192 
45. cojirosiTiE. 
miicronate, rliizome creeping. — E. B. 177. CIr. ang1icim\ Lam. 
— St. 1 — 2 feet liigli, cottony, iisualh' quite .simple and sing-le- 
headed, leafless in the upper half with afew .scaly bracts, springing 
singly from the rhizome. Ij. broad, soft, sinuate-dentate, rarely 
with small 2 — 3-fid lobes, not pinnatifid, fringed with small but 
unequal prickles, lower 1. stalked. Occasionally there are 2 or .3 
fl. on a stem. — C. Forsteri (Sm.) is a hybrid between this and 
C. palustris, having 1. slightly decurrent lanceolate all pinnatifid 
spinous cottony beneath, st. panicled, inv. ovate slightly cottony, 
loot cJEspitose producing several stems. — Boggy meadows. P. 
9. C. tuherdsiis (L.) ; 1. lanceolate deeply pinnatifid pilose 
above hairy or slightly cottony beneath fringed with minute 
prickles, stcm-l. sessile not dvcnrreid, lobes 2 — ;5-fid, involucres 
ovate terminal 1 — 3 together slightly cottony, phyll. lanceolate 
mucronate adpressed, root of ellijjtic tapering Jleshi/ fibres. — 
B. B. 2562. Cir. btdboswn DC, Koch.— St. 2 feet high, erect, 
round, hairy, leafless above the middle with a few minute bracts. 
Lower 1. stalked, stem-1. nearly or quite sessile. — Great-ridge 
Wood near Boyton, and at Aveburv, "Wilts. Mav be a hvbrid 
between Sp. 2 and 10. (See Ci/b. Brit. iii. 455.) " P. VIII. IX. 
E. 
10. C. acm'dis (L.) ; /. f/labrom radical lanceolate pinnatifid, 
lobes subtrifid spinose, involucre ovate glabrovis nearly sessile 
mostly solitary, outer phyll. ovate inner ones gradually longer 
adpressed, root with Jilifo'rm Jibres. — S. B. 161. St. 24. 16. — St. 
generally wanting; sometimes ;? — 12 in. long, leafy, woollv. L. all 
stalked, glabrous except a few hairs upon the ribs beneath. 
Heads veiy large, fl. crimson.— ^. C. diibiifs ( Willd.) ; st. nuich 
branched woolly a foot or more in height. Willd. Fl. Berol. 
f. 11. Perhaps a hybrid between this and C. arvetisis. — Dry 
calcareous pastures. ^. Saftron AValden, Essex. Mr. G. S. Gibsmi. 
11. C. heterophyl'his (L.) ; clasping not dentrrent glabrous 
above white and dovng beneath lanceolate serrate fringed with 
minnte jmcldes, root-1, with long stalks clasping at the base, in- 
volucres ovate slightly do^vny, phyll. ovate or lanceolate acumi- 
nate adpressed. — E. B. 675.— C'reeping. St. 4 feet hidi, fur- 
rowed, cottony, slightly branched abo^ e. Heads large and hand- 
some. L. very large, undivided or laciniate. — Moist mountain 
pastures. P.Vn.Vm. E. S. L 
Sections. SILYBEJE. Filaments monadelphous. Pappus 
in many rows. 
31. Si'LiBUM Oaert. Milk Thistle. 
tl. &OT«!n<im«n(Gaert.).— Carrft«MSm.,j&.jB.976.— St .3—4 
E.L 
E. 
