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47. COMPOSITACEJE. 
ped. and furnished at the base with 2-5 spinous leafy br. longer 
than the tufts of heads and similar to the upper st.-l. FI. pur- 
ple rather large and handsome. Scales of the ventricose an- 
thod. gr. slightly cobwebby narrowly ovato-acuminate or li- 
near-lanceolate cuspidate with sharp but not strongly pungent 
spreading subrecurved points. Recept. densely villous, the 
hairs nearly an inch long. Pappus elegantly plumose very ca- 
ducous, hairs 8 or 9 lines long, dilated golden-y. and crumpled 
at the base. Ach. quite smooth and even, uniform plain dull 
dark brown not shining, obliquely obovate and gibbous at the 
back, compressed, 3 lines long, 2 broad, simple and obtusely 
rounded at top; liilum minute oblique ; epigynous disk small ob- 
lique without any crown, border, or central mamilla. 
The fl. are said to be sometimes w. but have not occurred 
so in Mad. 
33. Cirsioi Tournef., DC. 
Sect. Onotrophe Cass., DC. Involucral scales of the globose 
or globosely ovate heads all unarmed or feebly spinulose. 
L. with short feeble marginal spinules. 
1. C. latifolium Lowe. Tangerdo manso. 
Unarmed corymbosely branched upwards ; 1. sessile auricu- 
lato-amplexicaul all undivided broadly elliptic-oblong obtuse 
snowy -floccose-tomentose beneath, glabrescent and shining 
above, spinuloso-ciliate, the lower doubly serrato-crenate, the 
upper entire; heads erect ebracteate solitary terminal remote on 
long leafy fioccose ped. or branches forming a wide lax remotely 
or somewdiat few-fld. cyme, globose or hemispherical hard 
compact nearly naked or glabrescent ; scales coloured unarmed 
acute shortly and feebly mucronulate woolly-ciliate only at the 
edges adpressed, the outer ovate or ovate-oblong, inner linear 
or ligulate. — Prim. p. 28. no. 48 ; DC. ! vi. 653. Car dims lati- 
folius Sol. in BH. ! — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 3, cc. On moist 
steep banks and perpendicular rocks in the principal ravines 
abundantly ; Rib. de S ta Luzia at the Waterfall, R. da Metade, 
de Fayal, de S. Jorge, da Boa Ventura, Serra d’Agua under 
Pico Grande, &c. June-Aug. — Very distinct from its near ally 
C. heterophyllum (L.). Root subfasciculate, the divisions fleshy 
tap-shaped whitish like young parsnips several as thick as the 
fore finger, sweetish and not unpleasant to the taste, and when 
boiled firmer but resembling in taste the tubers of .1 erusalem Arti- 
chokes ( Hi lianthus tubcrosus L.). St. single corymbosely branched 
upwards only, 2-3 ft. high, erect round firm fistulose striated, 
about as thick as the little linger, hard and very tough, cottony 
upwards, leafy throughout, dividing upwards into mostly 3 or 
