66 ILLUSTRATIONES FLOR.F ATLAXTIC/E (mcrou g. BABRATTB). 



TABULA 13 9. 

 CENTAUREA KROUMffiENSIS Coss. 



('.. Kroiimiriiisis Cnss. in (.outpt. rcnd. Acad. sc. XC\III [188I], /168, et Iiapp. nii-ss. hot. T1111. 27. nonirn Innlum: Batt. f>t 

 Trab. /•'/. Alg. 5oo. 



Planla annua vel biennis, radice crassa subnapiformi indurata. Caules solitarii vel plures, 3-y de- 

 ciin. longi, erecti vel ascendentes, rigidi, angulati, striati, pubescenti-furfuracei, sa?pc angulis 

 scabri, in parte superiore ramosi ramis saepius paucis, erecto-palulis, /o//fl//,s, infra capitulum fer- 

 minalem incrassatis. Folia allerna, rigida, liaad decurrentia, inferiora facie utraquepuberula, petio- 

 lala, lyrato-pinnatipartita lobis lateralibus latcre utroquc saepius 2-5, a basi sensim ani])liatis. 

 oppositis vel plus minus alternis, borizontaliter ])atentibus, ovato-triangularibus vel oblongis, 

 integris vel plus niinus obsoletc denticulatis, lobo terminali multo majore interdura maximo 

 ovato ovato-suborbiculato vel oblongo acuto integro, saepius remote denticulato, media sessilia, 

 auriculato-semiampleadcaulia, ut inferiora lyrato-pinnatipartita scd lobis lateralibus paucioribus, 

 superiora (ramealia) sessilia oblonga, oblongo-lanceolata lanceolalave, basi cordato-semiamplexieauUa, 

 integra, margine scabra, facie utraque hirlulo-aspera, intcrdum apice ramorum approximata 

 capitulum subinvolucrantia. Capitula terminalia, solitaria, mediocria, heterogama. Receptaculum 

 concaviusculum, Gmbrillisalbidiserectispappum excedentihus dense obsilum. Involucrum ovoideo- 

 subglobosum, glabrum, squamis pluriseriatis imhricatis compositum, squamis pallide virentibus 

 coriaceis laevibus nilidis ah extimis ad intimas magis magisque elongatis, exterioribus ovatis vel 

 ovato-ohlongis in spindm lerminalem gracilem squama jiaulo longiorem \cl paulo breviorem a basi 

 ihI medium latere ulroque late membranaceo-dilatatam, parte membranacea subscariosa ad medium usque 

 fimbriata, ciliato-spinulosa laciniis inaequalibus mediis saepius longioribus, intermedus ovato-oblongis 

 m spinam terminalem rigidam validam erectam demum baud deflexam, basi ovato-acuminatam cras- 

 siusctilain inferne decurrentem latere utroque pra3sertim superne profunde /imbriaiam. ciliato-spinulo- 

 siiui. marginibus incurvis intus concavam, cucullatam, saepe fuscescentem, iiiiiiiiis late linearibus 

 apice 8cario80-dilatatis subintegris mlus plus miims concavinsculis spma (erminali omnino deslitutis. 

 Flo8Culi Bessiles, marginales neulri sl\lo dcslituti staminibusque ad laciuias anguslas redactis, 

 disri hermaphroditi marginalibus eequilongi \<'l paulo longiores. Corolla Uitea, superne satpe rubes- 

 cens, glandulis sparsis prsedita, longe tubulosa, tubo in Qosculis bermaphroditis inferne angusto, 

 ad sianiintim insertionem ampliato, limho 5-fido laciniis lineari-lanceolatis acutis tubo ampliato 

 Bequilongis, in Bosculis neutris tubo graciliore superne Bensim ampliato infundibuliformi, limbo 

 5-fido laciniis luho subquadruplo brevioribus. Stamina 5, filamentis brevibus papillosis. Stylus 

 gracilis, teres, in stigma linearem exsertum apice emarginalo-bilobum lobis brevibus obtusis 



productus. \rliiviua ohlonga. romprcssa , /itihmila . nilnla. levia, intciiliini suhroslulala . lulo 



laterali brevi nudo donata, pappo multisetoso pertistente tertiam achanii partem aquante coronata, 



.st/i.s- r.rlmus plitrismalis crcclis rignhs. nilmiis iiiusrrialis hrc\ionhus rtininrriilihits. i \cl (2). 

 Maio-Aug. 



