46o SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMI A JEQUALIS. 



CARLINA. Gen. pL 929. 

 Cal. radiatus fquamis marginalibus longis, coloratls. 

 vulgaris I. CARLINA caule multifloro corymbofo floribus 

 terminalibiis, calycis radio albo. Lin.fyjl. nat. p. 

 532. Sp. pi. 1 1 61. {Ger. em. 1159./. ^-^ 

 Common CarlineThiillc. Anglis. 

 In dry hilly paftures, but not very common. ^ . 

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I'he ftalk is about a foot high, eredt, purple, an- 

 gular, a little woolly, furnifhed with many leaves, 

 and branched at top : the leaves are woolly un- 

 derneath, and pinnatifid, with fhort angular 

 plaited fegments, terminated with fharp yellow 

 fpines : the upper leaves at the bafe of the r.alyx 

 are lanceolate and dented on the edges, the dents 

 ending each in two rigid fpines : the flowers ge- 

 nerally crown the ftalk in an umbel, but fome- 

 times it bears only one or two flowers : the inferior 

 fcales of the caJyx refemble the upper leaves of 

 the ftalk : the fticceeding ones are edged with 

 branched fpines, purple at the bafe, but yellow 

 at the points : the interior ones are long and lan- 

 ceolate, dry and ftiining, ftraw-color'd on the 

 infide, but fufcous on the outfide at the bafe, 

 and fpread like rays in a circle round the difc : 

 t!ie florets are all hermaphrodite, tubular, di- 

 vided into 5 dents, and of a dark red or pur- 

 ple color at the rim : the receptacle is befet with 

 k'taceous chaft' or p^tf : the down of the feeds 



