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sUm-l. not decurrent few clasping, inv. globose solitary terminal 
slightly cottony, phyll. lanceolate-attenuate adpressed mucro- 
nate, rhizome creeping.— ^. Jl. 177. C'/r.s. anglicnm DC. — 8t. 
1 — 2 feet high, cottony, usually (luite 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 i — 3-fid lobes, not pinnatitid, fringed with small but 
unequal prickles, lower 1. stalked. Occasionally there are 2 or 3 
11. on a stem. C. Forsteri (Sm.) is probably a hybrid between 
this and C. j)nlust7-i<. 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. t. 
U. C. tuherimni (L.) ; 1. lanceolate deeply pinnatitid pilose 
above haiiy 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, phyll. lanceolate inucro- 
iiate adpressed, root of elliptic tapering fieshy fihres. — E. B. 2562. 
Cir. hidbosum DC, Koch. — Xot 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. Woodwardii (Wats.) 
much resembles this, and may be a hybrid between C. acaidis 
and C. prratensis. Sy. E. B. 696. — Greatridge Wood near 
Boyton, and at Avebury, Wilts. P. VIII. IX. E. 
10. (J . acaidis (L.) ; I. glabrous radical lanceolate pinnatifid, 
lobes subtrifid spinous, inv. ovoid glabrous nearly sessile mostly 
solitary, outer phyll. ovate inner ones gradually longer adpressed, 
root with filiform fibres.— E. B. 161. .S"*. 24. 16.— St. usually 
almost wanting ; sometimes 3 — 12 in. long, leafy, woolly. L. 
all stalked, glabrous except a few hairs on the ribs beneath. 
Heads very large, fl. crimson. — ,3. C. dubius (Willd.) ; st. much 
branched woolly a foot or more in height. Willd. Fl. Berol. 
f. 11. Perhaps a hybrid between this and C. arvensis. — Dry cal- 
careous pastures. ,3. Saffron Walden, Essex. Jfr. G. S. Gibson. 
P. VII.— IX. Grouml-Thistle. E. 
11. C. heterophyl'lus (L.) ; I. clasping not decurrent glabrous 
above white atul downy beneath lanceolate serrate fringed with 
mimde p^-ickles, root-1. vdth long stalks clasping at the base, 
heads ovoid truncate below slightly downy, phyll. ovate or 
lanceolate acuminate adpressed. — E. B. 675. — Creeping. St. 
3 — 4 feet high, furrowed, cottony, slightly branched above. 
Heads large and handsome. L. very large, undivided or laci- 
niate. — C. Carolornm (Jenn. in Edin. Bot. Tr. ix. 257) seems to 
