green, though fomewhat woolly, roughifh to the touch. Cauline 

 leaves lanceolate, irregularly toothed, very much undulated, 

 alfo fomewhat woolly and roughifh. In drying, the wool 

 becomes whiter and more evident. Calyx ovate : fcales rather lax, 

 oyate, green with a black margin, fringed with tawny yellow 

 cili*. Flowers large, pale-yellow, folitary, terminal : Florets 

 *f the radius funnel-fhaped, moftly divided into fix narrow 

 fecinije, bilabiately arranged : Florets of the dtjk tubular : tube 



long 



