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Arachnoid at the apex, terminated by a very short spreading spine ; 
inner ones lanceolate, acuminate, sub-scarious, not spinous, with a 
small scarious entire or denticulated appendage. Pappus plumose. 
Var. a, geuuinus. 
Plate DCXCIII. 
Leaves undulated, semi-amplexicaul, and occasionally slightly 
decurrent, pinnatifid or deeply sinuated, with the lobes triangular, 
spinous, dentate, and terminated by a strong spine, generally more 
or less arachnoid, hairy beneath. Anthodes sub-corymbose. 
Var. 3, sctosus. 
Plate DCXCIV. 
Cirsium setosum, M. Bieh. Fl. Tauric. Cauc. Vol. III. p. 561. 
Leaves Hat, not undulated, amplexicaul, nor at all decurrent, 
very faintly sinuated or the upper ones nearly entire, spinous- 
ciliate with the spines weak, glabrous beneath. Anthodes sub- 
paniculate. 
In cultivated fields and waste places. Very common, and 
generally distributed. Var. not native, but found about Culross, 
not far from Dunfermline, Fife ; it has also been found about 
Battersca, Hartlepool, and at Kirkwall, Orkney. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
llootstock creeping very extensively, and sending up leafy barren 
shoots and flowering-stems 1 to 3 feet high. Leaves of the barren 
shoots and those at the base of the flowering-stem attenuated and 
sub-pctiolatc, elliptical, less deeply lobed than the stem-leaves; stem- 
leaves sub-amplexieaul with strong spines at the margins. Anthodes 
rather shortly stalked, so as to be somewhat aggregated at the 
extremity of the stem and branches, most of them arranged in 
an irregular corymb. Pericline of the male flowers about l inch 
each way, of the female j inch long by I inch broad; outer phyl- 
Laries short, and terminated by a minute weak spine, the inner 
ones with a slightly dilated Bcarious appendage, very much shorter 
th:in the phyllary itself. Flowers pale-purple ; lloreis a little 
Longer than the inner phyllaries, and with tin 4 tube much longer 
than the limb. Anthers short and imperfect in the sub-l'eniale 
plant, the ovary abortive in the male wilh the pappus short and not 
Lengthening after flowering. Achenes dark-brown, smooth. Pappus 
brownish-white, very long, silky. Plant bright-green, the leaves 
often white beneath, hut varying much in this respect. 
