496 
47. COMPOSITACE-E. 
Suborder II. CAPITIFLOILE. (Cynarocepiial^: Vaill., 
Juss. &c.) 
§ 1. Anthers ecaudate or aivnless at the base. 
Tribe XVII. Silybea Less. 
29. Galactites Much. 
1. G. tomentosa Mnch. Cardo. 
The only sp. — Pers. ii. 488 ; DC. ! vi. 616; Seub. FI. Az. 32 ; 
WB. ii. 381 ; Gren. et Godr. ii. 202; EFG. xv. t. 88. f. i. ; 
Vilik. et Lange FI. Ilisp. ii. 200. Centaurea galactites Linn. Sp. 
1300 ; Lam. Enc. i. 677 ; Cav. Ic. iii. 16, t. 231 ; Desf. ii. 303 : 
Brot. i. 372. Cardans galactites Bucli ! 194. no. 246. — Herb, 
ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, 3, ccc ; PS. reg. 1-4, ccc. GD. reg. 2, ccc. 
Cornfields, waste and cult, ground, banks, roadsides, beds of 
ravines and mountain pastures everywhere, a universal and 
abundant weed, forming a great part of the fodder collected for 
cattle. Apr.- June, but also partially from Febr. to Nov. — 
Habit entirely of a Thistle ( Cardans or Cnicus ). St. ^-2 ft. 
high but usually 9-18 in., strongly ribbed and angular, hollow 
cottony erect branched upwards. L. narrow-oblong or ligu- 
late cottony- w. beneath, dark gr. (especially when growing more 
luxuriantly in moist or rich soil), above glabrescent or cob- 
webby with milky veins, pinnatipartite or runcinato-pinnati- 
sect, the divisions toothed and finely acuminato-spinous, tri- 
angular-lanceolate, the st.-l. subauriculately amplexicaul and 
the upper more or less decurrent ; the spines y. not strongly 
pungent. Heads terminal solitary or 2 or 3 together, about 
£-1 in. in diam. the scales subcoriaceous ovato -lanceolate pro- 
duced into finely acuminato-subulate or linear-cuspidate sharply 
pungent erecto-patent spines transversely or interlacingly cob- 
webby or cottony at tire base. FI. conspicuous loosely sub- 
radiant light purple or lilac rarely w. sweet-scented and often 
in the mountains perfuming the air like Lilac-fl. Ach. small 
pale testaceous or light yellowish drab, with 10 darker longi- 
tudinal fine lines or striohe, very smooth and shining as if ena- 
melled, 2 lines long, ^-| line broad ; epigynous disk with an 
entire raised tumid ring, crown or border enclosing an oval 
hollow with a central permanent large erect truncate promi- 
nent mamilla. 
0. • crinita ; upper 1. simple undivided nearly or quite un- 
armed and entire linear-elongate flagelliform produced into 
long narrow finely acuminate curled or recurved points. — A 
very singular state or var. with long linear upper and floral 1. 
tortuously curled or dishevelledly entangled and only about 
