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rows imbricately shorter truncate, the inner longer acuminate, 
all erecto-patent flat ligulate or linear with the edges very 
minutely ciliato-serrulate ; innermost row very short pale or 
whitish 2 millim. or | line long erect and connivent into a 
little central cone one line high. Becept. conic densely hir- 
sute with shining pale or whitish linear acuminate flat chaffy 
hairs a little longer than the ach. which differ much from 
MM. Grenier and Godron’s description of them in their pi. 
f 38. Cardotcellus Adans. 
fl. C. cjeruleus (L.). 
Unarmed or feebly spinellous slightly cobwebby and more or 
less furry-pubescent; st. erect or ascending mostly simple 1- 
lid. leafy ; 1. shining full gr. often glabrescent stiff and coriaceous 
strongly nerved mostly undivided sharply and unequally spi- 
nuloso-subpinnatifld or inciso-serrate, the lower oblong-oval or 
elliptic stalked, the upper oblong-lanceolate sessile amplexi- 
caul ; heads large solitary globosely ovate or ovoidal bracteated 
bv the stift‘ gr. foliaceous erecto-patent sharply mucronato- 
pungent and spinuloso-serrate reticulately nerved apical ap- 
pendages of the lowest one or two rows of the invol. scales 
resembling the upper st.-l. ; the inner scales pale brown or 
straw-col. oblong or ligulate hard coriaceous parallelly many- 
nerved with a rounded-spatliulate or lunate dark brown scari- 
ous pectinately fringed or lacerately toothed or ciliate apical 
appendage ; fl. blue ; erecto-connivent inner row of pappus not 
less than half the length of the outer rows. — DC. vi. 615 ; 
Willk. et Lange ii. 135. Carthamus cceruleus Linn. Sp. (ed. 
1 ) 830 ; Lam. Diet. i. 638 ; WB. ii. 368. Carduus ccerideus 
Brot. i. 342. Onobroma cceruleum Spr. Syst. iii. 392. Kentro- 
phyllum cceruleum Gren. et Godr. ii. 264. — Forms or varr. : — 
a. dentatus DC. 1. c. ; 1. undivided inciso-serrate. Ccirthamiis 
ccerideus Linn. Sp. (ed. 2) 1163; Desf. ii. 256; Pers. ii. 381. 
no. 13 ; BM. t. 2293 ; Buch ! 194. no. 244 ; WB. ! 1. c. ; Fl. Gr. 
t. 843. Carduus Cnici facie &c. Moris. Hist. iii. § 7, t. 33. 
f. 18 and t. 34. f. 19. 
ft. incisus DC. 1. c. ; lower 1. pinnatipartite. — Carthamus tin - 
rjitanus Linn. Sp. (ed. 2) 1163; Desf. ii. 256; Cav. Ic. ii. 24, 
1. 128; Pers. ii. 381. no. 12. Carthamus ccerideus ft Lam. l.c. ; 
WB. 1. c; Willk. et Lange 1. c. Atractilis ccerulea incisis foliis 
hisp. Ban*. Ic. t. 591. 
Herb. per. Mad. reg. 1, 2, r ; PS. reg. 2, £. Waste rocky 
places amongst cornfields and by roadsides at S. Martinho, in 
the Loo fields near Funchal, Carreira de S ,ft Catarina between 
S ta Cruz and Machico &c. in strong red clay soil ; P t0 S*° in 
cornfields towards the Fonte d’Ar^a, &c. more general. May-* 
