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45^ SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA ^QUAL^S.
from the aU of the leaves : the fcales of the
calyx are lanceolate, cred, acute, but not pun-
gent, and of a dull purple color : the ftyles are
much longer than the aniher<£ -, and the down
of the feeds is plumofe.
A variety of this fometimes occurs, having leaves
near their fummits pinnatifid, as figur'd in Oe-
^^er's Fl. Dan. tab 109.
CARDUUS acaulis calyce glabro. Sp. pi 1156.
(Ger. em. 1158./. 3. Vet. herb. /. 21./. 6. Moris,
hijl.f. 7. /. 32./. 22.)
Dwarf Carline Thiftle. Anglis,
In dry paftures, but not common. %* VII.
The leaves lie clofe to the ground round the root,
fo as to occupy a circle of a foot or more in dia-
meter, upon which fpace no other plants or
hcibage can grow. They are therefore very
detrimental to paftures. Thefe leaves are pin-
natifid, their fegments angular, divided into two
or three lobes, which are edged with ftrong
fpincs • one head of purple flowers, and fome-
times more, ftands in the centre of the leaves up-
on a ftalk hardly an inch high : the fcales of the
calyx are fmooth, flat, and acute, but not pun-
gent : the down of the feeds is plumofe, and an
inch lono; ; the feeds not above i-6th of an inch.
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ONOPORDUM. Gen. pi 927.
Recept. favofum. Cal fquam^ mucronat^e.
ONOPORDUM