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*** Heads with spreading rays. Leaves undivided. 



8. S. paludosus (L.) ; I. sessile elongate-lanceolate tapering 

 sharply serrate cottony beneath, st. straight hollow, corymbs ter- 

 minal. — E. B. 650. — St. 4—6 feet high, somewhat woolly. Flo- 

 rets yellow, of the ray narrow 13 — 16. — Fen ditches, very rare. 

 P. V.-VII. E. 



9. S. saracenicns (L.) ; I. sessile lanceolate acute glabrous irre- 

 gularly serrate the teeth small incurved, st. straight solid, corymbs 

 terminal, ray of 6—7 florets.— i;. B. 2211.— St. 3—5 feet high, 

 smooth. L. broad. Corymb many-headed. Florets yellow. — ■ 

 Watery places, local. P. VIII. 



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

 ray. Leaves nearly entire. 



10. S. palustris (DC.) ; shaggy, st. much branched and corym- 

 bose above, I. broadly lanceolate half -clasping, lower 1. sinuate- 

 dentate. — Cineraria Sm., JE. B. 151. — St. 3 feet high, thick, hol- 

 low, leafy. Heads erect. Florets bright yellow. — Fen ditches, 

 now become very scarce. P. VI. VII. E. 



11. S. campestris (DC.) ; shaggy, st. simple, root oblong nearly 

 entire narrowed below, siem-l. lanceolate, heads corymbose, 

 involucre woolly below nearly glabrous in the upper half, fr. 

 hispid. — C. integrifolia Sm., E. B. 152. — St. 6 — 8 in. high, 

 with small st.-leaves. Heads erect, 1 — 6, in a simple coi-ymb. 

 Involucre often almost glabrous, pale. P'lorets 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 

 0. maritima of authors. — Chalk downs, and on maritime rocks 

 near Holyhead. P. ? VI. E. 



Tribe IV. Cynarets. 



Style of the hermaphrodite florets nodosely thickened above 

 and often with a bunch of hairs at the knot ; its branches united 

 or free, downy externally. Stigmatic lines reaching to the apex 

 of the branches and there confluent. 



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

 CEcious. Phyllaries in many rows, distinct, often spinous. Fila- 

 ments distinct, naked. Fr. mostly villose. Pappus in 1 — 2 rows, 

 not sm-rounded by an elevated margin. 



24. Saussurea Cand. 



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

 lower ones ovate lanceolate, upper sessile lanceolate, all distantly 



