Carlina.] composit.e. 269 



along the Medina in several parts of its course, as about Cridmore, Bookley, &c., 

 and in ditches and drains adjoining. In the farmyard at Sheat, near Gatcombe. 



|8. In a wet bog on the moors a little N.E. of Godshill and nearly opposite 

 Moor farm. In ray specimens the flowers are both erect and slightly nodding. 



Achenia o{ a deep wood-brown colour or somewhat greenish, cnneate-oblong, 

 truncate at the summit and at the much attenuated lower extremity, tetragonous, 

 much compressed, with raised retrorsely aculeate angles (sometimes smooth, Sm.), 

 the intermediate faces wrinkled and finely striate longitudinally. Pappus of 

 4 straight, nearly erect, bristle-like awns, one from each angle, and armed like 

 them with very sharp, scarcely curved, relrorse prickles, about half as long as the 

 fruit, the two middle awns rather shorter than the exterior pair, one of them often 

 wanting. 



The leaves, as well as the stems, are of a paler green than in the next. 



3. B. tripartita, L. Trifid-leaved Bur Marigold. " Leaves 

 tripartite, leaflets lanceolate deeply serrated, bristles of the fruit 

 2—S."—Br. Fl. p. 228. E. B. t. 1113. 



In similar places with the preceding, but I think rather less frequent. FL 

 July — September. Fr. October. 0. 



E. Med. — In various parts of Sandown level. Ditch by Merry Garden. Mar- 

 gin of the pond at Hardingshoot farm. Abundant in drains and ditches about 

 Blaokpan and Ninham. 



Achenia the size of the last and very similar, but darker brown and still flatter, 

 suhlinear-oblong or obovate-oblong, truncate at both ends, with smoother faces, 

 the outer angles fringed with closer and somewhat larger deflexed prickles. Pap- 

 pus of 2 or oftener 3 bristly awns, in length and direction like those of the last, 

 but rather more closely aculeate, with more slender prickles, the middle awn, as 

 in that, shortest. 



Suborder II. GyharocephaljE. 



All the corollas tubular, 6-cleft, and generally inflated below the 

 mouth, uniform in the same head {perfect or rarely dicecious), or, as 

 in Centaurea, with those of the circumference irregular, tubular 

 and neuter. Style swollen below its branches. 



* " Pappus in 1 — 2 rows, not surrounded by an elevated margin." — Bab. Man. 



XX. Carlina, Linn. Carliae Thistle. 



" Achenes oblong, cylindrical, silky. Pappus feathery, sessile, 

 hairs unequally united at the base. Receptacle chaffy, scales 

 irregularly cleft. Involucre imbricated, tumid ; the outer scales 

 lax, with numerous spines ; the inner coloured, spreading, resem- 

 bling a ray. Anthers with ciliated bristles at the base, and long 

 appendages at the apex." — Br. Fl. 



I. G. vulgaris, L. Common Carline Thistle. Stem mostly 

 corymbose many-flowered (or simple and single-flowered) cottony, 

 leaves unequally spinous and sinuate tomentose beneath. Br. Fl. 

 p. 224. E. B. t. 1144. 



On dry, hilly, sandy or heathy pastures, fields and rough rocky waste places ; 

 very common. FL June — August. S ■ 



