502 
47. compositacej:. 
pungent erecto-patent spine, the inner finely acuminate not 
spinous as long as or longer than the fits. ; coloured limb of cor. 
as long as the tube ; hairs of pappus equal or simple not cla- 
vate. — Curt. FI. Lond. vi. t. 55 ; EB. 412 ; Pers. ii. 385 ; Hook. 
FI. Sc. i. 236 ; Sm. E. FI. iii. 385 ; Spr. Syst. iii. 385 ; DC. vi. 
626 (var. a) ; Koch 459 ; Seub. FI. Az. 33 ; Coss. et Germ. ii. 
386 ; Bab. 188 ; Gren. et Godr. ii. 226 ; RFG. xv. t. 134. f. i. ; 
Willk. et Lange FI. Hisp. ii. 195. C. pt/cnocephalus Buch ! 
194. no. 247 ; WB. ii. 377 (excl. plerisque syn.) ; Benth. Handb. 
1. 463, f. 553 (not Linn. ). — Herb. ann. Mad. and PS. reg. 1, 2, 
3, ccc ; not seen in any of the Desertas. Roadsides, borders of 
cornfields and waste ground everywhere especially below 2000 
ft,, yet also very near the highest summit of Pico Grande above 
5000 ft. mostly growing gTegariously in beds. March-Aug. — 
A low branched leafy but neither conspicuous nor strongly 
armed thistle, with small cylindric fi. -heads. Foliage dull 
leaden greyish rather large and copious especially at the base 
of the st. which is rarely more than 1 or 2 ft, high branched 
and broadly spinous-winged quite up to the top. L. broad in 
proportion to their length, the lower about 6 in. long, 3 in. broad, 
the lobes as broad as deep spinellously toothed, spines all fine 
slender weak and feebly pungent. Heads about | in. long and 
j in. broad, smooth or very slightly cobwebby, their scales spi- 
niform but not pungent. Fits. 10-20 varying from pale pink 
or rose to purple rarely w. Scales of inv. slightly cobwebby 
at the base but without any golden glands or dots. Ach. ob- 
long compressed 3^-4 mill, long, 14-1 f broad, smooth shining 
viscous, pale yellowish-drab or fulvous, finely lineolate lon- 
gitudinally with dusky lines, not ribbed or striate. Margin 
of epig. disk prominent entire. Pappus 3 times the length of 
ach. 
2. C. squarrosus (DC.). 
Unarmed, shortly and feebly spinellous ; st. and branches 
narrowly spinellously subsinuately winged throughout and cob- 
webby ; 1. decurrent undivided narrow-oblong shallowly dupli- 
cato-serrate and thinly and shortly ciliato-spinellous, hoary- 
tomentose beneath, above furfuraceo-pustulate or fiocculoso- 
glabrescent ; heads sessile agglomerate in terminal 1-2-brac- 
teate tufts or masses, campanulate or semiovate, smooth or 
naked ; scales unarmed, the outer squarrosely recurved broadly 
scarious ovate or ovate-oblong strongly ribbed acute and mu- 
cronate or acuminate, the inner erect straight ligulate or linear 
with scarious acute tips, longer than the fits., the limb of which 
is equal to the tube ; hairs of pappus partly clavulate. — Novit. 
540 or 18. Clavena squamosa DC. vi. 633. — Herb. ann. Mad. 
reg. 3 (occasionally 1 ), it. Moist rocks or shady banks in 
ravines, e. g. Rib. de S ,ft Luzia, Rib. da Metade, Serra d’Agua, 
