Compostte—Catananche. 267 
Sus-Orver I1.—Liguliflére, 
Florets all ligulate. Juice usually milky. 
43. CATANANCHE. 
This genus is remarkable in this division for its scarious 
involucre and scaly pointed pappus. There are only two species 
described. The name is 
an altered form of the 
Greek «xatavayxn, from 
its reputed aphrodisiacal 
properties. 
1. GC. cerilea (fig. 
151).—A perennial of 
straggling habit with 
handsome blue or blue 
and white flower-heads. 
A native of the South of h 
Europe. \ | 
2. O. lutea.—This is \ f | 
f \ /y¥ 
an annual species about 
a foot high with yellow / 
flower-heads. Native 
of Candia. | gy 
| 4 i 
44, TOLPIS. ces i 
Involucral bracts very \ | | [yy 
long and slender, as well NY 
as those on the upper f 
portion of the peduncle. = f 
Pappus of the outer | hes 
florets toothed, and the NN / 
inner awned. There are / 
about six annual species, 
natives of the South of | 
Europe. 
1. 7. barbata.—This 
is an old inhabitant of the flower-garden. It is of rather 
strageling habit, bearing yellow flower-heads with a purple 
centre. 
Fig. 151. Catananche cerulea. (j nat. size.) 
