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CenTAuREA Spinosa. PRICKLY-BRANCHED 
CENTAURY. 
Jeo smiloiolokeobakaeok 
- Class and Order. 
_ SyncenestA PoryeamiA FRustranea. 
Generic Character. 
 Recept. setosum. Pappus simplex. Cor. radii infun- 
-dibuliformes, longiores, irregulares. : 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
: CENTAUREA spinosa; calycibus ciliatis, foliis radicalibus 
indivisis pinnatifidisque glabris; caulinis tomentosis 
pinnatifidis, ramis spinosis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 2093. 
_ Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 148. oe 
'-“ENTAUREA spinosa; calyce subciliato, ramis spinosis, 
» Lin. Sp. Pl. 1290. Sm. Prodr. Fl. grace 2. p. 199. 
Fl. Grec. t. 902. ined. 
ERE spinosa maritima. Bauh. Pin. 273? 
RE spinosa cretica. Moris. Hist. 3. p. 136. Park. 
Theatr. 477. f. 8. : 
-Cranus spinosus. Alpin. Exot. p. 163. cum. tab. 
/"ACEa cretica, aculeata, incana. Tourn. Inst. 445. 
See 
|, Ceyraurea spinosa is a rare plant, and, though it was 
known to the older Botanists, no figure, we believe, has 
“een hitherto given of it, except the very indifferent one 
Ot Prosper Atpinus, copied by Parkinson; the plate re- 
ted to in Flora Greca not being as yet published. We 
have quoted Bavurn dubiously, because his synonyms — 
iitdly belong to this, as far as we can judge from the 
‘figure in the Codex cesareus, as copied by Doporns. 
itis a herbaceous perennial, looking from its ri idity 
‘ery shrublike, the branches are -terminated with a simple 
‘Pe. The scales of the calyx are ciliated, and poe 
