38 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES VII.— CENTAUR E A SOLSTITI ALIS. Linn. 
Plate DCCXIL 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Yol. XV. Tab. DCCXCY. Fig. 1. 
BUM, FL Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2G6. 
Annual. Stem winged throughout, much branched. Radical 
leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, those in the middle and upper part of the 
stem strapshaped, entire, decurrent. Anthodes without leaves in 
their immediate vicinity. Pericline ovate-ovoid, usually arachnoid ; 
appendages of the phyllaries at the base of the pericline with the 
main spine rather short, those in the middle with the spine longer 
than the pericline ; spines not channelled on the upper side at the 
base, with 2 or 3 short spines on each side near the base. Florets 
bright - yellow, those of the ray shorter than the fertile ones. 
Pappus longer than the achene. 
In lucerne and sainfoin fields. Rare, and not native. It 
seems to be most persistent in the South-east of Kent. 
[England.] Annual. Late Autumn. 
Plant forming a scrubby bush 18 inches to 2 feet high, with 
the lower part of the steins very stiff, almost woody ; branches 
when young soft, with very broad wings decurrent from the short 
strapshaped leaves. Pericline f to \ inch across ; the spines of the 
middle phyllaries \ to 1 inch across, pale-yellow ; inner phyllaries 
with scarious appendages. Achenes white, with a long pappus 
of soft white hairs. Plant hoary, arachnoid-pubescent. 
St. Barnaby's Thistle. 
French, Centauree clu Solstice. German, Sonnenwende Flockeriblume. 
Tins plant obtains its trivial name from being supposed to flower about the 
11th .Tune, old style, St. Barnabas-day. Before the alteration in style, the summer 
solstice fell on the 12th June, the day after St. Barnabas, and the old nursery rhyme 
\\ as more appropriate : — 
" Barnaby — Barnaby bright, 
The longest day antl the shortest night." 
Sub-Order II.— C ORYMBIFERjE. 
Anthodes with the florets of the disk generally perfect and 
tubular, those of the margin female (or rarely neuter) and ligulate 
{heterogamous and radiant); more rarely with all the florets tubular. 
