CARDBUS. 
501 
4-6 or 7 simple leafy 1-fld. branches rising candelabra-like to 
nearly the same level. L. large ample dark or full shining gr. 
above, snowy cottony and powdery beneath, the lower 12 or 15 
in. long and 5 or 6 broad attenuated downwards into a fleshy 
winged broa 1 flattened petiole, those of the st. broadly cor- 
dato-auriculate and half amplexicaul but not decurrent, the 
lower with regularly and equably doub v sinuato-crenate mar- 
gins fringed with soft forward-pointing short spinescent setules, 
the upper entire. FI. pale bright purple not unlike those of 
Centaurea Scabiosa L., the heads 1-1^ in. in diam. depressedly 
globose in bud, very hard and shining or naked with compactly 
imbricate more or less dark v. or purple obsoletely,l -nerved 
scales with entire floccosely woolly edges and a minute apical 
soft mucro. FI. all perfect not radiant. Anthers linear with 
very narrow acuminate basal teeth, filam. glanduloso-pubescent. 
Tube of fits, long and slender swollen upwards ; limb in 5 deep 
narrow linear stellate segm. about half the length of the upoer 
swollen part of the tube. Style exserted long simple slender 
cylindric smooth, lilac upwards. Recept. not fleshy densely 
chaTy-setose with long silky w. soft flattened hairs. Pappus 
silky w. plumose in all the seeds. Ach. large compressed 
smooth even. 
The roots of this pi. might possibly become by cultivation 
useful as an esculent, and would prove serviceable even in the 
wild pi. in times of scarcity. But they are wholly unnoticed 
and neglected by the country-people. 
It is remarkable that, although two fair Mad. spec, from 
Masson (1777) of this fine and abundant pi. have long existed 
in the BH., it is entirely omitted in Von Buch’s and all other 
lists of Mad. sp. It does not occur in either the Canaries or 
Azores. 
34. Carduus L. 
tl. C. TENUIFLORUS Curt. 
Feebly but copiously armed or spinellous, st. and branches 
broadly and spinellously sinuate- winged throughout; 1. decur- 
rent broadly sinuato-pinnatitid, spinellously toothed, pubescent, 
dull hoary or greyish gr., cobwebby-whitish beneath, some- 
times milky-veined above ; heads caducous cvlindric-oblong 
small few-fld. sessile aggregate several or mostly more than 
2 or 3 together in small close terminal tufts or cymes at 
the ends of the branches intermixed with spinellous leafy br. 
shorter than themselves ; scales loosely imbricate erecto-patent 
nearly smooth pale gr. or v.-purple with very narrow scarious 
edges, gradually acuminate into a finely subulate weak not 
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