SYNGENESIA. ^QUALIS. Carduus. 909 
~Var. 2. Cristatus. A monstrous variety, with a broad flat stem and head of 
flower?. , 
Stem three quarters of an inch broad. Cluster of. flowers two inches and a 
half broad, the upper edge crowned with a continued line of florets, so as 
to give it the appearance of the Cockscomb Amarantlius of the gardens. St, 
The root produced the same singular variety for two years together. 
C. acantho'jdes. Leaves indented, spinous at the edge; calyx on 
fruit-stalks, solitary, upright, woolly: (scales strap-shaped, re¬ 
curved : down capillary. E.) ' ) 
Curt. — (E. Sot. 973. E.)— Jacq. Austr. 249— Lob. Ic. ii. 21— Tabern. 1080, 
1— Ger. 1010. l—Ger. Em. 1173. 1— J. B. iii. 59— H. Ox. vii. 30. 11— 
Pet. 21. 2. 
Stem solitary, three or four feet high, angular, leafy, edged with a border 
set with numerous stiff* yellow thorns of various lengths. Leaves , the 
lower wing-cleft; wings broad, blunt, obscurely five-cornered, with five 
imperfect lobes, the terminal one very broad and blunt, cottony under¬ 
neath, above smooth, excepting a few short hairs arising from glandular 
warts ; ribs ending in sharp yellow thorns ; those above pointed, wings 
triangular, confluent. Flowers sessile, crowded, pointing upwards, side- 
wise, and downwards ; sometimes in branched bunches, terminating the 
branches, on short fruit-stalks upright or open. Calyx scales spear-shaped, 
yellowish green, the upper expanding, the innermost chaffy, all tipped 
with sharp thorns. Blossom, segments somewhat longer than the anthers, 
which are even with the pistil. Down nearly as long as the blossom, hair¬ 
like. Woodw. Scales of the calyx scarcely thorny, not close as in C. pa* 
lustris. Curt. Flowers purplish red, sometimes white. 
Curled or Welted Thistle. (Welsh: Ysgalleh grych. E.) C. crispus. 
Huds. Lightf. C. polyacanthos. Curt. C. crispus of Linn, has not been 
found in these Islands. Ditch-banks, on rubbish, borders of corn-fields. 
Plentifully on banks and under walls near Yarmouth, and also in waste 
places far from the coast. Mr. Woodward. Road-sides about London. 
Dr. Stokes. (Near Bolleit, Land’s End. Rev. Pike Jones. On Bryn- 
gwydryn, Anglesey. WelshBot. King’s Park; Mr. Bainbridge : about 
PortobelJo, near Edinburgh. Dr. Greville. E.) A. June—Sept.* 
C. tenuiflo'rus. Leaves spinous at the edge: branches straight, 
flowers in clusters, sessile: calyx nearly cylindrical, scales up¬ 
right, but open, pungent: (down capillary. E.) 
Curt. — (E. Bot. 412. E.)— J. B. iii. 56. 1. (not 516, as in FI. Lond .)— 
Park ; 982. 5—H. Ox. vii. 31. 13— (Pet. 21. 3. E.) 
Stem and branches quite straight, cottony upwards; bordered. Leaves 
cottony underneath. Calyx oblong-conical; scales upright, spreading 
at top, long> narrow, ending in a yellow thorn as long as the florets. 
Curt. Flowers pale-purplish red. (Florets fewer, aggregate, therefore 
more slender than in any other species. Plant three or four feet high. 
E.) 
* (This is not one of the most troublesome of its tribe; being annual, and less abundant 
than some others. Papilio Cardui has been observed upon it. E.) 
