386 SYNGENESIA— POLYGAMIA-iEQU. Cariluus. 



and cottony, likewise toothed and spinous, leaves. Fl. on downy, 

 round, terminal stalks, solitary, drooping, crimson, large and 

 handsome, with a sweet musky scent at all times of the day, 

 in warm weather. Calyx-scales spreading, sharply spinous, 

 somewhat leafy. Seeds compressed, polished, marked with dot- 

 ted lines. Down minutely rough. 



2. C. acaiithokles . Welted Thistle. 



Leaves clecurrent, sinuated, very spinous. Flowers aggre- 

 gate, somewhat stalked. Calyx globose ; scales linear, 

 partly recurved. 



C. acanthoides. Ljhh. Sp. PL 1 150. W7ZW. i;.3. 1G.50. R B?-. 8-18. 

 £ng7.£of.w. 14.<.973. Wilh.^Si^. Hull.23o. Hook. ScoL236. 

 Jacq.Ausfr.t.240. 



C. crispus. Hu(ls.350. Lighff. 452. 



C. polyacanthos. Ciirf. Lond.fasc. 6. t. .54. Schreb. Lips. 15. 



C. caule crispo. Rail Syn. 194. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 1 . 59./. 



C. spinosissimus vulgaris, Polyacantha Theophrasti. Lob. Ic. v. 2. 

 21./: 



Polyacanthos. Ger. Em. 1 1 73./. Dalech. Hist. 1 473./. 



Welted Thistle. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 2 1 ./ 2. 



About hedges and in dry waste ground, not very common. 



Annual. June,Juhj. 



Root long and tapering. Stem about a yard high, much branched, 

 with copious, wavy, continuous, spinous wings. i/eri«§e green, 

 scarcely atall downy. Learesdeeplypinnatifid andsinualed, green 

 on both sides, very spinous, decurrent ; radical ones stalked. 

 Fl. crowded at the tops of the branches, purplish-crimson, not 

 half the size of the last, being hardly an inch broad. Cal. very 

 sliohtly downy,- its scales narrow, evidently spinous, some of 

 the inner ones recurved at the tips, especially at an advanced 

 period. y^H^/i. imperfect in some flowers, i'<igwr< in others. Seed- 

 down m'mwiQly rough. 



This species, before the herbarium of Linnseus came to England, 

 was generally taken for his crispus, but the leaves of the latter 

 are white, and mostly cottony, underneath; its calyx-scales 

 more leafy and erect, the inner ones coloured. This latter, w. 1 G5 

 of Haller, who wrongly quotes J. Bauhin, is a stranger in Bri- 

 tain, as our acanthoides appears to be in Switzerland. 



3. C. tenuiflorus. Slender-flowered Thistle. 

 Leaves decurrent, sinuated, spinous. Flowers aggregate, 



sessile. Calyx nearly cylindrical ; scales ovate at the 



base ; somewhat recurved at the point. 

 C. tenuiflorus. Curt. Lond.fasc. 6. t. 55. Fl. Br. 849. Engl. Bot. 



V. 6. ^ 412. TVilld. Sp. PI. v. 3. 1652. With. 698. Llook. Scot. 



236. Pultcn. Dorset. 80. 



