196 45. COMPOSITE. 



xvi. 941. — St. 1 — 3 feet high, with opposite branches. L. 

 simple, narrowed below but not stalked. Heads terminal, soli- 

 tary, drooping. Fl. brownish yellow. — Sometimes radiant 

 marginal fl. are found. — Watery places. A. VIII. IX. E. S. I. 



24. (20.) Galinso'ga B. and P. 



*1. O. pm'vifldra (Cav.) ; subglabrous, receptacle conical, 

 pappus of 8—16 scales.— %. E. B. 765. R. xvi. 983.— St. 

 1 — 2 feet high ; branches opposite. L. opposite, ovate, stalked. 

 n. of ray few, broadly ligulate, short, white ; of the disk about 

 as long as the phyllaries, yellow. — A South- American plant 

 escaped from Kew Gardens, and quite naturahzed in many 

 places. A. VII.— IX. i.. 



Tribe IX. Cynarocephalce. 



Fl. all tubular. Style of the perfect fl. thickened and often 

 with a tuft of hairs below the branches, which are united or free 

 and downy externally. 



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

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

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

 not surrounded hy an elemted margin. 



25. Satjssur'ba Cancl. 



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

 lower ones ovate-lanceolate, upper sessile lanceolate, all distantly 

 toothed, heads few in a dense corymb, involucre subcylindrical, 

 phyll. adpressed hairy. — Serratula L. E. B. 599. — St. 3 — 12 in. 

 high, erect, downy, simple, ending in a small corymb of heads 

 with pinkish fl. and purple anthers. Fl. scented like Heliotrope. 

 Fr. glabrous. — In alpine situations. P. VIH. £. S. I. 



26. Cakli'na Linn. 



1. C vidgdris (Ij.) ; st. corymbose one- or many-headed, 1. ob- 

 long-lanceolate sinuate spinous, outer phyll. bipiunatitid spinous, 

 inner linear-lanceolate attenuate acute eiliate in the lower half, 

 bracts shorter than the heads. — E. B. 1144. — -St. 6 — 12 in. high, 

 usually cottony, leafy. Spines many, short. Root-1. lanceolate 

 or linear-lanceolate. Underside of the 1. and phyll. often cottony. 

 Heads large ; inner phyll. cream-coloured (a false rav) ; anth. 

 yellow.— Dry sandy heaths. B. VII.— X. " E. S. T. 



27. Aeo'iium Linn. Burdock. 

 1. A. mfyMS (Schk.) ; heads loosely mhcorymlose lon^-stalhed 



