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Cynara CarpDuNcULUS, var. COMMON 
CarDOooN. 
KKK KEE KEK KEK KEE KEK EE 
Class and Order. 
SyNnGENESIA Potyeamia ALQUALIs. 
( Nat. Ord.— Composir#. ) 
Generic Character. 
Squame involucri basi carnose, spinose. Receptaculum 
carnosum paleis fissis munitum. Pappus sessilis, plu- 
mosus. Spreng. + 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Cynara Cardunculus ; foliis decurrentibus pinnatifidis si1ts62 
tomentosis, magis minusve spinulosis, st gtect invo- 
lucri ovato- oblongis. 
Cynara Cardunculus. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1159. Willd. Sp. 
Pl. v. 3. p. 1691. Desfont. Fl. Ail. v. 2, p. 28. De 
Cand. Fl. Fr. v. 4. p.108. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 
4.p. 487. Pers. Syn. Pl. v. 2. p. 384. Spreng. cot 
Veget. v. 3. p. 368. 
Cynara sylvestris. (Artichant sauvage.) Lam. Dict. o. 1, 
p. 217, 
Common Carpoon. Mathews in Trans. of Hort. Soc. v. 4; 
pif 
(B.) foliis angustis fere inermibus, involucro superne con- 
tracto squamis obtuse spinosis. Bot. Mag. t t. 2862. 
After what has been said of the var. 8 of this plant, 
figured at t. 2862, it is needless to enter into a description 
of the present individual, which I take to be what Mr. 
Martuews, in his Memoir on the Cardoons above quoted, 
considers as the “ common Cardoon” of our gardens, the 
. Cardon pleine inerme” of the French, “‘ growing from. 
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