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10. CandoUii. Stem nearly simple, winged 

 almost to the top. L. lineari-lanceolate, sinu- 

 ate, dentato-spinose, lanato-tomentose on both 

 sides, as well as the Stem. Fl. crowded, ses- 

 sile, ovato-globose. Outer PhyU. webby, made 

 triquetro-subulate at the summit by an elevated 

 nerve, somewhat acute ; inner linear, acumi- 

 nate, straight, membranous, b. Hills. Prov. 

 Sandy and waste, n. It. 



11. confertus. "Branches long, webby 

 on back, winged to the tei-minal cluster of 3-5 

 flowers. L. narrow linear, sinuato-pinnatifid, 

 dentato-spinose, webby below. Fits. 20, 

 white. El. oval, sessile. PhyU. lanceolate, 

 adpressed, ending in a lax, rigid spine, b. 4-6. 

 Eoad-sides. Sard." — Moeis. 



12. fasciculiflorus. " Stem with a few, 

 short, winged branches only at the top. L. 

 lanceolate, sinuato-pinnatifid, dentato-spinose, 

 nearly smooth. PI. ovate, crowded towards 

 the tops of the branches into a long thjTsus. 

 PhyU. very smooth, lanceolate, shining, pro- 

 duced into a straight spine ; inner hardly as 

 long as outer, b. 5, 6. Hills on coast. Cors. 

 Sard."— Moris. 



13. carlinoides. White, cottony. Branches 

 winged. L. linear, pinnatifid. Segm. and 

 Teeth ending in strong spines. PI. crowded, 

 corymbose, obovato-oblong, on short stalks. 

 PhyU. wooUy at base, acuminate into spine. 

 b. ? 6, 7. High torrents, central and e. Pyr. 

 Tende ? 



14. podacanthus. Branches short, tomen- 

 tose, winged to the globose and somewhat clus- 

 tered flowers. L. lanceolate, pinnatifid, den- 

 tato-spinose, cmied. PhyU. smooth, ending 

 in a rigid, subulate, hardly spreading appen- 

 dage, p. Mountains. Dau. 



15. crispus. "L. lanceolate, tomentose 

 beneath and somewhat villous on the veius, 

 smooth, pinnatifid. Segm. ovate, 3-lobed and 

 toothed. PI. crowded or solitary. Stalks short, 

 spinose, or naked at the very summit. Seeds 

 with wrinkled striffi. b. 7, 8. Waste" — 

 Koch. This seems to he the plant more com- 

 monly known in England as C. acanthoides. 



16. acanthoides. "L. hairless or only 

 villous on the veins beneath, pinnatipartite. 

 Segm. ovate, somewhat pahnato-trifid. PL 

 subrotund, nearly solitary, on short spinose 

 stalks. Seeds finely wi-inkled. b. 7, 8. Waste." 

 — Koch. 



17. polyantbemus. "L. viUous on the 

 veins beneath, or araneo-lanate, pinnatipai'tite. 

 Segm. ovate, somewhat palmato-trifid. PI. 



ovate, 3 or 5 together, on short spinose stalks. 

 Seeds very finely striate, b. 7, 8. Waste. 

 Jura. Treves." — Kocn. I have copied Koch's 

 characters of these three .species, which seem 

 hardly different. The last rests exclusively 

 in the seeds. 



ii. Flowers nearly solitary. 



18. affinis. Stem slender at base and 

 branched at top, tomentose, not winged. L. lan- 

 ceolate, pinnatifid, tomentose beneath. Segm. 

 palmato-dentate. PI. ovato-globose, nearly so- 

 litary, erect. PhyU. Hneari-subulate, some- 

 what adpressed; inner longer, membranous, 

 unarmed, acuminate, somewhat coloured, p. 

 ^fountains. Samnium. 



19. corymbosus. "Branches long, to- 

 mentose, hardly winged, 1-flowered. L. lan- 

 ceolate, webby beneath, sinuato-pinnatifid, den- 

 tato-spinose, cUiate. Pl.^ somewhat corymbose, 

 ovate. PhyU. webby, erect, spinoso-subulate ; 

 inner hardly scaxiose, nearly unarmed, a. 5. 

 Waste. K. Nap. Sic."— DC. 



20. hamulosus. " L. araneo-lanate, or 

 nearly smooth beneath, pinnatipartite. Segm. 

 ovate, trifid or lobed. Branches rod-Uke. 

 Wings graduaUy decreasing to the naked sum- 

 mit. H. soUtary. PhyU. Unear, on a lanceo- 

 late base ; inner recurved, b. 7, 8. Waste. 

 Aust." — Koch. 



21. coUinus. "L. nearly smooth or lana- 

 to-tomentose on one or both sides, pinnatipar- 

 tite. Segm. ovate, trifid and lobed. Branches 

 rod-Uke. Wings graduaUy decreasing to the 

 naked summit. PL nearly solitary. PhyU. 

 lineari-lanceolate, adpressed or spreading, b. 

 7, 8. Waste, adr. G."— Koch. 



22. Argemone. Stem branched at top. 

 Branches hardly twice as long as the L. L. 

 oblongo-lanceolate, semipinnatifid, spinuloso- 

 dentate, smooth, somewhat glaucous beneath. 

 PI. erect, globose. PhyU. Uneari-subulate, ad- 

 pressed, webby. Spine short, b. 6, 7. For- 

 merly gathered in the Fyrenees by Pourret. 

 Perhaps a var. of C. defloratus or of C. arc- 

 tioides. 



28. arctioides. " L. somewhat webby be- 

 neath, at last hail-less, pinnatipartite, with 



elongated terminal lobe. 



Segm. lanceolate. 



2- or 3-lobed on the anterior side. Stalks naked, 

 usuaUy 1-flowered. PhyU. linear", spinulose, 

 macronate, spreading from the middle, p. 8. 

 Moimtains. s. e. Alps." — Koch. 



24. defloratus. L. haiiiess or only hairy 

 on the veins beneath, nearly of one colour, den- 



