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herbaceous, fr. all equally beaked.—E. B. S.2929.—Root fusi- 
form. St. 1—2 feet high, hispid, angular, furrowed, purple 
below, at length branched, corymbose. LL. mostly radical lyrate- 
runcinate with retrorse teeth, or deeply pinnatifid with the ter- 
minal lobe large. Stem-l. few, sessile, clasping, deeply pinnati- 
fid and toothed. Florets yellow, purple beneath. Fr. narrowing 
very gradually mto a setaceous beak of about its own length, 
ribs rough.— Limestone districts. B. VI. VII. i. I 
[C. setosa (Hall.); 1. runcmate-dentate or lyrate-runcinate, 
st.-l. sagittate entire or incise-dentate below, heads erect, inv. 
about covering the pappus, margin of the outer lanceolate acute 
phyll. and the bracts the back of the inner phyll. and the ped. 
hispid with rigid simple bristles.—E. B. S. 2945.—Plant 1—2 
feet high. Stem-l. large, rather strapshaped, clasping.—Fields. 
Introduced with seed. A. VII. VIII. 
2. C. fetida (L.); 1. hairy runcinate-pinnatifid, unopened 
heads nodding, tnvolucre hairy and downy as long as the greatly 
protruded pappus, outer phyll. lanceolate acute downy, marginal 
fr. slightly beaked shorter than the involucre, central ones with 
long beaks equalling it.—E. B. 406.—Root slender, fusiform. 
St. 6—12 in. high, hairy, round, branched. L. mostly radical, 
stem-l. few small lanceolate deeply toothed at the base sessile. 
Heads solitary, terminal, on long simple stalks. Midrib of the 
phyll. at length much thickened and hardened. Ribs of the fr. 
rough.—Chalky places, rare. B. VI. VII. 
** Fruit narrowed upwards or obscurely beaked. 
[3. C. pulchra(L.); outer phyll. ovate short adpressed, 1. downy 
toothed, stem-l. arrowshaped clasping, panicle corymbose, fr. 
about as long as the pappus obsoletely striated slightly attenuated 
upwards.—E. B. 2325.—St. erect, downy. Lower 1. obovate 
runcinately toothed, stem-l. small. Heads small, florets yellow, 
involucre at length thickened. Outer row of fruits often appa- 
rently without pappus.—‘ Hill of Turin near Forfar.” Mr. G. 
Don. A. VI—IX.] 
4. C. virens(L.); outer phyll. adpressed linear inner ones gla- 
brous within, 1. lanceolate remotely dentate runcinate or pinna- 
tifid, uppermost J. lmear-arrowshaped clasping with flat margins, 
st. subcorymbose, fr. shorter than the pappus oblong slightly at- 
tenuated upwards with smooth ribs.—C. tectorum Sm. (not Linn.). 
E. B. 1111.—St. 1—3 feet high. IL. very variable. Florets 
yellow. [C. tectorum (L.) has revolute margined upper 1., phyll. 
downy within, fr. somewhat beaked with scabrous ribs. |—Com- 
mon. A. VJ.—IX.:, 
5. C. biennis (L.); outer phyll. oblong-linear lax inner downy 
within, 1. runcinate-pinnatifid hispid, uppermost 1. lanceolate 
