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Dry places In Cornwall, very rare. Cadvvith near Ruan minor; 

 and Cathellian between the Lizard point and Kynance cove. ©. 7. 

 — Stem 5 — 6 inches high. Calyx not ventricose in fruit as in the 

 last, and not spreading as in the next species : its throat hairy within. 



11. T. scabrum L. (rough rigid T.) ; heads terminal and 

 axillary sessile ovate, calyx in fruit cylindrical, the teeth un- 

 equal subulate in fruit spreading very rigid 1 -nerved, leaflets 

 obcordate serrulate, stipules ovate-cuspidate, stems procumbent. 

 E. B. t. 903. 



Chalky or dry sandy fields near the sea, on the east coast to Kin- 

 cardineshire, on tlie west to Anglesea, 0. 5 — 7. — A small spread- 

 ing plant widi many terminal and axillary, sessile, ovate heads, very 

 rigid in fruit. Leaflets with the veins thicker and curved near the 



margin. 



I •[• Throat of the calyx naked. 



12. T. glomerdtum L. (smooth round-headed T.) ; Leads ter- 

 minal and axillary sessile globose, calyx-teeth ovate very acute 

 leafy veiny at length reflcxed, leaflets obcordate toothed, sti- 

 pules ovate much acuminated, stems procumbent. -E. B. t. 



•1063. 



Gravelly heaths and pastures in the east and South of England. 

 ©, 6. — Similar to the last, but with rounder heads, and broader, 

 greener, and more foliaceous and spreading teeth to the calyx, 



13. T^strictumh. (upright round-headed T.) ; glabrous, heads 

 terminal and axillary stalked globose, calyx at length campa- 

 nulate with nearly equal subulate spreading teeth, leaflets 

 elliptic lanceolate denticulate, stipules rhomboid pointless den- 

 ticulate, stems erect. E. B. S. t. 2949. 



Rocky banks near the sea, rare. Landewednack, and Old Lizard 

 Head, Cornwall. Jersey. ©, 6, 7. — Stem 2 — 3 inches high in British 

 specimens, often 6 — 10 inches in foreign ones. Leaves glabrous, beauti- 

 fully striate and toothed, lower ones obovate. Stipules large, pointless, 

 with glandular teeth. Heads with a minute membranous cup-shaped 

 involucre at their base ; hracteas none at the base of the flowers. 

 Flowers never truly deflexed as in the foreign T. parviflorum, although 

 by the ripening of the fruit the lower ones sometimes appear so, 



14. T. suffocdtum L. (suffocated T.) ; heads sessile roundish, 



petals shorter than the membranaceous faintly striate calyx 



whose teeth are broadly subulate falcate recurved. E. B. t. 

 1049. 



Sandy sea-shores, rare. On the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk, 

 Anglesea and the south of England. 0. 6, 7. — Stems 3—4 inches 

 long. Remarkable for its dense sessile heads of inconspicuous /ozt-ers 

 and for its thin, delicate, scarcely striate cahjx. Whole plant gla- 

 brous, unless T. congestum Guss. be considered a variety. 



15. T. subterrdneum L. (subterranean T.) ; heads lateral 



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