Gnicus. COMPOSITE. 397 



&c. ; Herder, PI. Radd. iii. 36. S. anyustifolia, DC. 1. c. S. monticola, Richards. App. 

 Frank. Jouru. ed. 2, 29. S. multijiora, Richards. 1. c., ed. 1. Mackenzie River to Arctic 

 coast and Kotzebue Sound. (Eu., N. Asia.) 



Var. Ledeboiiri. More glabrate : leaves from sinuately or laciniate-dentate to 

 entire : involucre looser ; its bracts mostly attenuate-acuminate, less unequal, or the outer- 

 most prolonged to the height of the inner : chaff of the receptacle either sparse or wanting. 

 S. alpina, Hook. Fl. i. 303, in part. S. Ledcboun, Herder, 1. c. 41. S. snbsimtata, nuda, & 

 Tilcsii, Ledeb. Ic. Fl. Alt. t. GO, 61, G2. 5. sulsinuata, Seem. Bot. Herald, 35, t. 7. S. acumi- 

 nata, Turcz. in DC. 1. c. G3G, exactly S. nuda, Ledeb. 1. c. Xortheru Rocky Mountains in 

 the alpine region to Kotzebue Sound and Alaskan islands; in this country the commoner 

 form and manifestly passing into S. alpina. (Adj. Asia.) 



S. Americana, EATOX. Tall, 2 or 3 feet high, leafy, lightly arachnoid when young, soon 

 glabrate, bearing numerous corymbosely cymosc heads : leaves membranaceous, denticulate 

 or dentate, ovate and oblong-ovate, acute or acuminate; radical and lower cauline sub- 

 cordate and on slender margined petioles (4 inches long) ; upper sessile with acute base ; 

 uppermost lanceolate : heads half to three-fourths inch long : involucre cylindraceous or 

 Bomcwhat turbinate, pubescent, 10-17-flowered; its bracts thin-coriaceous, 5-G-ranked, all 

 pointless and obtuse ; outer successively shorter, ovate : corollas " dark blue " or " purple " : 

 receptacle bearing more or less copious setiform chaff ["naked" according to Eaton]. 

 Dot. Gazette, vi. 283. Mountains of Eastern Oregon, Custck, and Simcoe Mountains, 

 Washington Terr., T. J. Ilowell. Related to the W. Asiatic S. latlfoUa, Ledeb., and S. 

 grand ijlilia, Maxim., especially to the latter, which has an equally copious outer pappus. 



196. ARCTIUM, L. BURDOCK. ("Ap/cros, a bear, from the rough invo- 

 lucre ?) Coarse and rank biennials, of the Old World, unarmed, except the 

 hooked tips of the involucral bracts forming the bur ; with large and roundish 

 mostly cordate leaves, the lower on stout petioles, and middle-sized heads of pink 

 or purplish flowers, in summer. -- Ben th. & Hook. Gen. ii. 4GG. Lappa, Tourn., 

 Juss,, Giertn., DC., &c. 



A. LAppA, L. Plant 3 to 5 feet high, with somewhat cymosely disposed heads : leaves mostly 

 green and glabrous above, whitish with cottony down beneath : in the larger form, var. 

 uAjus (Lappa major, Gaertn., Arctium ma jus, Sehktthr), the bur an inch or more in diameter, 

 its bracts all spreading and glabrous or nearly so. Common in waste or manured ground, 

 near dwellings. (Nat. from Eu.) 



Var. TOMENTOSUM (A. Dardana, Willd., Lappa tomcntosa, Lam.), a more woolly form ; 

 with bracts of involucre cottony-webbed. Rare in N. America. 



Var. MINUS (A. minus, Schkuhr, Lappa minor, DC.), with smaller and only slightly 

 webby heads ; these more paniculate, and innermost bracts or awns of the bur erect. Varies 

 with laciniate leaves. Not uncommon. All the forms are vile weeds. 



197. CARDTJUS, Tourn., L., partly. PLTJMELESS THISTLE. (Ancient 

 Latin name of Thistle.) Old World genus, one species locally naturalized. 



C. NtJTANS, L. (Music THISTLE.) Biennial, 1 to 3 feet high, green: stem sinuately and 

 interruptedly winged : head solitary, nodding : corollas crimson-purple. El. Dan. t. 675; 

 Reicheub. Ic. Germ. t. 877. On the Susquehanna near Harrisburg, Perm. (Nat. from Eu.) 

 C. CRfspus, C. ACANTiiofoES, and C. PYCNOCEPIIALUS, L., occasionally appear as ballast- 

 weeds or waifs at seaports. 



C. PECTI\ATUS, L. Mant. 279, grown in the Upsal Garden, from unknown source, said by 

 Willdenow to come from Pennsylvania!! seeds, but doubtless not American, is referred by 

 Sprengel to C. defloratus. 



198. CNlCUS, Tourn., L., partly. PLUMED THISTLE. (Latin name of 

 Safflower, changed from KI/^KO?, of Dioscorides, applied by the herbalists and 

 early botanists to Thistles.) Stout herbs (of the northern hemisphere) ; with 

 sessile leaves, commonly with prickly teeth and tips, and large or middle-sized 



