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46o SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMI A JEQUALIS.
CARLINA. Gen. pL 929.
Cal. radiatus fquamis marginalibus longis, coloratls.
vulgaris I. CARLINA caule multifloro corymbofo floribus
terminalibiis, calycis radio albo. Lin.fyjl. nat. p.
532. Sp. pi. 1 1 61. {Ger. em. 1159./. ^-^
Common CarlineThiillc. Anglis.
In dry hilly paftures, but not very common. ^ .
VII.
I'he ftalk is about a foot high, eredt, purple, an-
gular, a little woolly, furnifhed with many leaves,
and branched at top : the leaves are woolly un-
derneath, and pinnatifid, with fhort angular
plaited fegments, terminated with fharp yellow
fpines : the upper leaves at the bafe of the r.alyx
are lanceolate and dented on the edges, the dents
ending each in two rigid fpines : the flowers ge-
nerally crown the ftalk in an umbel, but fome-
times it bears only one or two flowers : the inferior
fcales of the caJyx refemble the upper leaves of
the ftalk : the fticceeding ones are edged with
branched fpines, purple at the bafe, but yellow
at the points : the interior ones are long and lan-
ceolate, dry and ftiining, ftraw-color'd on the
infide, but fufcous on the outfide at the bafe,
and fpread like rays in a circle round the difc :
t!ie florets are all hermaphrodite, tubular, di-
vided into 5 dents, and of a dark red or pur-
ple color at the rim : the receptacle is befet with
k'taceous chaft' or p^tf : the down of the feeds