SCOLYMUS. 
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Suborder III. LIGULIFLORzE DC. (Cichoraceje Vaill., 
Juss. &c.) 
fTribe XXII. Scolymece Less. 
f42. Scoltmus L. 
fl. S. maculatus L. Tigarro, P t0 S to . 
Ann. nearly or quite smooth rigidly and strongly spinous ; 
st. erect straight shortly and almost horizontally branched at 
top, broadly 3-5-spinous-winged throughout ; the wings tri- 
angularly spinous-toothed ; 1. oblong deltoidally or triangularly 
sinuate-lobed or pinnatifid strongly and copiously spinous- 
toothed and serrate with a thickened cartilaginous pale border 
and strong cartilaginous w. nerves and spines, very stiff and 
coriaceous, milky-veined and mottled, the st.-l. broadly decur- 
rent ; heads small terminal aggregate in twos or threes or so- 
litary at the ends of the branches, nearly or quite sessile and 
closely involucrate with mostly 5 large leafy coriaceo-rigid 
pectinatelv spinous erecto-connivent br. with a thickened car- 
tilaginous pale border like the 1. ; scales of inv. all membra- 
nous simple lanceolate feebly cuspidate unarmed entire; 11. 
deep golden or orange-y., tube of the florets clothed with fine 
black woolly hairs, anthers purplish-brown ; ach. broadly winged 
and dimidiatelv crowned at top by their close-adhering mem- 
branous or chaffy coat; pappus 0. — Linn. Sp. 1143: Desf. ii. 
242; Brot. i. 335; Lam. Diet. vii. 12, 111. t. 659. f. 2 ; Pers. ii. 
380 ; DC. vii. 75 ; WB. ii. 387 ; Koch 477 ; Fl. Gr. t. 824 ; Gren. 
et Godr. ii. 390 ; RFG. xix. t. 2. f. i. ; Willk. et Lange ii. 203. 
S. hispanicus Buell ! 194. no. 240 ; DC. ! 1. c. 76 and Willk. et 
Lange 1. c. 204 quoad pi. Mad. (not Linn.). — Herb. ann. Mad. 
reg. 1, Y ; PS. reg. 2, rr. Loo fields and towards the Praia 
abundant as elsewhere here and there along the S. coast, on 
P‘ a de S. Louren^o, &c. ; in PS. in cornfields and sunny barren 
places more rare, and small or dwarfish ; X. ascent of Pico De- 
baixo, Serra or Rib. de Fora, &c. May-July. — A striking 
somewhat handsome thistle-like pi. with its milky-veined or 
marbled rigid harshly prickly foliage and leafy-bracteate but 
not conspicuous y. fl. St. hard stiffly erect w. or pale straw- 
col. broadly and equably spinous-winged uninterruptedly from 
top to bottom, mostly subpubescent downwards, 1-3 ft. high, 
rarely branched except at top, the branches short and spread- 
ing. Stripped of its wings the st. is peculiarly round and even. 
L. 4 or 5 in. long, 1 or 2 broad, remarkably rigid and stiffly 
and strongly spinous, the lobes or divisions deltoidal ; light or 
yellowish gr. varied with milky nerves and sometimes diffuse 
spots or blotches, with their decurrent wings the same. Heads 
4 in. in diam. ydoboselv ovate sessile and embosomed in their 
