516 coMPOSiT-a:. Carduus. 



vel simplici praeler pedunculos niidiusculos alis angustis lobalis spi- 

 nosissimis marginato, foliis subtus canescenlibus in lacinias ovatas 

 trilidasvel dentalas spinuloso-ciliatas spinlvalidiore terminatas pin- 

 natipartitis, capitulis solitariis cernnis pedunculatis magnis globoso- 

 depressis. involucri parce araneosi phyllis siipra basin ovatam adpres- 

 sam in appendicem ea longiorem lanceolatam refractam vel patentem 

 in spinam tenuem abcuntem contractis, internis scariosis acuminatis 

 apice arcuatis purpureis, flosculis purpureis (?). Ic. Rchh. 146. — 

 C. macrorephalus Desf. Atl. II, p. 245 (forma capitulis majoribus). — 

 C. Taygeteus Boiss. Diagn. Ser. II, 3, p. 42. 



Hab. in incultis et sylvaticis. in australioribus montanus et subalpinus, 

 Grfecia in regione montanA Taygeti supra Androuvista (Heldr!), in regione 

 abietina Parnassi ad Gourna (Heldr!), Olynipi Thessali 5000' (Orph !), Mace- 

 donia 0'-300')' (Griseh^^, Orph!), Byzantii (Noel), Caria(Pinard !), Cilicia prope 

 Giilek (Bal 1), Lydia in monte Mesogi supra Tralles (Boiss !), Tauria el prov. 

 Gaucasicse (M.B*, Ledeb), Georgia Cauca.sica (Hohen! Rupr!). 



/3. Armenus. — Folia minus profunde divisa, phyllorum appendices 

 latiores breviores erecto-patentes vix refractse. — C. Armenus Boiss. 

 in Bourg. pl exs. 



Hab. in Armenia Turcica in arvis derelictis ad Gumuschkhan6, Baibut, 

 Ispir (Bourg!), aJ Erzerum (Huet!1, in Cataoniae monte Akkerdagh prope 

 Marasch (Haussk!) ad Giilek Boghaz Tauri Cilicici (Ky. 280!). 



Ar. Geogr. Europa tota a Scandinavia ad Rossiam mediara, Sibiria, Africa 

 l)oreaiis. 



5. C. acanthocephalus (C.A. Mey. Enum. p. 71) parce araneo- 

 sus, caule ramoso alis angustis lobatis.spinosissimis marginato, foliis 

 subtus canescentibus in lacinias triangulares lobatas spinulosas apice 

 longius spinosas pinnatifidis, capitulis ex axiliis superioribus t<Tmi- 

 nalique approximatis l)reviler pedunculatis erectis sphsericis basi 

 deprossis majusculis, involucri parce araneosi phyllis a basi lanceo- 

 latis sensim iu .spinam ercclam superne triquetram flosculos fequan- 

 tem attenuatis. inlimis coloralis inermibus (t). 



Hab. in regime alpina Caucasi oocidentalis et orienlalis 8000'-85t)0' (C.A.M.!) 

 Affinis C. nutanti. eadem fere capituli forma et magnitudo, phylla quoque 

 latiuscula et carinata sed non ai^rupte verum a basi attenuata, capitula 5-6 

 approximata erecta brevifer peduncul:»ta et statio alpina An hiic referendus 

 C podacanthus in Persia ex specimine cl. Belanger in herb. dc citato sed 

 non amplius obvio?, quod verosimile, nam species genuina ex Delphinatu ad 

 C. acanthocephalum proxime accedit. 



6. C. onopordioides (Fisch in M.B. Taur. Gauc. IJI, p. 552) 

 glabriusculus, caule modice clato alis angustis lobatis tenuiter spino- 

 sissimis obsito apice corymbose .S-5-cephaIo, foliis bniceolatis in lobos 

 I)reviter semi-ovatos lobulalos tcnuiler spiuosos sinuato-pinnatifidis, 

 pednnculis longiusculis spinulo.sis araclinoideis, capitulis mcdiocribus 

 ovato-turbinalis, involucri glabriusculi phyllis a basi oblonga in 

 appendicem ea (praesertim iu int.ermsdiis; muUo longiorem lanceola- 



