COMPOSITE. 247 



Cnicus wallichii DC; RB.L iii 363, LXXXVII 7; 



common Indian Thistle. Stem 3 to 5 feet, ribbed, 



cottony. Leaves sessile stem-clasping ; lower deeply 



pinnatisect, upper sinuate-pinnatifid : the segments 



irregularly lobed and toothed, and margin all round 



armed with numerous long slender spines. Heads 



terminal on short axillary leafy branches, forming a 



terminal corymbose panicle. Outer involucral bracts 



very spiny, inner dilated just below the tip and incurved 



there. Florets purple. Pappus white, feathery. Wight 



Ic. tt. 1 137-8. 



On the open downs. Pulneys. Flowers in June. Nilgiris. 

 Fyson 414, 3038. Bourne 524. 



Gen. DisU Himalayas of Sikkim, Nepal and Bhotan. 



P I C R I S. F.B.I. 78 evil. 



Oxtongue. 



Herbs with hispid stem, alternate or radical leaves, 



and few, long stalked, yellow flower-heads of the 



CICHORIACE^ type (p. 210) (all florets ligulate and 



similar), and characterised by the involucre composed of 



a set of narrow scarious inner bracts in one circle, with 



several shorter outer bracts ; achenes with five to ten 



rough ribs ; and pappus hairs feathery and copious. 



Species about 24, Europe, North Africa, northern Asia ; and 

 one cosmopolitan. 



Picris hieracioides Linn. ; F.B.I, iii 392, CVIl » 

 Hawkweed Oxtongue. Stem rough with stiff hairs. 

 Leaves oblong, stem-clasping, 3 to 8 by i to i^ inches, 

 sinuate-toothed, very scabrid on the margin and midrib 

 underneath. Heads often in pairs on a long common 

 peduncle, with a few linear bracts on the pedicels. Inner 

 involucral bracts all equal, outer unequal and much 

 shorter ; all scabrid with a single or double row of stiff 



