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Meditfirranean, the leaves are eaten as a kind of vegetable. The seed was formerly used as a medicine, and it is 
still called Parrot's Corn, as it is said to be particularly wholesome for those birds, though injurious for most 
others. The seeds are common in the English seed-shops, and they may be sown at almost any season, and in 
almost any soil. 
2— CARTHAMUS OXYACANTHA, Sieb. THE SHARP-SPINED CARTHAMUS. 
Specific Chaiuctek. — Plant rather villous. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, with spiny margins. Fruit ovate-conjpressed. 
Descbiption, &c. — A plant with yellow flowers and spiny leaves, growing about three feet high. A native 
of Caucasus. Introduced in 1818. 
GENUS XLII. 
KENTROPHYLLUM, A^ec/i. THE KENTROPHYLLUM OR WOOLLY -CARTHAMUS. 
Lin. Spsl. SYNGENESIA. ^QUALIS. 
Generic Character, — Head homogamous. Involucral scales ovate, 
outer ones foilaceous, pinnatiBd, spinoso; inner ones oblong, scarcely 
toothed, but ending in a spinoso point. Receptacle thick, fringed. 
Corollas 5-cIeft, regular ; the ray ones sometimes very few, sterile, and 
filiform. Filaments furnished with a ring of hairs. Anthers termi- 
nated racli by au obtuse appendage. Stigmas combined. Achcnia 
thick, obovate, and somewhat tetragonal, glabrous, denticulated at the 
apex, with an oblique areola. P-appus in the marginal flowers wanting, 
in the rest ])aleaceous, the outer palcae membranous, ciliated on the 
margins, imbricated ; the inner ones very short, in one scries, truncate, 
and toothed. 
1— KENTROPHYLLUM LANATUM, Dec. THE WOOLLY KENTROPHYLLUM, OR YELLOW 
DISTAFF-THISTLE. 
Specific Character. — Stem pilose at the base, and cobwcbbedat the 
top ; lower leaves pinnatifidly toothed ; upper ones stem-clasping, 
piunatifidly tootlied. Involucrum more or less woolly. 
Symonymes. — Carihanuis lanatus. Lin. ; Cirsium lanatum, Dec. ; 
llcracantha lanata, Link. 
Engraving. — Bot. Mag. t. 2142. 
Description, &c A curious plant, somewhat resembling a thistle in its flower, but having its stem clothed 
with a downy pubescence, which hangs down from the head and upper part of the stalk, like the wool from a 
distaff used in spinning. It is supposed to be the Arctractylis of the ancients. It is a native of the south of 
Europe, and was cultivated in England before 1596, as it is mentioned by Gerard as growing in his garden in 
that year. It is quite hardy, and will grow in any soil and situation. 
TRIBE CICHORACEjE. 
GENUS XLIII. 
TOLPIS, Biv. THE PURPLE-EYED YELLOW HAWKWEED. 
Lin. Syst. SYNGENESIA jEQUALIS. 
Generic Character.— Involucral scales in few series, calyculated by linear setaceous bracteas. Receptacle honey-combed. Achenia turbinated, 
striated, bcakless. Pappus in one series. 
1.— TOLPIS BARBATA, Gtertn. THE BEARDED TOLPIS, OR PURPLE-EYED HAWKWEED. 
Spkcific Character Stem erect, branched, leafy. Leaves lanceo- 
late, toothed. Bracteas exceeding the scales of the involucrum. 
Synonvmes. — Crcpis barbata, Lin. ; Drepania barbata, Dec. ; 
llieracium proliferum, Bauh. 
KNCBAVINGS.-Bot. Mag. t. 35 ; and om fig. 6, in Plate 31. 
Deschiption, &c. — A very well-known flower, which, though introduced in 1620, has maintained its place 
