1054 CIRCIUM. [CLASS XIX. ORDER I. 
Habitat.—In a copse-wood, called Great Ridge, on the Wiltshire 
Downs, between Boyton House and Fonthill, abundantly —A. B. 
Lambert, Esq. 
Perennial; flowering in August. 
A very distinct species, with remarkable pinnated leaves, and large 
handsome purple flowers. It is more frequent on the Continent than 
with us. 
7. CO. heterophyl’lum, Allion. (Fig. 1244.) Melancholy Plume-thistle. 
Leaves nearly smooth above, white aud woolly beneath, elliptic 
lanceolate, acuminate, the upper semi-amplexicaul, entire, ciliated 
with spines, the lower petiolated, toothed and ciliated; stem leafy, 
one to three flowered, solitary; involucre ovate, of close pressed 
lanceolate scales. 
De Cand. Prod. 6. p. 653.—Carduus heterophyllus, Linn.—English 
Botany, t. 675.—Cnicus hetero.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 393— 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 298.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 
155. 
Root with creeping underground stems. Stems erect, about three 
feet high, round, striated, white, with cottony down, simple, and ter- 
minating in a single flower, or divided above, and bearing two or 
three flowers. JZeaves lanceolate, or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, 
pliant, green above, and slightly downy, white and woolly beneath, 
the upper leaves sessile, semi-amplexicaul, entire, the margin ciliated 
with slender spines, the lower leaves large, tapering into a winged 
footstalk, toothed or lobed, and ciliated with slender spines. Flowers 
large, handsome, purple, solitary, on a long slender round peduncle. 
Involucre oblong, smooth, or nearly so, its scales lanceolate, taper 
pointed, close pressed. J’lorets long, tubular, the limb deeply eut 
into long narrow segments. Fruit ovate. Pappus of long silky 
slender rays, that of the marginal seeds mostly only rough, of the rest 
feathery, very elegant. 
Habitat—Moist mountainous pastures, especially in the North. 
Perennial ; flowering in July. 
8. C. Angli'cum, Raii. (Fig. 1245.) English Plume thistle. Leaves 
nearly smooth above, loosely woolly beneath, oblong lanceolate, acute, 
unequally waved or sinuated, and ciliated with spines, the upper 
amplexicaul, the lower petiolated ; stem single flowered, naked above; 
involuere ovate, of close pressed lanceolate mucronated scales. 
De Cand. Prod. 6. p. 650.— Carduus pratensis, Jacq.—KEnglish 
Botany, t. 177.—Cnicus pratensis, Willd.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 
394.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 298.—Lindley, Synopsis, 
p- 158. 
Root of several fleshy fibres. Stem erect, from one to two feet 
high, round, furrowed, simple, clothed with white cottony pubescence. 
