510 
47. COMPOSITACE-E. 
beyond S ta Cruz. (The PS. pi. is not quite certain, having 
been found in May with root-leaves only.) June-Aug — 
PI. 2-4 ft. high growing dispersedly or solitary ; sparingly and 
stragglingly branched with a tall erect main stem and long 
slender angular stiffly divergent erecto-patent mostly undivided 
1-fld. side branches, inconspicuously leafy, naked and quite 
smooth upwards. Root not creeping simple fleshy large strong 
long and thick black or blackish. Root-1. lyrate or runcinate 
(rarely toothed only or entire) 3 or 4 in. long and 1 in. broad, 
hoary dull gr., subviscid furry-pubescent ; the upper smooth, 
gradually reduced upwards to inconspicuous linear toothed or 
entire br. St. smooth erect, soon branching into several very 
long slender straight divergent spreading or straggling smooth 
1-fl. ped. clothed with short linear br. a good way up. FI. 
buds depresso-splieroidal. FI. rather handsome and conspicu- 
ous on long naked terminal ped., bright gay purple or rose-lilac, 
about an inch in diam. Scales very closely compressed bright 
gr. tipped and edged with dark purple and with or without a 
pale brown very short inconspicuous caducous not pungent 
spinule at the tip; forming singularly hard neat-looking com- 
pact or solid heads about 6-8 lines long and 5 or 6 in diam. 
Acli. oblong compressed smooth elegantly ribbed longitudinally 
and punctato-rugulose between the ribs or stride, dark brown 
streaked or mottled with pale drab ; hilum with a prominent 
callous ivory-like tumid rim or border. Outer pappus of many 
short rough simple unequal pale brownish setae ; inner concrete 
into a ring with one side produced into an erect narrow-acumi- 
nate scale as long as or longer than the outer pappus. Re- 
cept. densely shaggy with smooth pale brownish w. hairs. 
tTribe XX. Carthamea DC. 
t37. KENTRoriiYLLUM Neck. 
tl. K. LANATUM (L.). 
Ann. strongly and sharply spinous glandular-pubescent cob- 
webby and viscid ; st. erect still' simple virgate subimbricately 
leafy corymbosely and proliferously branched at top ; 1. spinoso- 
pinnatifid, the radical lyrato-pinnatipartite, the st.-l. approxi- 
mate strongly nerved rigid subcordato-lanceolate amplexicaul 
acuminately spinoso-cuspidate and pectinntely spi nous-gashed 
or toothed ; heads rather large solitary terminal proliferously 
corymbose radiately leafy-spinous; scales cobwebby pale gr. 
or whitish nerveless coriaceous, the outer with a long gr. leaf- 
like spreading ensiform pungently acuminato-cuspidate and 
pectinatelv ciliato-spinous rigid apical appendage which is re- 
duced in the oblong-lanceolate inner scales to a short cuspidate 
