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1339. Expansions of the marginal corollas bluish or violet 



or white ... ... 1340 



Expansions of the marginal corollas yellow ... ... 1342 



1340. Pappus consisting of spinules only. 



Much beset with hairlets ; root producing off-shoots ; stems 

 hardly branched ; lower leaves from ovate- to linear - 

 cuneate, bluntly short-lobed ; upper leaves few and small ; 

 headlets of flowers comparatively large ; spinules of 

 ppus about eight, alternately larger and smaller, 



C. scabiosifolia, 



pappus 

 barbed. 



Pappus consisting of spinules and scales ... ... 1341 



1341. Scales of the pappus broader than long. 



Vestiture without glandules ; branches leafy ; leaves lax, 

 dilated upwards and incised, clasping with broad base ; 

 headlets of flowers comparatively large ; spinules of 

 pappus two or three, slender, barbed, alternating with 

 broad distinct scales. C, cuneifolia. 



Scales of the pappus longer than broad. 



Beset with short glandule-bearing hairlets ; stems prostrate 

 or ascendent, leafy ; leaves from obovate- to elliptic- 

 cuneate, upwards lobed ; headlets comparatively large ; 

 spinules of pappus two to seven, thin, barbed, alternating 

 with elliptic-cuneate scales. C. glandulosa. 



1342. Spinules of the pappus always two. 



Imperfectly beset with hairlets ; branches leafy ; leaves 

 from linear- to elliptical -cuneate, upwards indented ; 

 headlets of flowers comparatively large ; spinules of 

 pappus barbed, dilated downwards, without interjacent 

 scales. Figure 80. C. cymbacantha. 



Spinules of the pappus more than two ... ... 1343 



1343. Spinules of the pappus connate towards their base. 



Almost glabrous, branched ; leaves distant, from broad- to 

 lanceolar-linear ; headlets of flowers comparatively large ; 

 spinules of pappus three to five, nearly equal, broadly 

 united at the base, hardly barbed, without interjacent 

 scales. C,' erinacea. 



Spinules of the pappus disconnected... ... ... 1344 



