Herbarium catalogue

1463 C. melitensis L. Cockspur (Australia). Reichb. Ic. t. 65, f. 1. Flora Graeca t. 909. South Europe—Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Dalmatia, Greece, Malta (from whence the name melitensis is derived) ; N. Africa, Madeira, Canaries, Azores. Adventive in South Africa—Cape Flats ; California, South America-—Chile, where it is called Zizana; Juan Fernandez, Australia—abundant in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, intro- duced as far back as 1844. On fallow and pasture lands it forms thick swaths and chokes the more tender, indigenous herbs. Annual, erect, rigid, 3-7 dm., slightly cobwebby or nearly glabrous ; lower leaves pinnately divided; stem leaves narrow, decurrent, entire or slightly toothed, linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, mucronate ; heads small, terminal, sessile above the uppermost leaves, solitary or 2-3 clustered; involucre 13-14 mm.; bracts spiny, the outer ones small with short palmate spines, the middle one a rigid spine, 4-8 mm. with short divaricate spines at base, the inner ones tapering to a very short, simple spine ; florets dull yellow ; corolla glandular; pappus as long as the achene, of several series of bristles. First found in Selk. and Roxb., I. M. H., August 1908 in the same localities as C. Solstitialis and equally common. See Z'r. Bot. Soc. Edin. Flowering August to October. MQQ0327 \) = YH copyright reserved EX HERB. I. M. HAYWARD. Salt No. LC. Ed. 10—V.cC. /f temdowrnea elulan abl eo nove PS Oe cut Mb 2 ae gow LAM E01345001