CijMPOSITE FAMir.V 2»I 



Cliiroii, who is fabled to have healed wounds with some such 

 plant. ) 



1. C. Jdcni (Brown ,I\adiant Knapweed) is a garden escape, with 

 crimson florets, the outer ones larger; pinnatifid outer bracts, and 

 irregularly jagged inner ones. — Fl. August, September. Perennial. 



2. C. nigra (Black Knapweed Ilard-head). — A tough-stemmed 

 plant, I — 2 feet high ; loiver leaves toothed, often with a Hew 

 small lobes at the base, upper narrow, tapering ; Iieads terminal, 



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CALCiTRAFA (C^^fii Blue-l'c:!!,- niui S/ar-r/ris/,',). 



globose, with, or more commonly without, a'rav ; braels brown or 

 almost black : the outer ones egg-shaped and fringed with spread- 

 ing bristles ; florets deep crimson: pappus verv short, tufted. — 

 ^Meadows : abundant. — Fl. Tune — Septemberi Perennial. 



3. C. Seabiosa (Great Knapweed, Matfellon). — Larger and 

 stouter than the last, from which it is distinguished by its 

 pinnatitid leaves, almost always rayed heads,i bracts downy, with a 

 broad brown fringed tip and margins, bright crimson florets, and 

 longer pappus. — Dry pastures; common. — F-1. July — September. 

 Perennial. 



