Cirsium.) LX1I. COMPOSITÆ. 459 
rent margins of the leaves. Leaves pinnatifid and very prickly. Flower-heads rather 
numerous, small, and ovoid, usually collected in clusters. Involucral pet or sp ei sg 
small somewhat prickly points. Toe wen ie pappus of C. lance 
m,—Tas 
—(. arvense, Seop.; DC. Prod. vi. 643. A rather tall Thistle with « a [om Filo 
Leaves e» Bong, Ae prickly, dasping g the gas ith prickly auricles, or Short sitit 
| Flower-heads n ge, in loose corymbs, pane dex olueral hes Serene ens very 
wall prickly p nts ae achenes, and pap f C. lanceol pap laa 
Cynara cardu ; DC. Pro vi. 620 v eg pases (C. go ; DC. l.c 
lie Artichok e). A oos KS? Thistle. the s and underside of the leaves oe more or less of 
a white cottony wool. Leaves s large, deeply pinnatifid, with narrow spinous lobes or teeth. 
Flower-heads very large, the bracts much eng and fle t the base, the hard her 
Ae cultivated A rtich Receptacle very fleshy, with bristles between the florets. 
ets all tubular, CC ager” enes glabrous. Pa ie s of numerous very unequal bristles, 
the longer ones or nearly all plumose.—Near Ade 
E IE Vernoniacea.—lLeaves alternate. Flower-heads discoid, 
the fonts all tubular, hermaphrodite and regular or nearly so. — Involucres 
mboncate. — Anthers "-— obtuse at the — e, without tails. Style- 
The subulat ate s n es wed to be see in € ibd They occur also e — 
tionally i n a few genera of Asteroidea, Gnaphaliea, or Passend, which are, however, 
to be distinguished pe by their ken ege er-heads, or by their involucre 
The exceptional anthers of Pleurocarpea occu n the ond d of Mascar 
tmoniacee, Bagnegebett by De Candolle Ares e d goë of Boje 
4, VERNONIA, Schreb. 
Involucre ovoid-globular or er er ec the bracts imbricate, not longer 
he florets, the inner bracts the longest. Receptacle without scales. 
— Forets all tubular and equal, hsa fa with S narrow lobes. Anthers obtuse 
at the base, Style-lobes subulate. Achenes mostly striate or angular, rarely 
rical. Pappus of numerous capillary bristles, usually surrounded by 
® outer row of very short often chaff-like ‘bristles, which are rarely enti Y 
wanting, — Herbs, or in species not Australian, shrubs or climbers. Leaves 
alternate, Flower-heads ae or in the upper axils, in cymes or panies 
[ nime solitary. ced n mum 
E Lv, cinerea, Less.; DC. Prod. v. 24. Annual or forming a peren- 
E. Md rootstock, erect, 1 to 2 feet high, nearly glabrous, scabrous-pubescent, 
CG hoary-tomentose or woolly. Lower leaves petiolate, ovate-oblong or 
olate, often irregularly toothed or sinuate, = upper ones 
narro 
: gf: Or oc 
NM, On slender eduncles 
Yolucral act: Ge ac 
bristles 
2 - erigeroides, DC. Prod. v. 25; V. cyanopioides, Walp. in Linnea, 
? » $m, and probably nearly the whole of the section Tephrodes, DC. 
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