202 45. coMPosiTiE. 



less above the' middle with a i few minute hracta.. Lower 1. 

 stalked, stem-1. nearly or^ quite sessile. — Grreat-ridge .Wood near 

 Boyton, and at Avebury, Wilts. May be a hybrid between Sp. 

 2 and 10. P. VIII. IX. E. 



10. C. acauiis (L.) ; I. glabrous radical lanceolate pinnatifid, 

 lobes subtrifid; spinous, involucre, ovate glabrcjU^, nearly sessile 

 mostly solitary, outer phyll. ovate iriner ones gradually longer 

 adpressed, root tcith flliform fibres. — St. S4. l6.— St. generkUy 

 wanting; sonietimes 3 — 12 in. long, leSfy, wdolly. L. all stalked, 

 glabrous except a, few hairs on the ribs' beneafli. Heads very- 

 large, fl. crinison. — (3. C. dubius (Willd.) ; st. much branched 

 woolly a foot or more in height. Willd. Fl. Bcrol. f. 11. Per- 

 hap3 a hybrid between this and C. arvensis.—Tixj calcare6us 

 pastures. ^. , Sai&on Walden, Essex. Mr. G. S. Gibson. P. 



VII.— IX. Cfrmind^Tliistle: ' E. 



1, ■ v.v ■ .... 



11. C. heterophyl'lns (L.) ; I. clasping not decurrent glabrous 

 above white and doivny beneath' lanceolate' st' irate fringed with 

 minidfi prickles, root-1. with long stalks clasping at th,e base,-in- 

 voluores ovate slightly downy, phyll. ovate or, lanceolate acumi- 

 nate adpressed.^Ore^ping., St. -3 — 4 feet £igh, furrowed, cp,t- 

 tony, slightly branched above! Hpads large and haridsoine. ^ L. 

 very large, undivided or laciniate.— Moist iiotmtain^ pastures. 

 P. VlLVIli- ;'„'. " "..,,,', :\'':.''-..''[ '' E.'S. 



Sections. SILYBEM. , Filaments monadelphous. Pappus 

 in 'many rows. ' ' '. ' . ■ i 



32. Si'lybum Gaert. . Milk Thistle., 



Jl. <S'. mariunum (Gaert.) — 'Cardims Sm. — ^St. -3 — 4 feet high', 

 ribbed and furrowed. L. very large, oblong-lanceolate, wavy, 

 clasping ; radical 1. pinnatifld, usually variegated with gi'een 

 aud'-milk-white. Heads large, globose. Phyll. closely adpressed 

 below, leaflike,, with I a long terminal recurved spine. Fl. purplt? ; 

 tube very long. — Waste places. 1j. VI. VII. ' E. S. I. 



Suborder II. LIG VLIFLORM. Fl, all perfect, ligi\lg,te.— 

 Style cylindrical above ; branches long, blunt, equally pubescent. 

 Stigmatic lines prominent,,nan'pw,tei-minating belowthe middle 

 of the branches. 



A. JReceptacU naked. Papptis 0. 



33. Lap'sana Linn. Nipplewort. 



Li. comnnmis (L.);' \. dentate or lobed stalked, lower 1. 

 lyrate, involucres glabrous' angular, st. panioled. — St. and 1. 

 hispid or nearly glabrous. St. 1 — 3 feet high, branched above. 



