t) 



t. 177. Cirsium Anglicum Lam, 



i Of 



232 XL VI. composite: cynakocefhal^. \Cnicus 



to our y. it has been only found in Perthshire by Dr. Dewar, and K 



near Hartlepool by Mr. 13ackhouse. It may not be the plant o/ tb'^ 



Biebersteui, an Eastern species, described with scarcely rigid points to us''^ 



the involucnil scales ; otherwise we must suppose it to have been ^-^^ 



introduced with ballast. , jj^br 



4. C. eriophoriis Willd. (ivooly -headed P.) ; leaves semi- ''^'^'1 

 amplexicaul not decurrent white and cottony beneath spinous- '^^^\ 

 hairy above pinnatifid, lobes bifid alternate segments pointing K; 

 upwards and downwards, involucres spherical woolly, the scalel ^.^e 

 with a long reflexed spinous point. £], B, t, 386. Ijn 



Waste ground and road-sides, in chalky and limestone soil. Rare ^¥ 



in Scotland; near Edinburgh, Dumbarton and in Appin. $, 7, j[r.I 



8. — Stems much branched, furrowed, 2 ft. high ; the stoutest of the 

 genus. Leaves acuminate, white and downy beneath ; their lobes 

 alternately pointing upwards and downwards, and terminated by 

 sharp spines. Involucre very large ; its scales linear, mucronate, \^^\ 



much interwoven with a woolly substance. 



5. C. heteroph^llus Willd. (inclandioly P.) ; leaves scmi-am-. 

 plexicaul (not decuiTcnt) lanceolate soft ciliato-dentate undi- , 

 vided or laclniate glabrous above white and downy beneath, 

 heads mostly solitary, involucres ovate slightly downy, scales \ 



ovate or lanceolate acuminate ayjpressed. E. B. t. 675. I somM 



^ ^ J 11* 



Moist mountain-pastures in the North, frequent. IC. 7, 8. 1 ^^^^ 



Hoot creeping. Stems 2 — 3 ft. high, striate, and, as well as the L^jpt 



under-side of the leaves, covered with a white cottony down, hi- 

 volucre dark green; its scales acuminate but not spinous. 



V 



leave: 



scarce 

 gerera 



fret 



Borrer 



m'e«5'' 



(not de- ^^^'^^ 



h minute ' \^'^ 



prickles pilose above hairy or slightly cottony beneath, lower •'I^''^ 



ones on long stalks, stem without wing or prickles with 1 — 3 

 terminal heads, scales of the involucre lanceolate, mucronate 

 appressed nearly glabrous, root of elliptical taperino- fleshy 

 knobs. E. B. t. 2562. 



In a copse wood, called Great Bridge, on the Wiltshire downs. * 



Between S. Donat's and Dunraven, Glamorganshire; Mr. Westconibe, i J™ 



Penhill, parish of Stratton St. Margaret's, 2 m. from Swindon ; Mr. j H" 



Woodward, ll-. 8, 9. — The Glamorganshire plant is said (Phyt. ^^^ 



iv, 519) to be probably C. Woodwardii of Hewitt Watson, a species 

 founded on the Penhill specimens ; but we have seen no description, 

 and do not possess specimens from any of the localities. ' assivij 



TfOC&J, 



1.0 



■ 7. C.pratcnsisWiM. {Meadow p.); creeping, leaves soft mostly 

 radical cauline ones sessile lanceolate waved at the edge or pilose 

 above cottony beneath fringed with minute prickles, heads ; W 



mostly solitary globose terminal slightly cobwebbed, scales Ian- * tt ~ 



ceolate closely imbricated mucronate. Carduus Huds. : E. B. 



ast 

 I '» Scot! 



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