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raultifid. Anthers with tips and bearded tails. Stigmas nearly concrete. Shafts of Crest 

 branched, feathery, p. 228. 



Tribe III. CARLINE2E. 



489. KENTBOPHYLLUM. Outer Phyll. ribbed, spinous at the edge ; inner with a 

 broad, dentate appendage. Fil. with a tnft of hairs in the middle. Stigmas concrete. Crest 

 of ciliate chaff, more or less deficient to outer Fits. Outer Shafts short and blunt ; inner lanceo- 

 late, acute, p. 228. 



490. CAKDOPATIUM. Cal. cylindrical. Outer Phyll. with a spinous margin, produced 

 at top into a subulate, somewhat recurved, spinous appendage ; inner subscai'iose, spinescent and 

 denticulate at toj). Fits, about 8, palmato-quinquefid, gibbous at base. Fil. smooth. Tails of 

 the Anthers with reversed hairs. Crest of 8-10 unequal pales, p. 228. 



491. CARDUISrOELLUS. Outer PhyU. ribbed, spinous at the edge ; inner with a broad, 

 dentate appendage ; innermost nearly simple. Fil. with a ring of hairs in the middle. Stigmas 

 almost concrete. Shafts of Crest all long and hair-like. Li C. monspcliensium the shafts are 



feathered, p. 229. 



492. CAETHAMUS. Outer Phyll. ribbed, spinous at the edge ; inner with a broad, den- 

 tate appendage. Stigmas nearly concrete. Crest 0. p. 229. 



493. CAIlLI]SrA. Outer PhyU. ribbed, spinous at the edge ; inner with a lanceolate, en- 

 tire, petal-like appendage. Anthers with feathery tails. Shafts of Crest branched, feathery, 

 deciduous, p. 229. 



494. SILYBUM. Outer Phyll. with a palmato-spinous appendage, and ending in a long 

 spine ; inner simple, not expanded at the top. Cor. somewhat ringent. Upper Areola of Seed 

 a horny ring, bearing a deciduous crest of ciliate shafts, p. 230. 



495. RHAPONTICUM. All Phyll. expanded, unarmed. Shafts of Crest rough, Irown, 

 rigid, not feathered, p. 230. 



496. LEITZEA. All Phyll. expanded, unanned. Fimbrils of Recept. linear. Areola of 

 Base of Seed somewhat oblique. Shafts lohite, soft, feathered. Seeds conical, p. 230. 



Tribe IV. CENTAVRm^. 



497. CWICUS. Phyll. close, ending in a long, pinnate spine. Barren rays about equal to 

 Fits, of disc. Seed regularly striate, with a broad, lateral areola. Shafts of Crest quite smooth ; 

 inner short, p. 230. 



498. MICEOLONCHUS. Phyll. close, ending in a simjile point or awn. Rays some- 

 what larger than Fits, of disc. Chaff capillary. Seed with a lateral, horny areola at base. Crest 

 double ; the inner combined into a broad unilateral pale. p. 230. 



499. CRUPINA. Phyll. close, acute, quite entire, unarmed, not enlarged at top. Rays 

 large. Seeds with an areole at base. Chaff narrow lanceolate, acuminate. Crest of the outer 

 Seeds hardly any ; of the inner of very short and very numerous outer shafts ; inner much 

 longer than seed; all very rough and sharp, p. 230. 



500. CENTAUilEA. PhyU. closely tiled, expanded at top. Rays large (wanting in C. 

 nigra). Seeds compressed, with a lateral or oblique scar. Crest of numerous, rough, not feathery 

 shafts, ganeraUy shorter than seed. p. 230. 



501. GALACTITES. PhyU. numerous, spinose, closely tiled. Recept. with a few, fine, 

 deciduous fimbrils. Rays large, somewhat ringent. Appendage of Anthers sUghtly hooked. 

 Tails none. Stigmas concrete. Areole direct. Shafts of Crest feathery, united in a sepai-able 

 ring. p. 235. 



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