COMPOSITE. 9 



varying much in the degree of pubescence, and consequently in the 

 green or whitish colour of the leaves. 



Welted Thistle. 



French, Ghardon Crepu. German, Krause Distel. 



This is one of the least troublesome of the Thistles, being annual and less 

 abtindant than some others. 



HYBRID.* 



CARDUUS NUTANTI-CRISPUS. Sond. 



Plate DCLXXXV. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XV. Tab. DCCCLXXVII. Fig. 3. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2696. 



C. acanthoides, Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 231. 



C. " polyanthemos, Doll. Reinische Fl. p. 50o." 



Intermediate between C. crispus and C. nutans, and approaching 

 sometimes the one parent and sometimes the other. 



Prom C. nutans it differs in the more spinous wing to the stem, 

 the smaller and less drooping or erect anthodes, the narrowei- and 

 less spreading outer phyllaries, and in the leaves being usually 

 slightly hoary beneath. 



From C. crispus it is distinguished by the sub-solitary and 

 sometimes slightly drooping anthodes, often without leaves in 

 their immediate vicinity, the pericline more arachnoid, and by the 

 broader and less adpressed phyllaries, the outer ones somewhat 

 recurved. 



It grows with C. nutans and C. crispus about Saffron Walden, 

 from whence I am favoured with specimens by the Rev. W. W. 

 Newbould. Professor Babington mentions it as if it were not 

 uncommon ; but I am not sure that he does not include C. crispus, 

 var. litigiosus, under his C. crispus, 3 acanthoides. 



Sub-Genus II.— CIRSIUM. Tournef. 



Hairs of the pappus plumose (the hairs clothed with secondary 

 conspicuous hairs). 



* Hybrids occur in the genus Carduus so frequently, that it has been considered 

 advisable to give figures of those which are most likely to be met with. 

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