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lucres usually rather woolly ; phj'll. pale, witli dark acute mem- 
branous pectinate decurrent appendages; teeth paler, short, not 
longer than | the width of the phyllary. Fl. purple, outer row 
radiant or 0. — In a plant from " Camouctie, Fife," the inv. is 
quite covered by the appendages, not showing any of the pale 
portion. It may be C. Kotschjdna Koch. — Fields and hedges. 
P. VII. — IX. Great Enaptcevd. MatfelloH. E. S. I. 
[C panictduta (L.) ; phyll. erect adpressed rigid with subidate 
teeth and a short term, rigid point innennost naiTOW long toothed 
at the end, pappus much shorter than the fruit, lower 1. pinna- 
tifid with linear segments. — R. xv. 780. — -St. about a foot high, 
panicled above, rough, rather cottony. Heads cylindric-oblong. 
Fl. purplish. — Quenvais, Jei-sey. B. YII.] 
•** Phyll. homy at the end, spines palmate or pinnate. 
J4. C. soktitidlis (L.) ; phyll woolly palmately spinous, central 
spine of the intermediate ones very long needle-shaped,, inner 
ones with a roimdish scarious appendage, heads termi)tal solitaiy, 
St. winged with the decurrent bases of the linear-lanceolate entire 
hoary leaves, root-1. lycaXe.—E. B. 24.3.— St. 1—2 feet high, 
branched, spreading. Involucres sometimes glabrous. FL 
yellow. — Cultivated land, probably introduced. A. \TL. — IX. 
Yelloiv Star-thistle. E. 
5. C. Calcitrdpa (L.) ; phyll. glahrmts palmately spinous, cen- 
tral spine strong channeled, innermost phyll. with a scarious blunt 
appendage, heads lateral sessile solitary, pappus 0, 1. deeply 
pmnatifid, lobes of the root-1. lanceolate toothed, of the stem-L 
linear. — U. £. 125. — St. furrowed, slightly hairy, branched, 
spreading, about a foot high. Fl. purplish.— Gravelly and sandy 
places. A. VII. VILE Common Star-thistle. E. 
[C. Isnar'di (L.) ; phyll. palmately spinous, spines nearly 
equal .3 — 5, innermost phyU. with a scarious blunt lanceolate or 
slightly spathulate appendage, heads terminal solitary, pappus of 
all the fr. in several rows, /. linear coarsely toothed naiTowed 
below sessile rough, lower ones (and those of the primaiy stem ?) 
broader incise-dentate with clasping auricles. — E. B. 2256. — St. 
procumbent, with long slender simple leafy branches each tenni- 
nated by a solitary head. L. mostly linear, slightly toothed or 
entire. — Fl. purple. — Distinguished from C. aspera only by its 
simple upper leaves. — Guernsey. P. VII. VIII.] 
[C. Sahnan'tica (L.) is said to have been foimd in Jersey 
with C. paniculata, but I have not seen specimens of it.] 
Section 4. CARDUINEjE. Pleads many-flowered ; flowers 
