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ately lobed slightly wavy decurrent with an interrupted wavy 
spinous wing, u|)permost nearly sessile, lobes obtuse fringed with 
strong equal spines, in other respects like the type. I know not 
where to place this plant except as a remarkable variety of C. ar- 
Vensis. Is it a distinct species? — Fields and road-sides. /3. 
Croxall, Derbyshire. P. VII. fi. IX. Creeping Thistle. 
7. C. palustris (L.) ; I. decurrent lanceolate deeply pinnatifid 
spinose, involucres ovate clustered : scales ovate-lanceolate ad- 
pressed mucronate. — E. B. 974. — St. solitary, erect, 3 — 5 feet 
high, wandlike, with wavy spinose wings throughout, slightly 
branched. Heads in a terminal cluster. Florets purple or white. 
Under side of the 1. usually cottony. Involucre with a slight 
web. — Wet meadows. A. VII. VIII. 
8. C. Forsteri; I. slightly decurrent lanceolate all pinnatifid 
spinose cottony beneath : lobes bifid or slightly palmate, in- 
volucres 2 or 3 together ovate terminating the stem and branches 
slightly cottony : scales lanceolate attenuated adpressed mucro- 
nate, cmspitose. — Cnicus Forsteri Sm. — -St. 3 — 4 feet high, nearly- 
simple or panicled above, angular, furrowed, not winged, slightly 
cottony, several together from the crown of the root, not stolo- 
niferous. L. half clasping, lower tapering into a footstalk ; in- 
termediate narrowed downwards, sessile, a little decurrent ; upper 
gradually smaller ; all cottony beneath and slightly pilose above, 
their lobes with prominent lanceolate segments often accompanied 
by several smaller ones, or shallow with 2 rather prominent 
points. A specimen from the county of Mayo agrees with this 
plant in all points except that the 1. are not at all decurrent. — 
Boggy places. P. VII. VIII. E. L 
9. C. pratensis (Huds.) ; I. mostly radical lanceolate wavy or 
lobed pilose above cottony beneath fringed with minute prickles, 
stem I. not decurrent few clasping, involucres globose solitary ter- 
minal slightly cottony : scales lanceolate-attenuated adpressed 
mucronate, root stoloniferous . — E. B. 177. — 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 
suckers. L. broad, soft, sinuate-dentate, rarely with small 
2 — 3-fid lobes, fringed with small but unequal prickles, lower 1. 
stalked. Occasionally there are 2 or 3 fl. on a stem, but the 
stem 1. are always soft and wavy at the edges, not pinnatifid as 
in the preceding. — This is the Cir. anglicum (Lam.) DC, Koch, 
but Hudson appears to have been its first describer in modern 
times. — Boggy meadows. P. VI.— VIII. 
10. C. tuberosus (L.) ; 1. lanceolate deeply pinnatifid pilose 
above hairy or slightly cottony beneath fringed with minute 
prickles,, stem I. sessile not decurrent : lobes 2 — 3-fid, involucres 
ovate terminal 1 — 3 together slightly cottony : scales lanceolate 
