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4. C Cataonicum, Boiss. et Haussk. (D 1 or more ; stem 

 white, panicled-corymbose. Leaves white at lower surface, linear- 

 lanceolate, rather remotely pinnatisect, lobes short, ending in long, 

 yellow spines. Heads medium, ovate-oblong ; scales of involucre 

 triquetrous, the inner ending in a short, weah prickle — Summer — 

 Akherdagh. 



5. C Aniani, Post. (Journ. Linn. Soc, Lond., Bot. xxiv. p. 

 434). @ .6 to 1 or more ; stem papillose-pubescent, sparingly branched. 

 Leaves leathery, glabrous and strigose at upper surface, minutely 

 cobwebby at lower, oblong, the lower pinnatipartite, the segments bi- 

 tri-fid into oblong, ciliate-prickly lobes, the upper sinuate-lobed, lobes 

 triangular, acute, with sparingly prickly margin. Heads solitary, 

 terminal, ovate, .03 to .04 long, subtended by few bracts shorter than 

 involucre ; involucre glabrous, scales linear, minutely ciliate at margin, 

 ending in long, slender, erect, yellow prickles, half as long as JlowereU — 

 September — Woods above Hassan Beyley (Amanus). 



6. C. lanceolatum, L. (D 1 or more, branching above. 

 Leaves sinuate-pinnatifid or parted, divisions lobed, armed with rather 

 weak spines. Heads ovate, .03 to .05 long, with a few bracts at base ; 

 scales of involucre lanceolate, triquetrous above, tipped with a weak 

 spine — August and September — Middle zone of Amanus, and north- 

 ward. 



Var. araneosum, Boiss. Heads densely cobwebby — Dunniyeh 

 (Lebanon) ; Damascus. 



7. C. Oaillardoti, Boiss. (D 1 or more ; stems slender, 1-3- 

 headed, wings narrow, entire, with short j^rickles. Leaves lanceolate, 

 nearly entire, minutely toothed, armed with wealc prickles. Heads ovate, 

 .015 long ; outer scales of involucre tipped with a short prickle, inner 

 with a scarious, purple tip — Summer — Middle zone of Lebanon and 

 Amanus. 



8. C. §iculum, Spreng. 1 or more ; stem rigid, branching 

 above ; wings narrow, lobed, with long prickles. Leaves sinuate-pin- 

 natifid into triangular, spiny- tipped lobes. Heads ovate, solitary or 

 clustered ; outer and intermediate scales of involucre someichat cohweb- 

 ty, tipped with a prickle as long as they or shorter, inner ending ab- 

 ruptly in a triangular tip — Summer — Subalpine Lebanon and Coele- 

 syria. 



9. C. Litoanoticum, DC. @ Khuowdn. 1 to 2 or more ; stem 

 panicled, wings lobed, densely beset with long, yellow spines. Leaves 

 pinnatifid into lobed segments, beset with long, yellow prickles. Heads 

 .01 to .015 long, short-peduncled, densely clustered or racemed ; in- 

 volucre viscid, glabrous, the outer scales tipped with short prickles, 

 the inner ending in scarious appendages — Summer— Middle and sub- 

 alpine Lebanon, Antilebanon, Coelesyria, and Damascus, toMarash, and 

 northward. 



10. C. Acariia, L. .5 to 1, appressed-cobwebby-tomentel- 

 lous, canescent ; wings nearly entire, ciliate-prickly ; stem corymbose 

 above. Leaves leathery, lanceolate, with small, triangular, distant 

 lobes, tipped with long, yellow spines, spjace between loles ciliate-prickly. 

 Heads overtopped by tlie upper leaves whidh form an outer involucre, 



