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latis, acutis ; raniulis 
nudiusculis unifloris ; 
involucris globosis ; 
squamis muticis. 
lanceolate, acute, 
branches naked, one 
flowered; involucrums 
globose; scales un- 
armed. 
Pursh, 2. p. 499. 
Cirsium muticum. Mich. 2. p. 89. 
Stem tall, slender, branching. Leaves deeply sinuate, the segments 
sometimes 3-lobed ; lobes acute and spiny, pale, hairy, and when young 
lanuginous 1 underneath. Flowers in globose heads. Scales or leaves of 
the involucrum lanuginous, the lower ones armed with spines, the upper 
simple, acute. Corolla purple. 
Grows in the mountains of Carolina and Georgia, 
Flowers July- — September. 
3. Repandus. Mich. * 
C. foliis amplexi- 
caulibus, angustoob- 
longis, laevissime ob- 
tuseque sinuatis, spi- 
nulis crebris, lanugi- 
nosis ; ramis unifloris, 
foliosis ; involucri 
squamis lanceolatis, e- 
rectis, spinula arista- 
tis. 
Leaves amplexi- 
caule, narrow, oblong, 
slightly and obtusely 
sinuate, with nume- 
rous small spines, lan- 
uginous; branches one 
flowered, leafy,- scales 
of the involucrum lan- 
ceolate, erect, armed 
with a spine. 
Cirsium Repandum. Mich. 2. p. 89. 
Stem erect, about 2 feet high, sometimes divided, but generally simple, 
and bearing one terminal flower, very lanuginous. Leaves oblong, nar- 
row, sligjitly sinuate, repand, very closely fringed with spines, slightly dis- 
coloured and lanuginous underneath, 2 — 3 inches long and about half an 
inch wide, perhaps larger near the root. Involucrum somewhat cylindri- 
cal, scales ovate-lanceolate, very acute, terminating in a short spine, slight- 
ly lanuginous. Corolla tubular, much longer than the involucrum, deep- 
ly 5-cleft, bright purple. Receptacle bristly. Seed crowned with a beau- 
tifully feathered pappus. 
Grows in dry pine barrens in the middle districts of Carolina and Geor- 
gia. 
Flowers June—Jidy, 
