composit.t:, 9 



varying much in the degree of pubescence, and consequently in the 

 green or whitish colour of the leaves. 



Welted Thistle. 



French, Chardcm Crepu. German, Krause Disld. 



This 19 one of the least troublesome of the Thistles, being annual aud less 

 abundant tlian some others. 



HYBRID.* 



CARDUUS NUTANTI-CRISPUS. Sond 



Plate DCLXXXV. 



Rekh. Tc. F). Germ, et Helv. Vol. XV. Tab. DCCCLXXVII. Fig. 3. 



BUM, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsice. No. 2G9G. 



C. acanthoides, Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 231. 



C. " polyanthemos, Doll. Eeinische Fl. p. 505." 



Intermediate between C. crispus and C. nutans, and approacliiug 

 sometimes the one parent and sometimes the otlier. 



From C. nutans it differs in the more spinous wing to the stem, 

 the smaller and less drooping or erect antliodes, the narrower and 

 less spreading outer phyllaries, and in the leaves being usually 

 slightly hoary beneath. 



From C. crispus it is distinguished by the sub-solitary and 

 sometimes slightly drooping antliodes, often without leaves in 

 their immediate vicinity, the pericline more arachnoid, and by the 

 broader and less adpressed phyllaries, the outer ones somewhat 

 recurved. 



It grows with C. nutans and C. crispus about Saffron Walden, 

 from whence I am favoured with specimens by the Rev. W. W. 

 Newbould. Professor Babington mentions it as if it were not 

 uncommon; but I am not sure that he does not include C. crispus, 

 var. litigiosus, under his C. crispus, 3 acanthoides. 



Sub-Gentjs II.— CIRSIUM. Tonrnef. 



Hairs of the pappus plumose (the hairs clothed with secondary 

 conspicuous hairs). 



* Hybrids occur in the genus Carduus so frequently, that it lias been considered 

 advisable to give figures of those which are most likely to be met with. 

 VOL. V. C 



