440 200. Bennettia. 39. COMPOSITE, B. PI. ex. cat. 



XXV. 200. BENNETTIA. Thistle-gentle. 

 Periclinc ovate, cylindrical ; scales imbricate, ovate, lan- 

 ceolate, blunt ;^iOit'e'r5 all hermaphrodite; clinant/ius chaffy; 

 chaffs lanceolate, as long as the pericline ; pappus feather- 

 like; rays equal, persisting. — i?oo^ woody perennial ; stem 

 mostly simple; rout-leaves petioled; upper leaves sessile^ 

 ovate, not spinous, woolly; calathldes corymbose, upright; 

 coroUcE purple. 



Messieurs Edward and John Bennett, surgeons and 

 apothecaries of London, who devote the whole of their 

 leisure to the study of botany and natural history, and 

 have kindly given their assistance to this work. 



Bennetlia olp'ma. Alpine thistle-gentle. 



Leaves ovate, lanceolate, slender at the base, tobthed, 



nappy beneath ; pericline coloured, villous. 



Cirsium humile moutanum eynoglossi folio, pol^anlhemuin, Rail Syn,. 

 193,3. 



Cariluiis mollis foliis lapathi, Ger.em. 1184. 

 Serratula alpina, IJn. .S. P. 1 145, 

 Cirsimn alpinurn, De Candulle Fl. Gall. 3095. 

 Dock-leaved thistle-gentle. 



Apine rocks; perennial; July and August. 



Stem round, woolly; leaves rather bald above; calathldes 



nearly umbellate, large; anthers blue. 



(3. cynoglossifolin. Leaves linear, lanceolate, long. 



Cirsium montaiium polyanthennura salicis folio angusto denticulato, Rail 

 Syn. 193,4. 



y. discolor. Root-leaves ovate, nearly heartsbape. 

 Serratula discolor, Willd. S. P. 1639. 



XXVI. 201. CARLINA. Dodoneeus. Carline-thistle. 

 BractecE many, weak, pinnate-spinous; pericline cylin- 

 drical; scales linear, cartilaginous, shining, coloured, ra- 

 diating; flowers all hermaphrodite; y^/awew/^ very short, quite 

 bald; anthers with two long horns at the base ; clinunthus 

 concave, chaffy ; chaffs below membranaceous, keeled, not 

 cut; above bristlelike, many-cut, as long as the pericline; 

 akenium with a chaffy ring, above villous ; villi silky ; 

 pappus fealherlike, longer than the seed; rays adhering 

 together at the base in twos and threes, and all grown to- 

 gether into a ring, deciduous. 



1. Carlina vulgaris. Common carline-thistle^ 



Stem woolly ; leaves lanceolate, toothed, spinous, pu- 

 bescent beneath; calathldes many, corymbose. 



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