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'27. COMPOSITE. 



Adelaide plains and near 

 River Murray. — Nov. - Dec. — 

 Mediterranean region. 



17. Ctnara, L. 



Tnvohicral bracts many, over- 

 lapping, broad and fleshy at 

 ba.se : flowers all tubular ; 

 akenes obovoid, quadrangular ; 

 pappus of plumose hairs, recep- 

 tacle bristly. 



1. Cynara Cardunculus, 



L. Wild Ai'tichokc. CiircJodn. 

 Erect, stout perennial, Avith rib- 

 bed .stem : leaves Avliite-tomentoso, 

 especially beloAv, the lower ones 

 pinnatiscct with numerous lan- 

 ceolate, pinnatifid segments de- 

 current in wings along the axis, 

 the lobes ending in a yellow 

 .spine : heads very large, soli- 

 tarv ; involucio globular, the 



Onopordon acaule. 



outer bracts oval-lanceo- 

 late, spreading, ending in 

 a stout spine, inner ones 

 oblong, with a membran- 

 ous tip ; flowers blue. 



Roadsides and fields. — 

 Nov. - Feb. — Mediterran- 

 ean region ; introduced and 

 widely spread on the plains 

 of temperate South Amer- 

 ica (Cardo de CastiUa). 

 Closely allied to the culti- 

 vated Artichoke (C. Scoly- 

 iims, L.). 



18. CiRSiu.\r, Adan.son. 



Involucral bracts numei'- 

 ous, overlapping, usually 

 spiny; flowers all tubular: 

 stamens with hairy fila- 

 ments; akenes oblong, com- 

 pressed, truncate, smooth 

 and glabrous, Avithout ribs ; 

 pappus deciduous, of plu- 

 mose hairs in several rows ; 

 receptacle bristly. 



Leaves rouyh with small prickles on the 



upper surface, decurrciit at base C. lanceolatum 1 



liPaycs not prickly above; not or slightly 



docurrcnt C. arvense 2 



Cynara Cardunculus. 



