ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Sub-Genus I.— EU-CAKDUUS. 
llairs of the pappus not plumose (the hairs without conspicuous 
secondary hairs upon them). 
SPECIES L—CARDUUS TENUIPLORUS. Curt. 
Plate DCLXXXII. 
Reich Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XV. Tab. DCCCLXV. Fig. 1. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 805. 
0. pycnocephalus, Jknlh. Handbook Brit. Bot. p. 313 (non Jacq.). 
Stem winged throughout. Radical leaves oblanceolatc, blunt ; 
stem-leaves decurrent, acute, both deeply sinuate-pinnatifid, spiny, 
with scattered hairs above, more or less sparingly arachnoid beneath. 
Anthodes ag^res-ated at the summit of the stem, and branches 
sub-sessile or very shortly stalked. Pericline cylindrical-ovoid, 
glabrous ; phyllaries adpressed, strapshaped-lanceolate, acuminate, 
shortly spinous-pointed, with the point curving outwards, the inner 
ones as long as or longer than the florets. Pappus not plumose. 
In waste ground and by roadsides ; preferring sandy situations 
and near the sea. Not uncommon in England and the South 
of Scotland as far North as Eorfar and Fife. On the "West 
coast it is not known to occur North of the neighbourhood of 
Glasgow. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial. Annual. 
Summer and Autumn. 
Stem erect, (> inches to 4 feet high, branched in large examples, 
with the branches making but a small angle with the stem. 
Radical and lower leaves much attenuated towards the base, with 
i he terminal lobe transversely rhomboidal. Pericline J inch long 
by j broad; inner phyllaries searious at the edges. Elowcrs pale 
purplish-pink. Achcncs J inch long, fawn-colour, shining, finely 
transversely rugose, the disk with a very prominent tubercle in the 
(•(Mil re. Pappus much longer than the achene, pure white. Plant 
green, more or less hoary. 
M r. Bentbam considers this plant identical with C. pycnocephalus 
of Linnaeus, a South European plant, which is probably distinct 
from tin- present plant only as a sub-species. It dilTers in having 
the heads larger, fewer together, on longer stalks, the pericline 
oblong-ovoid, the florets longer in proportion to the scales, and 
several other less obvious characters. 
Slender-flowered Thistle* 
French, Chardon bjleurs menucs. Gcruiau, ^dunalbliitkrigc Distel, 
