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1). JAmb of the cor. b-parted to its middle. 
7. C. palustris [\j.) ■, /. t^ecurmiMaiiceolatc deeply i)innatifid 
spinose, involueres ovate elustered : scales ovate-lanceolate ad- 
])ressed mueronate. — E. B. 97-1. — St. solitary, ereet, 3 — 5 feet 
lii'^li, wandlike, with wavy sjnnose wings throughout, slightly 
hranehed. Heads in a terminal elnster. Florets purjde or white. 
Under side of the 1. usually eottony. Involuere with a slight 
web. — Wet meadows. A. VII. VIH. 
8. ? C. For.steri ; 1. slightly decurrent lanceolate all jnnnatifid 
sjnnose eottony beneath : lobes bifid or slightly palmate, in- 
volncres 2 or d together ovate terminating the stem and hranehes 
slightly cottony ; scales lanceolate attenuated adj)ressed mucro- 
nate, ca>spitose. — Cnicus Forsteri Sm. — I believe this is a hybrid 
j)lant. — St. ‘.i — 4 feet high, nearly simj)le or panicled above, an- 
gular, furroued, not winged, slightly cottony, several together 
from the erou ii of the root, not stoloniferous. L. half-elasping, 
lower tapering into a footstalk ; intermediate narrowed down- 
wards, sessile, a little decurrent ; u|)per gradually smaller ; all 
cottony beneath and slightly j)ilose above, their lobes with j)ro- 
minent lanceolate segments often accompanied by several smaller 
ones, or shallow with 2 rather prominent points. In a specimen 
from the county of Mayo the 1. are not at all decurrent. — Boggy 
places. P. VII. VIII. E. I. 
9. C. pratensis (Iluds.); 1. mostly radical lanceolate wavy or 
lobed jiilose above cottony beneath fringed with minute prickles, 
stem 1. not decurrent few clasj)ing, involucres globose solitary ter- 
minal slightly cottony : scales lanceolate-attenuated adpressed 
mueronate, root stoloniferous. — E. B. 177- — St. 1 — 2 feet high, 
cottony, usually quite simj)le and single-headed, leafless in the 
upj)er 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 pinnatifld as 
in the preceding. — This is the Cir. anglicum (Lam.) DC., Koch, 
but Hudson ajipears to have been its first describer in modern 
times. — Boggy meadows. P. VI. — VIII. 
10. C. tuberosus {h.) ; 1. lanceolate deejfly pinnatifld pilose 
above hairy or slightly cottony beneath fringed with minute 
prickles, stem 1. sessile not decurrent : lobes 2 — 3-fid, involucres 
ovate terminal 1 — 3 together slightly cottony : scales lanceolate 
mueronate adpressed, root of elliptical tapering fleshy fibres. — 
E. B. 2562. Cir. bulbosum DC., Koch. — St. 2 feet high, erect, 
round, liaiiy, leafless above the middle w'ith a few minute bracts. 
Lower 1. stalked, stem 1. nearly or quite sessile. — Great-ridge 
Wood near Boyton, Wilts. P. VIII. IX. E. 
