Composites Catananche. 267 



SUB-ORDER III. LiguliflorSB. 



Florets all ligulate. Juice usually milky. 



43. CATANANCHE. 



This genus is remarkable in this division for its scarious 

 involucre and scaly pointed pappus. There are only two species 

 described. The name is 

 an altered form of the 

 Greek KaTavaytcrj, from 

 its reputed aphrodisiacal 

 properties. 



1. C. cceriilea (fig. 

 151). A perennial of 

 straggling habit with 

 handsome blue or blue 

 and white flower-heads. 

 A native of the South of 

 Europe. 



2. C. lutea. This is 

 an annual species about 

 a foot high with yellow 

 flower-heads. Native 

 of Candia. 



44. TOLPIS. 



Involucral bracts very 

 long and slender, as well 

 as those on the upper 

 portion of the peduncle. 

 Pappus of the outer 

 florets toothed, and the 

 inner awned. There are 

 about six annual species, 

 natives of the South of 

 Europe. 



1. T. barbata.This rig ' 151 ' Catananch c * rulea - a -t. size.) 

 is an old inhabitant of the flower-garden. It is of rather 

 straggling habit, bearing yellow flower-heads with a purple 

 centre. f 



