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Eryngium corniculatum. One-horned 

 Eryngium. 

 #4m 



Eryngium. 



Clafs and Order. 



Pentandria Digynia. 

 Generic Characler. 

 Flores capitati receptaculo pabaceo. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



ERYNGIUM corniculatum; foliis ovato-Ianceolatis ; petiolis 

 Mulofis, intus feptiferis; capitulis fubconicis, fpina longa 

 plerumque terminatis. Delaroche Eryng. n. 23. /. 15. 



ERYNGIUM corniculatum', foliis radicalibus lanceolatis dentatis 

 partitifve longe petiolatis, petiolis fiftulofis intus articulatis; 

 caulinis fupremis tricufpidatis, capitulo conico fpina longa 

 faepires terminato. Brotero FL lujitan. 1. p. 416. 



ERYNGIUM corniculatum. Lam. Dicl. v. 4. p. 758. Brot. 

 Fl. Lufit. 1. p. 416. Perfoon Syn. 1. p. 299. 



ERYNGIUM cornutum. Bonn Cant. ed. $ta. p. 56. 



ERYNGIUM paluftre lufitanicum corniculatum. c fournef. htfL 



P- 3 2 7- 

 ERYNGIUM lufitanicum paluftre, caule fiftulofo, capife cor- 



nuto Tournefortii. Moris. Hiji. 3. p. 166. Raj. Hijl. Sup. 



p. 240.^ 



Desc Stem dichotomoufly branched, rounded, filiate hol- 

 low. Radical leaves (according to Delaroche) ovate, or ovate 

 lanceolate, with margins either entire, more or lefs incifed, or 

 dentate-finuate, on footftalks which are fiftular, having the cavity 

 frequently intercepted by tranfverfe partitions. Cauline leaves 

 ftem-embracing, palmate, lower ones cut into feveral fegmenti, 

 upper ones trifurcate or fometimes quite fimple, ftrongly nerved 

 underneath, fpinous. Heads of flowers nearly globofe, on peduncles 

 either terminal, or growing from the divilions of the branches. 

 Involucre of fix rigid, fubulate, channelled leaflets, fomewhat 

 unequal and terminated with a fpine. From the very centre of 

 the head grows a rigid fword-fhaped leaflet twice the length of the 

 head, like thofe of the involucre, but broader and rather longer. 

 There are fometimes two (according to Delaroche feveral) 

 dorter leaflets inflead of the long one; and now and then, though 



rarely, 



