202 45. COMPOSITE. 



lanceolate pinnatifid spinous wavy, in v. ovoid sub^lalDroua,p%/?. 

 broadly lanceolate adpressed terminating in a short spreading 

 spine, rhizome creeping. — K B. 276.— St. erect, 3 — 4' feet high, 

 leafy, angular, corymbose above. L. very spinous, sessile or 

 very slightly decurrent, varying greatly in wiath. — 1/3- setosus ; 

 1. lanceolate flat entire or slightly lobed. Cir. setosum M. B. — 

 Fields and roads. ^. Culross and Kirkwall, S. P. VII. ;8. IX. 

 Creeping Thistle. E. S. I. 



b. Idimb of the cor. h-parted to its middle. 



7. C. palus'tris (L.) ; I. decurrent lanceolate deeply pinnatifid 

 spinous, inv. ovoid crowded, phyll. (mate-lanceolate adpressed 

 mucronate. — E. B. 974. — St. solitary, erect, 3 — 5 feet high, 

 wand-Hke, with wavy spinous wings throughout, slightly 

 branched. Heads in a terminal cluster, small. Fl. purple or 

 white. Underside of the 1. usually cottony. Inv. with a slight 

 web.— Wet meadows. A. Vn. VIH. E. S. L 



8. C. praten'sis (Huds.) ; I. mostly radical lanceolate icawy or 

 lobed pilose above cottony beneath fringed with minute prickles, 

 stem-l. not decurrent few clasping, inv. globose solitary terminal 

 slightly cottony, phyll. lanceolate-attenuate adpressed mucro- 

 nate, rhizome creeping. — £. B. 177. Cir. anglicum Lam. — St. 

 1 — 2 feet high, cottony, usually quite simple and single -headed, 

 leafless in the upper half with a few scaly bracts, springing 

 singly from the rhizome. L. broad, soft, sinuate-dentate, rarely 

 with small 2 — 3-fid lobes, not pinnatifid, fringed with small but 

 unequal prickles, lower 1. stalked. Occasionally there are 2 or 3 

 fl. on a stem. — C. Forsteri (Sm.) is probably a hybrid between 

 this and C. palustris. It has 1. slightly decurrent lanceolate all 

 pinnatifid spinous cottony beneath, st. panicled, inv. ovoid 

 slightly cottony, root csespitose producing several stems. Sy. 

 E. B. 695.— Boggy meadows. P. VI. VIII. E. I. 



9. C. tvhm-6sus (L.) ; 1. lanceolate deeply pinnatifid pilose 

 above hairy or slightly cottony beneath fringed with minute 

 prickles, stem-l. sessile not decurrent, lobes 2— 3-fid, inv. ovoid 

 terminal 1 — ^3 together slightly cottony, phyU. lanceolate mucro- 

 nate adpressed, root of elliptic tapering fleshy fibres. — E. B. 2562. 

 Cir. bulbosum DC, Koch. — Not stoloniferous. St. 2 feet high, 

 erect, round, hairy, leafless above the middle with a few minute 

 bracts. Lower 1. stalked, stem-l. nearly or quite sessile. May 

 be a hybrid between Sp. 2 and 10. — C Woodwardsii (Wats.^ 

 much resembles this, and may be a hybrid between C. acaulis 

 and C pratensis. Sy. E. B. 696. — Greatridge Wood near Boyton, 

 and at Avebury, Wilts. P. VIII. IX. E. 



10. C. acai'ilis (L.) ; /. glabrous radical lanceolate pinnatifid, 

 lobes subtrifid spinous, iny. ovoid glabrous nearly sessile mostly 



