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46. COMPOSITE. 
about covering the pappus, margin of the outer lanceolate acute 
scales and the hracts the back of the inner scales and the ]>ed. 
hispid with rigid simple bristles. — DC. Icon. Gall. t. 19. — Plant 
1 — 2 feet high. Stem 1. large, rather strajishaped, clasping. — 
Cidtivated land. Introduced with seed. Esse.x, Herts., Hants., 
Fife. A. VII. VIII.] E. S. 
.'I. C. feetida (L.); 1. hairy runcinate-pinnatifid, unopened 
heads nodding, involucre hairy and downy as long as the greatly 
protruded pappus its outer scales lanceolate acute downy, mar- 
ginal 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 1. few small lanceolate deeply toothed at the base sessile. 
Heads solitary, terminal, on long simple stalks. Mitb'ib of the 
involucral scales at length much thickened and hardened. Ribs 
of the fr. rough. — Chalky places, rare. B. VI. VII. E. 
** Fruit narrowed upwards or obscurely beaked. 
4. C.pulchra{h.); outer involucral scales ovate short adpress- 
ed, 1. downy toothed, stem 1. arrowshaped clas])ing ; 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 1. small. Heads 
small, florets yellow, involucre at length thickened. Outer row 
of fruits often aj)j)iirentlv without [)appus. — “ Hill of Turin near 
Forfar.” Mr. G.Do«. A. VI.— IX. S. 
5. C. virens (L.); outer involucral scales adpressed linear inner 
ones glabrous within, 1. lanceolate remotely dentate runcinate or 
piunatifid, uppermost 1. linear-arrowsha])ed clas])ing with flat 
margins, st. subeorymbose, fr. shorter than the pappus oblong 
slightly attenuated upwards with smooth ribs. — C. tectorum Sm., 
not Linn., E. B. 1111. — St. 1 — 3 feet high. L. very variable. 
Florets yellow. The true C. tectorum (L.) has revolute margins 
to its upper 1., the inner side of the involucral scales downy, its 
fr. somewhat beaked and with scabrous ribs. It has not been 
found in Britain. — Common. A. VI. — IX. 
6. C. biennis {h.) ; outer involucral scales oblong-linear lax 
inner downy within, 1. runcinate-pinnatifid hispid, uppermost 1. 
lauceolatc clasping dentate-j)innatifid, st. subeorymbose, fr. ob- 
long slightly attenuated upwards with smooth ribs and about as 
long as the papj)us. — E. B. 149? (excluding the fruit.) — St. 1 — 3 
feet high, hispid, nearly leafless above, branched in a corymbose 
manner. Heads large, florets yellow. Angles of fr. often rough. 
L. radical and extending half-way up the stem. — Chalky places, 
rare? B. VI. VII. E. 
