440 200. Bennettia. 39. COMPOSITE B. PI. ex. cal. 
XXV. 200. BENNETTIA. Thistle- gentle. 
Pericline ovate, cylindrical; scales imbricate, ovate, lan- 
ceolate, blunt ; flowers all hermaphrodite; cimanthus chaffy; 
chaffs lanceolate, as long as the pericline; pappus feather- 
like; rays equal, persisting. — Root woody perennial ; stem 
mostly simple; root-leaves petioled; upper leaves sessile, 
ovate, not spinous, woolly; calathides corymbose, upright; 
Coro lice purple. 
Messieurs Edward and John Bennett, surgeons and 
apothecaries of London, who devote the whole of their 
leisure to the study of botany and natural history, and 
have kindly given their assistance to this work. 
Bennettia alpha. Alpine this tie- gentle. 
Leaves ovate, lanceolate, slender at the base,„ toothed, 
nappy beneath ; pericline coloured, villous. 
Cirsium humile montanum cynoglossi folio, polyanthemum, Raii Syn. 
193,3. 
Carduus mollis foliis lapathi, Ger.em. 1184. 
Serratula alpina, Lin. S. P . 1145. , 
Cirsium alpinum, De Candolle FI. Gall. 3095. 
Rock-leaved tkistle-gentle. 
Apine rocks; perennial; July and August. 
Stem round, woolly ; leaves rather bald above; calathides 
nearly umbellate, large; anthers blue. 
0. cynoglossifolia . Leaves linear, lanceolate, long. 
Cirsium montanum polyanthemum salicis folio angusto denticulate, Raii 
Syn. 193, 4. 
y. discolor. Root-leaves ovate, nearly heartshape. 
Serratula discolor, Willd. S. P. 1639. 
XXVI. 201. CARLINA. Bodonseus. Carline- thistle. 
Bractece many, weak, pinnate-spinous; pericline cylin- 
drical ; scales linear, cartilaginous, shining, coloured, ra- 
diating; flowers all hermaphrodite; filaments very short, quite 
bald; anthers with two long horns at the base; clinanthus 
concave, chaffy; chaffs below membranaceous, keeled, not 
cut; above bristlelike, many-cut, as long as the pericline; 
akenium with a chaffy ring, above villous ; villi silky ; 
pappus featherlike, longer than the seed; rays adhering 
together at the base in twos and threes, and all grown to- 
gether into a ring, deciduous. 
1 . Carlina vulgaris. Common car line-thistle. 
Stem woolly ; leaves lanceolate, toothed, spinous, pu- 
bescent beneath ; calathides manv, corymbose. 
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