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B. JjiVolucre without scales at its base. Heads with a spreading 

 — . ray. Leaves nearly entire. 



9. <S'. palus'tris (DC.) ; shaggy, st. inuch branched and corym- 

 bose above, I. broadli/ lanceolate ]ialf-cla.?2n}ig, lower 1. siiituite- 

 d^ntate. — Cineraria Sm. — St. 3 feet high, thick, hollow, leafy. 

 Heads erect. Fl. bright yellow. — Fen ditches, now become 

 very scarce. P. VI. VII. E. 



10. S. ccimpes'tris (DC.) ; shaggy, st. simple, rt.-l. oblong nearly 

 entire narrowed below, stem-l. lanceolate, heads corymbose, in- 

 volucre woolly below nearly glabrous in the upper half, fr. his- 

 pid. — Cineraria integrifolia Sm. — St. 6 — 8 in. nigh, with small 

 st. -leaves. Heads erect, 1 — 6, in a simple corymb. Involucre 

 often alrdost glaljrous, pale. Fl. yellow. — In very wet seasons 

 and near 'the sea this plant is often thrice as large with many 

 larger heads and dentate lower leaves, when it is the |3. mari- 

 timus of ai^tjiors. — Chalk downs, and on maritime rocks near 

 Holyhead. P. ? VI. E. 



Tribe IV. Cynarocephala. 



Style of the perfect fl. thickened and often with artuft of hairs 

 below the, branches, which are united or free and downy exter- 

 nally. Stigmatio lines reaching to, the tip of the branches and 

 there confluent. 

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Section 1. CARLINEAi. Heads many-flowered, never di- 

 oecious. PhyUarie^ in many rows, distinot, pften spinous. Fila- 

 ments distinct,: naked/ , Ft. mostly viUose. , Pappus in I — 2 rows, 

 not sun'ounded by an elevated, margin. 



25. Sattssuu'ea Gand. 



1. S. alpiiia (DC.) ; 1'. nearly glabrous above cottony beneath, 

 " lower ones pvate-lanoeolate, upper sessile lanceolajte, aU distantly 

 toothed, heads few in a dense corymb, involucre' subcylindricai, 

 pbyll. adpressed hairy. — Serratida Sm. — St. 3 — 12 in. hi^h, 

 erect, dpwny, simple, ending in a small corymb of heads with 

 pinkish' fl. and pm-ple anthers. Fl. scented like Heliotrope. Fr. 

 glabrous. — In alpine situations. P. Mil. ■ E. S. I. 



26. Cakli'na Lirm. 



1. C. vulgaris (L.) ; st. corymbose one- or many-headed, 1. ob- 

 lohg-lauceolate sinuate spinous, outer phyll. bipinnatifid spinous, 

 inner linear-lanceolate attenuate acute ciliate in the lower half, 

 bracts shorter than the heads. — St. 6 — 12 in. high, usually cot- 

 tonv, leaft'. Spinis many, short. Root-l. lanceolate or Imear- 



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