456 LXII. COMPOSITAE. 
usually fringed or tailed at the base. Style usually slightly isola at the 
base of the branches, which are narrow and obtuse or slightly pointed and 
often erect or cohering nearly to the 
` This tribe comprises a great majority of " pit Lr etri known in si under the 
name of Thistles. The two species indigenous to en alia are, however. rickly. The 
involucre is usually ovoid or globular, hard, with numerous s imbricate xiii pere that of 
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com w tropi 
Labiatiflore. The Een united by with Cyza: oeephale under d name of 
Cynarec on account of their style, differ widely i in sch ir habit and involucre, and generally 
in their heterogamons aciei n wer-heads, and appear to me to ^ Mies better placed be- 
tween the Senecionide and the Labiati iflore. 
I SAUSSUREA, DC. 
(Aplotaxis, DC.) 
Farolan: ovoid or cam panulate, not longer than the florets, the bracts 
numerous, imbricate, not prickly, the inner ones the longest. Receptacle 
bearing bristles betwee n the florets. Florets all tubular, regular, wit 
ightly t 
and solitary, or smaller and abichlste Flor età purplish: 
A considerable genus, spread over the hill Ily regions of the northern — iml in 
the Old World. The on nly Àu Bae A species is also in India and Chin 
1. S. carthamoi oides, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 168. An annual, with a rigid 
erect ae stem of 1 to 2 t. or sometimes more, sulcate and Kai 
cottony, Leaves deeply pinnatifid or lyrate, the lower lobes narr per 
i s in, gi white and cottony ipee 3 or 
in. long ; the lower leaves sometimes ovate and nearly entire on long petioles, 
first or entirely wanting.— Serratula carthamoides, C. Le. 
Aplotaris carthamoides, are in DC. Prod. vi. 540; p “muicets, DC. xx. 
and in Deless. Ic. P]. j t. 68 ; 4. foliosa, Dier i in Trans. Linn. 
11; Haplotazis divinius F. Muell. Fragm. i. 36. 
Queensland Bowman ; Dawson and B mets rivers £ Seen di Aw Bay, 
ch s. Wales. Hunter's s River, R. B. s ten ce ver, Bec 
Ee 
Tne species is common throughout ae a e China and Japan, 4. ^ 
€ SC ie + 540, may be a large form of it with less divided leaves, ui larger more vie 
