224 45. COMPOSITE. 



be a hybrid of C. heterophyUus and C. palustris. Moist moun- 

 tain-pastures. P. VII. VIII. E. S. 



Section 5. SILYBEJE. Filaments monadelplious. Pappus 

 in many roivs. 



32. MAEIA'STA Hill [Silybum Gaert. ed. viii.]. 

 Milk-Thistle. 



Jl. M. lac tea (Hill). Car dmts L. E. B. 976. St. 34 

 feet high, ribbed and furrowed. L. very large, oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, wavy, clasping ; radical 1. pinnatitid, usually variegated 

 with green and milk-white. Heads large, globose. Phyll. 

 closely adpressed below, leaflike, with a long terminal recurved 

 ppine. Fl. purple : tube very long. Waste places. B. VI. 

 VII. E. S. I. 



Suborder II. LIGULIFLOR&. Fl. all perfect, ligulate. 

 Style cylindrical above ; branches long, blunt, equally pubescent. 

 Stigmatic lines prominent, narrow, terminating below the middle 

 of the branches, Juice milky. 



A. Receptacle naked. Pappus 0. 

 33. LAP'SANA Linn. Nipplewort. 



1. L. commiinis (L.) ; 1. dentate or lobed stalked, lower 1. 

 lyrate, involucres glabrous angular, st. panicled. E. B. 844. 

 St. and 1. hispid or nearly glabrous. St. 1 3 feet high, branched 

 above. Heads small, with yellow fl. in terminal panicles with 

 small subulate bracts at the subdivisions. Inv. of fr. erect, 

 Waste and cultivated ground. A. VII. VIII. E. S. I. 



B. Receptacle naked. Pappus like a woion, of many entire 

 broad scales. 



34. AENOS'ERIS Gaert. Swine's Succory. 



1. A.pusil'la (Gaert.). E. B. 95. St. 38 in. high, swell- 

 ing and hollow upwards, leafless, with a minute bract at the 

 base of each branch. Each branch overtopping its predecessor 

 and gradually thickening up to the solitary small terminal head 

 of yellow flowers. Inv. connivent over the fr. when its phyll. 

 become remarkably keeled. Receptacle honycombed towards 

 the margins. Fr. small, obovate, attenuate below, 5-angled. 

 L. radical, oblong, toothed. Gravelly and sandy fields, rare. 

 A. VI. VIII. E. S. 



