430 Mr. Woods on the Species of Feclia. 



Perhaps the European species might be thus arranged : 



A. Flowers ringent. 



I . F. cornucopice. Upper leaves sessile. Flowers in dichotomous heads ; fruit- 

 stalks thickening upwards. 

 Coasts of Mediterranean. 



B. Flowers nearly regular. 



a. Fruit with a corky mass at the back of the seed. 



•2. F. olitoria. Fruit compressed, oblique. Barren cells without a furrow, 

 the dissepiment imperfect. Bracteee leafy, dentato-ciliate. Upper leaves 

 sometimes toothed at the base. 



3. F. gibbosa. Fruit gibbous (plano-convex). Barren cells each with a fur- 



row at the back. Dissepiment complete. Bractese quite entire. 

 Sicily. 



b. Section of the fruit crescent-shaped. Two barren cells. 



4. F. ftirgida. Fruit cup-shaped, or in external appearance sphserical with a 



sector cut out. Crown 0. Flowers in heads. 

 Rome. 



5. F.caiinata. Fruit oblong, boat-shaped, with a simple blunt crown. Flowers 



in heads. Upper leaves sometimes toothed at the base. 



6. F. flatyhbu. Lobes of the crown with a hooked awn. Calyx somewhat hirsute 



within. Flowers in heads. Upper leaves sometimes toothed at the base. 

 Coasts of Mediterranean ? 



c. Barren cells 2, hardly touching in the middle. Divisions of the 



calyx hooked. Flowers in globular heads. Upper leaves gene- 

 rally pinnatifid at the base. 



7. F. hamata. Crown a campanulate spreading border, hairless within, ending 



in 6 — 12 lobes with obtuse sinuses, and each terminating in a hooked awn. 

 South of Europe. 



8. F. coronnta. Crown nearly erect, villous within, divided down to the base 



into 6 — 12 triangular segments. 

 South of Europe. 



9. F. ciliata. Crown of 6 setiform ciliate divisions. 

 Athens. 



