•2008 ADDITIONS AND COERECTIONS. 



branchiBg henbs. Leaves alternate oi- radical, broad, undivided.' Heads tera 

 ■sessile, solitary or fasciculate, homogamous ; florets all similar, hermaphri 

 totile, tubular, purplish, limb cylindric S^fid. 

 Species few, 'belonging to temperate Asia and Europe. 



1. A. Iiappa (an old generic name), Linn. Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 

 Common Burdock. A tall coarse herb 2 to 4ft. high. Leaves often 1ft. 

 ovate-cordate, margins sinuate, usually cottony on the underside. Flower-1 

 f to l^in. diameter on stout peduncles. Involucral bracts slender, ho* 

 Corolla and stamens purple, styles white. Aehenes angled and ribbed 

 mottled with black. — Lappa major, Gaertn. . 

 Hab.: Maokay. 



77b. -CARDUUS, Linn. 

 (An old Latin name for thistle). 



Involucre ovoid hemispheric or globose ; bracts in many series, appre 

 ■erect spreading or recurved and spinescent or with a spinesoent appen^ 

 Eeceptacle flat or convex, densely bristly. Filaments hairy or glabrous. An 

 bases sagittate, auricles connate, tails slender. Style-branches short, r 

 filiform, obtuse. Aehenes glabrous, obovoid, obtusely 4-angled, smooth or 

 20-ribbed, truncate or the top umbonate, basal areole nearly straight ; pa 

 ■copious, hairs many-seriate, rigid, simple or barbellate, deciduous with a 

 ring. Erect thistles. Leaves alternate, often decurrent, serrate-toothe 

 .pinnatifid, spinescent. Flower-heads solitary and long peduncled or subse 

 scattered or crowded, homogamous ; flowers all hermaphrodite and fertile (r 

 •dioecious), white yellow or red, tube. slender, limb equal or oblique, 5-fid. 



DiBtributed over temperate Europe, N. Africa and Asia. 



1. C. pycnocephalus (dense headed), lirm. Slender flowered Thistk 

 stiff annual or biennial, from 1 to 4ft. high, covered, especially the stems 

 the underside of the leaves, with a white loose cottony down. Leaves pinna 

 with short wavy, very prickly lobes, and decurrent along the stem, for 

 waved prickly wings. Flower-heads rather numerous, but small and i 

 or oblong, generally in clusters at the top of the stem and branches. Invol 

 bracts rather broad at the base, ending in a narrow, straight or slightly spres 

 prickle. Florets pink or whitish. Pappus-hairs simple. — C. tenuiflorus, Cur 



Hab.: Europe. Received from Tiaro as a troublesome weed, November, 1900. 



p. 887— Line 24 from top, after 64, add 111. Bot. Cook's Voy. PI. 168. 

 p. 889— Line 14 from bottom, after 151, add 111. Bot. Cook's Voy. PL 169 

 p. 890— Line 3 from top, after 151, add 111. Bot. Cook's Voy. PI. 170a. 

 p. 890— Line 18 from top, after 335, add 111. Bot. Cook's Voy. PI. 170b. 

 p. 890— Line 33 from top, nfter 91, add 111. Bot. Cook's Voy. PI. 170c. 

 p. 892— Line 20 from bottom, after 187, add 111. Bot. Cook's Voy. PI. 171 



p. 893— Add : 1a. V. perfoliata (perfoliate), R. Br. Prod. 581 ; t 

 Fl. Austr. iv. 46. Glabrous except a little short wool in the axils of the 1 

 •and bracts. Radical leaves petiolate, obovate or oblong, toothed or entire. S 

 or stems tall, glaucous, dichotomous, with large broad connate entire or toi 

 bracts at the forks. Flowers shortly pedicellate in the forks, the upper ones 

 ■compact corymb. Sepals 3, orbicular-cordatej about 3 lines long, the two 

 -ones scarcely smaller than the outer ones. Corolla yellow, about Ain. 



