COMPOSITE. 
varying much in the degree of pubescence, and consequently in the 
green or whitish colour of the leaves. 
Welted Thistle. 
French, Chardon Crepu. German, Krame Distel. 
This is one of the least troublesome of the Thistles, being annual and less 
abundant than some others. 
HYBRID.* 
CARDUUS NUTANTI-CRISPUS. Sond. 
Plate DCLXXXV. 
Reich. Tc. PL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XV. Tab. DCCCLXXVII. Fig. 3. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 269G. 
C. acanthoides, Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 231. 
C. " polyanthemos, Dull. Pveinische Fl. p. 505." 
Intermediate between C. crispus and C. nutans, and approaching 
sometimes the one parent and sometimes the other. 
From C. nutans it differs in the more spinous wing to the stem, 
the smaller and less drooping or erect anthodes, the narrower and 
less spreading outer phyllaries, and in the leaves being usually 
slightly hoary beneath. 
From C. crispus it is distinguished by the sub-solitary and 
sometimes slightly drooping anthodes, often without leaves in 
their immediate vicinity, the pericline more arachnoid, and by the 
broader and less adpressed phyllaries, the outer ones somewhat 
recurved. 
It grows with C. nutans and C. crispus about Saffron Walden, 
from whence I am favoured with specimens by the Rev. W. W. 
Newbould. Professor Babington mentions it as if it were not 
uncommon ; but I am not sure that he does not include C. crispus,, 
var. litigiosus, under his C. crispus, )3 acanthoides. 
Sub-Genus II.—CIRSIUM. Towmef. 
Hairs of the pappus plumose (the hairs clothed with secondary 
conspicuous hairs). 
* Hybrids occur in the genus Carduus so frequently, that it has been considered 
advisable to give figures of those which are most likely to be met with. 
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