21 i ENGLISH BOTANY. 



5-toothc(l ; anthers free, without tails ; ovary abortive ; stigmas 

 2, united. Female anthodes 2-flowered ; pericline ovoid, with the 

 phyllaries united ; corolla tubular-filiform ; stamens none ; stigmas 

 2, diverging ; achenes compressed, each included in a chamber of 

 the 2-celled pericline ; pericline indurated in fruit, terminated by 

 two beaks, and with the surface covered with hooked spines. 



Branched annuals, Mith the male anthodes terminal, the 

 female ones beneath. 



SPECIES I.— X ANT HI UM STRUMARIUM. Linn. 



Tlate DCCCLX. 



milut, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1922. 



Eeick Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MDLXXVI. Fig. 2. 



Leaves sub-cordate, 3-lobed, with the lobes again lobed, and 

 crenate or dentate. Fruiting pericline with hooked spines, except 

 at the apex, which is unarmed, and terminates in two straight 

 beaks. 



Eare, and not even naturalized, but occurring from time to 

 time in waste places and about dunghills, principally within the 

 metropolitan district. It has occurred in the counties of Dorset, 

 Hants, Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, and Northumberland. I have 

 found it on the mud dredged from the Thames, and laid on 

 Battersea Fields during the formation of Battersea Park. 



[England.] Annual. Autumn. 



Stem erect, branched, furrowed, solid, puberulent, not spinous, 

 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves palmately-nerved, stalked, 2 to 4 inches 

 across, somewhat resembling those of a vine in shape, rough with 

 short hairs. Male flowers in anthodes about the size of currants, 

 arranged in terminal sub-spicate leafless racemes or panicles ; the 

 female ones beneath, subsessile, in axillary fascicles. Pericline in 

 fruit erect, about the size of a cherrystone, covered all over with 

 stout hooked spines, and finely pubescent. Leaves rough, dull- 

 green. 



Common Bur-Mary gold. 



