1040 Compositae. 
— Centaurea eriocephala Boiss. and Reut. Diagnos. Plant. Or. Ser. II, 
fase. 3 p. 86. — Centaurea Kralikii Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Or. Ser. I, 
fasc. 3 p.84 (only a stemless form). — Centaurea pseudophilostizus 
Godr. Flor. Juven., p. 86. — A perennial plant, 15—20 cm high or 
sometimes somewhat. more, rarely acaulis, araneous-canescent or 
greyish, branching frem the neck; central branch very short mono- 
cephalous, the lateral ones ascendent or procumbent, 1—3-cephalous, 
narrow-winged; basilar leaves rosulate entire, cut in ovate triangular 
mucronate-denticulate legate segments; those of the stem decurrent 
in small wings; capitula large solitary, terminal, ovate; scales of 
the involucre araneous-lanate narrowed into an appendix with 
7—13 spinules; spines yellow, the terminal one larger than the 
side-ones; flowers purplish; achenes, with pappus. — Flow. March 
to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Montaza; Alexandria-West and 
-Kast; Mandara; Abukir. 
Also known from other parts of North Africa. 
600. (60.) Carthamus Linn. 
Capitula homogamous; flowers all fertile (rarely outer 1-seriate 
female or 0). Involucre ovoid or subglobose; bracts co-seriate, imbricate 
below, the outer or intermediate foliaceous and spinescent in wild 
forms. Receptacle plane, setose. Pappus more or less paleaceous, 
co-seriate, occasionally 0. — Thistle-like rigid herbs, with alternate 
spinose-pinnatifid or spinulose-serrate leaves and terminal solitary 
or cymose rather large often fiercely involucrate scarlet yellow 
whitish or rose capitula. 
Chiefly confined to the Mediterranean region and Levant. 
A. Pappus chaffy. 
Tee owersiyellow cnc cent oeememton en rendre 1. C. lanatus. 
i *Hlowers: purple." .t.20a0-0. asses 2. C. glaucus. 
B. Pappus all composed of bristles. ....-..-. 3. C. mareoticus. 
O; (Pappis 0 ot ca ies sg naan) oh wh tage na ene eee 4. C. tinetorius. 
1452. (1.) Carthamus lanatus L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 1163. 
Boiss. Flor. Or. II, p.706. — Sibth. and Sm. Flor. graec., tab. 841. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 96. no. 620. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 249. — Aschers.- Schweinf. Primit. Flor. 
Marmaric., p. 656 no. 193. — Rehbch. Ie. XVI, tab. 15. — Carthamus 
taurica M. B. Flor. Tauric. Caue. II, p. 285. — Carthamus ereticus 1. 
Spec. Plant. I, p.1163 not of Syst. Nat. — Kentrophyllum lanatum 
DC. Bot. Gall. I, p. 293. — An annual or biennial plant 50 em to 
1m high or sometimes somewhat more, more or less cobwebby; 
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