652 SYNGENESIA. QUALIS. Carditus 
Gurtss Cy palyacanthoo=Facq. austr. 249—Lob. ics ii. Rim 
Tabern. 1080. t-Ger. 1010. 1-Ger. em. 1173. 1-F. B: 
iii. 59=+H. ox. vii. 30. 11—Pet. 21. 2. 
with white elevated long lines. Leaves hatberd-wingllt 
Stem 
and snriskled underneath with white upright hairs, as in C, | 
crispus. Fruit-stalks with a leafy thorny border, ‘in which it 
sO as to yn is: the floret the appearance of having 2 lips an upper 
C. wutans or C. Ace Styles as long again as the florets. 
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blunt, somewhat A aearneea with 5 imperfect — the ter- 
minating one very broad and blunt, ony underneath, above 
mooth, excepting a few short hairs arising from glandular warts; 
rib ng in sharp yellow thorns; shose above pointed, wings 
triangular, confluent. Flowers sitting, crowded together, point- 
i peat » sidewise, and | me: sometimes in branched 
bunches, ‘aise the branches, on short fruit-stalks upright 
with the pisti. D, early as long as the blossom, wha le 
Woopw. Scales of ihe ely scarcely ehaay not close as in the 
C. palustris. Curt. Flowers purplish red, sometimes white. 
C. cviipas of Li a zalisat . Huns. C polyacanthos. © Curt. 
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on ba nks and under walls fear andi * Ps and also in waste 
places far from the coast. I had it growing for some years with- 
ra doreaee M¥ Woopwarp. Road sides about London. 
A. June—Septe _ 
tenuiflo’rus. C. Leaves thorny at the edge: branches strai cht, flowers 
in suet sitting : calyxes meu cylindrical, scales 
upright but open; pungen 
Curt.-E, bot. 412-F. B. iii. 56. 1. (not 516 asin Fil. Lond.) 
—Park. 982. 5—H. ox. vii. 31. 13. 
Stem and branches nee, straight, cottony upwards ; borde redy 
borders thorny. Leaves cottony underneath. Calyxes oblong= _ 
‘ conical ; scales upright, ‘spreading at top, long, narrow, ending 
