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frut: Incana, folia ramea spinosa , tiapitula cylihdrica 

 minima, squamarum spina brevissima. =r 5^. C. sor-^ 

 dida = W. sp: III. ^323. (Patria?). Perenn: Scabra 

 sub-incana , folia i-2-pinnalifi(la , capitalum solita- 

 rium globosum magnum , antbodii sqaamse ovatae fla- 

 vescentes albo - ciliatse spina terminali brevissima. = 

 58. C. pubescens = W. sp: III. i322. (Patria?). Vix 

 a priori diversa foliorum laciniis angustioribus et flo- 

 scvWs Jlmns iiec sordide purpureis, = 69. C. rigida = 

 W. suppl: p. 61. (Patria?). Perenn: Floccoso-laxata 

 rigida, folia indivisa lanceolata sub-denticulata , ca- 

 pitala rotundato-ovala , antbodii squamse ovatse gla- 

 berrinice scariosse fuscse vix spinuloso - ciliatse. = 60. 

 C. fuscata = Desf: atl: II. p. 3o2. t. 244« (Barbaria, 

 Sardin: australior: ad vias et in pascuis Moris st: sard: 

 II. p. 5.). Perenn:? Albido-pubescens, folia inferiora 

 lyrata superiora lanceolata sub - integra , flores sub - 

 corymbosi , antbodii squamse ovatss flavescentes apice 

 fuscse dilatato - clliatse spina valida patenti flava ter- 

 minatse, flosculi flavi sub-sequales. = 61. C. rupestris 

 = L. sp: 129B. (^ltal:). Perenn: Glabriuscula, folio- 

 rum i-2-pinnaLorura lacinise fillformes, antbodii squa- 

 mse lalo-ovalse sub - ciiiatJS flavescentes apice fuscse 

 spinula molli terminatae. 1=: 62. C. ceratophjlla zr: 

 Tenor: fl: nap: prodr: p. 62. non Moris (Regno Nea- 

 polit:). Priori, cum qua confusa a Spr: syst: III. ^o5., 

 valde afflnis , sed sensu meo diversa caule humiliori 

 decumbente , foliis lanugiuosis , spina squamarum va- 

 lidissima, saltem in meo specim: quod evidenter per- 

 tinet ad var: C. spinis 'validioribus Jloribus croceis 

 Tenor: fl: neap: syll: p. 44^- ^- ceratophjlla Moris 



