Carduneellus. — Cnicus. 1043 
601. (61.) Carduncellus Adans. 
Heads homogamous, many- and equal-flowered. Invyolucre in 
several rows, the outer scales leaf-like, leathery, spiny, the inner- 
ones scarious. Receptacle bristly-fringed. Filaments free, pencil- 
like below the tip; anthers not caudate. Achenes acutely 4-angled, 
hilum lateral. Bristles of the pappus in several rows, nearly equal, 
long-feathery. — Herbs with blue flowers. 
A small genus of only few species in the Mediterranean region. 
1456. Carduncellus eriocephalus Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Or., 
Ser.I fase. X (1849) p.100. — Flor. Or. II, p.711. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. @’Eg., p.98 no. 624. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
d’Kg., p. 250. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p. 799 no. 162. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Il]. Flor. d’Eg.. Supplem. p. 765. — A perennial plant, 
20—30 cm high or sometimes somewhat more; stem nearly simple, 
one-headed. Leaves rigid, pinnately lobed, spiny, the lower ones 
oblong, the upper ones lanceolate, acuminate. Head ovate-oblong; 
outer scales of the involucre lanceolate, cobwebby, inner-ones oblong- 
lanceolate, fringed toward the tip terminating in a prickle. — Flow. 
March to April. 
D. 1. D. i. D. a. sept. Not rare in deep sandy places and often 
on calcarious ground. 
Local name: khosherif (Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania and Palestine. 
602. (62.) Cnieus Linn. 
Krect thistles. Leaves alternate, often decurrent, serrate-toothed 
or pinnatifid, spinescent. Heads solitary and long peduncled or 
subsessile, scattered or crowded, homogamous; flowers all fertile 
and bisexual, rarely dioecious, white, yellow or red, tube slender, 
limb equal or oblique 5-fid. Involucre ovoid hemispheric or globose; 
scales of the involucre co-seriate, appressed, erect spreading or 
recurved and spinescent or with a spinescent appendage; receptacle 
flat or convex, densely bristly. Filaments hairy or glabrous. Anther- 
bases sagittate, auricles connate, tails slender. Style-arms_ short, 
rarely filiform, obtuse. Achenes glabrous, obovoid, obtusely 4-angled, 
smooth or 5—10-ribbed, truncate or the top umbonate, basal areole 
nearly straight; pappus copious, hairs co-seriate, rigid, simple or 
barbellate, deciduous with a basal ring. — Characters of Carduus, 
but the outer involucral-scales foliaceous and the pappus_ hairs 
feathery. 
A large genus of about 150 species, all Northern temperate region. 
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