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into long strong cuspidate sliarp spines. FI. deep lavender or 
indigo-blue turning purple in drying, rarely w., with a strong 
fragrance like honey or the fh of Scabiosa atropurpurea L. 
Stigmas very long (6-8 lines) exserted slender filiform distinctly 
separate or bifid at the tip. Ripe ach. not seen. 
The main rib of the 1. and even the still more bitter large 
strong thick and blackish roots are eaten raw by the poor half- 
starved shepherd boys of C animal and P t0 S t0 . 
Nothing can be more different in aspect than the present pi. 
and its presumed derivative by cult., the garden-Cardoon or 
broad-leaved unarmed var. /3 DC. (BM. t. 2862, and I may add 
BM. t. 3241), which has the broad segm. of the 1. merely feebly 
and inconspicuously mucronulate and the involucral scales 
shortly and obtusely pointed but not elongately spinose. The 
common garden- Artichoke (C. Scolymus L.) is also probably 
merely another cult, form of the same pi. It is occasionally 
cultivated in Mad. 
f32. Notobasis Cass. 
fl. N. SYBIACA (L.). 
The only sp. — DC. vi. 660 ; WB. ii. 379 ; Gren. et Godr. ii. 
207 ; Willk. et Lange Fl. Hisp. ii. 182. Carduus syriacus 
Linn. ! Sp. 1153 ; Lam. Enc. i. 702 ; Desf. ii. 245,- Pers. ii. 389. 
Cnicus syriacus Brot. i. 342 ; Fl. Gr. t. 831. Cirsium syriacum 
Gartn., Spr. iii. 877. Carduus lacteus syriacus Cam. Moris, iii. 
155. § 7, t. 30. f. 5. Acarna minor Sfc. CBP. Moris, iii. 161. 
§ 7, t. 34. f. 5. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, r. P ta de Sao 
Louren^o about the I’iedade amongst cornfields in waste ground 
and on sunny barren slopes, as also halfway between Funchal 
and Cani^o above the Brazen Head ; P ta do Pargo at the extreme 
point on Pico das Favas. May, June. — A fine but formidablv 
and ferociously prickly pi. St. single 1-3 or 4 ft, high straight 
erect virgate simple or with only short side fl. -branches above 
the middle, ribbed or striated and slightly cottony or cobwebby. 
L. lanceolate-oblong stiff waved and sinuato-pinnatifid strongly 
and copiously spinous, smooth or glabrescent and shining above, 
bright gr. with w. milky veins and furry-cobwebby beneath ; 
st. 4. auriculate sessile or semiamplexicaul not decurrent, the 
upper pinnatipartite or reduced almost to their nerves and 
spines, the latter very strong and pungent pale brown 2-3-nate 
and forked or divaricate. Heads ^—1 in. in diam. agglomerate 
2 or 3 together at the ends of the short side branches, °3 or 4 or 
more crowded at top of the main st,, each on its own short 
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