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*** Heads with spreading rays. Leaves undivided. 



8. S. paludosus (L.) ; I. sessile elongate-lanceolate tapering 

 sharply serrate cottony beneath, st. straight hollow, corymbs ter- 

 minal. E. B. 650. St. 4 6 feet high, somewhat woolly. Flo- 

 rets yellow, of the ray narrow 13 16. Fen ditches, very rare. 

 P. V. VII. E. 



9. S. saracenicus (L.) ; I. sessile lanceolate acute glabrous irre- 

 gularly serrate the teeth small incurved, st. straight solid, corymbs 

 terminal, ray of 67 florets. E. B. 2211. St. 35 feet high, 

 smooth. L. broad. Corymb many-headed. Florets yellow. 

 Watery places, local. P/VIII. 



B. Involucre without scales at its base. Heads with a spreading 

 ray. Leaves nearly entire. 



10. S. palustris (DC.) ; shaggy, st. much branched and corym- 

 bose above, I. broadly lanceolate half -clasping, lower 1. sinuate- 

 dentate. Cineraria Sm., E. B. 151. St. 3 feet high, thick, hol- 

 low, leafy. Heads erect. Florets bright yellow. Fen ditches, 

 now become very scarce. P. VI. VII. E. 



11. S. campestris (DC.) ; shaggy, st. simple, root oblong nearly 

 entire narrowed below, stem-l. lanceolate, heads corymbose, 

 involucre woolly below nearly glabrous in the upper half, fr. 

 hispid. C. integrifoUa Sm., E. B. 152. St. 68 in. high, 

 with small st.-leaves. Heads erect, 1 6, in a simple corymb. 

 Involucre often almost glabrous, pale. Florets yellow. In very 

 wet seasons and near the sea this plant is often thrice as large 

 with many larger heads and dentate lower leaves, when it is the 

 /3. maritima of authors. Chalk downs, and on maritime rocks 

 near Holyhead. P. ? VI. . E. 



Tribe IV. Cynarea. 



Style of the hermaphrodite florets nodosely thickened above 

 and often with a bunch of hairs at the knot ; its branches united 

 or free, downy externally. Stigmatic lines reaching to the apex 

 of the branches and there confluent. 



Section 1. CARLINEsE. Heads many-flowered, never di- 

 oecious. Phyllaries in many rows, distinct, often spinous. Fila- 

 ments distinct, naked. Fr. mostly villose. Pappus in 1 2 rows, 

 not surrounded by an elevated margin. 



24. SAUSSUREA Cand. 



1. S. alpina (DC.) ; 1. nearly glabrous above cottony beneath, 

 lower ones ovate lanceolate, upper sessile lanceolate, afl distantly 



