46o SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA ^QUALIS. 



CARLINA. Gen.pl 929. 

 Cat. radiatns fquamis marginalibus longis, coloratis. 

 'vulgaris i. CARLINA canle miiltifloro corymbofo floribus 

 terminalibus, calycis radio albo. Lin.fyfi. nat. p» 

 532. Sp. pi. 1 161. {Ger. em, i^S^.f- ij 

 Common Carline Thifllc. Jnglis. 

 In dry hilly paflnres, but not very common. ^ . 

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The ftalk is about a foot high, ered:, purple, an- 

 gular, a little woolly, furnifhed with many leaves, 

 and branched at top: the leaves are woolly un- 

 derneath, and pinnatifid, with ihort angular 

 plaited fegments, terminated with Iharp yellow 

 fpines : the upper leaves at the bafe of the ralyx 

 are lanceolate and dented on the edges, the dents 

 ending each in two rigid fpines : the flowers ge- 

 nerally crown the llalk in an umbel, but fome- 

 times it bears only one or two flowers : the inferior 

 fcales of the caly:>c rcfemble the upper leaves of 

 the fl:alk : the fucceeding oiies are edged with 

 branched fpines, purple at the bafe, but yellow 

 at the points : the interior ones are long and lan- 

 ceolate, dry and fliining, fl:raw-color'd on the 

 infide, but fufcous on the outfide at the bafe, 

 and fpread like rays in a circle round the difc : 

 the florets are all hermaphrodite, tubular, di- 

 vided into 5 dents, and of a dark red or pur- 

 ple color at the rim : the receptacle is befet with 

 fetaceous chaff or puU : the down of the feeds 



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