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47. COilPOSITACEiE. 
sharper and more prominent than the rest ; all without trace of 
pappus, liecept. densely villous. 
The dried florets are used for colouring or flavouring soups 
and other dishes. The seeds or ach. are said to he a favourite 
food of Parrots or Parakeets. 
§ 2. Anthers caudate or aimed at the base. 
Tribe XXL Carlinece Cass, (partly) . 
40. Carlin a Tournef. 
Sect. 1. Eucarlina Gr. et Godr. Inner scales of inv. radiant. 
1. C. SALICIFOLIA (L. til.). 
Shr. ; 1. linear-lanceolate or lanceolate coriaceous flat with par- 
tially or narrowly and faintly revolute edges, densely and closely 
snowy-tomentose beneath, glabrescent smooth and shining above, 
finely and more or less regularly setaceo-ciliate or spinelloso- 
serrulate especially downwards and at their junction with the 
st., rarely unarmed and entire: br. or apical appendages of 
outer invol. scales leafy spreading ciliato-spinellous, mostly 
longer than the shortly radiant recurved scarious dark-col. inner ; 
fl. terminal solitary subeorymbose or scattered. — WB. ii. 344. 
Carthamus intei/rifolius Sol.! in PH. ; Buch ! 194. no. 243. — 
Varr. or forms : — 
a. spinellosa ; 1. and fl. bracts or appendages more or less co- 
piously and conspicuously setaceo-ciliate or spinelloso-serru- 
late linear-lanceolate acuminato-cuspidate. — Carlina salicifolia 
DC. vi. 548; WB. 1. c. t. 115. Carlowizia salicifolia “ Much. 
Meth. 225 DC. (Ilecueil de Mem. 1813) I)iss. v. Obs. surles 
Compos, ii. 52, t. 11 ; .Tacq. fil. Eclog. i. 12, t. 5; Spr. Syst. iii. 
379. Carthamus salicifolius Pers. ii. 381. Carthamus intetjri- 
f alius (5 and y Sol. ! in 1 >1 1. 
Subv. 1. Heads corymbose numerous. — Carlina salicifolia (3 
cori/mbosa DC. 1. c. 
Subv. 2. Heads few scattered. WB. 1. c. t. 115. 
Shr. per. Mad. reg. 3 and upper part of 2, cc. In all the 
principal ravines on high perpendicular rocks or dills every- 
where. June-Aug. — A straggling shr. 2-4 ft. high subpro- 
liferouslv or corymbosoly branched with long spreading ascend- 
ing nr subpendent still’ woody somewhat brittle flaunting strag- 
gling crooked or subtortuous branches, naked below, leafy and 
snowy tomentose towards the ends. I a snowy- w. beneath, 
dark shining gr. above, crowded or tufted towards the ends of 
