. Flowers of the field. Botany. COMPOSIT.'B 4. C. Cyanus (Cornflower, Blue-bottle).—One of the prettiest of flowers, I—2 feet high ; stem erect,^ slender, grooved, slightly branched, coltony ; leaves linear-lanceolate, the lower ones toothed ; heads about an inch across ; involucre egg-shaped, cobwebby ; bi'acts with toothed, membranous margins ; receptacle with silvery bristles ; ray-florets few, large, bright blue ; disk-florels with dark purple anthers.—Cornfields ; frequent. When mixed with Poppies and yellow Corn-marigolds, it forms as brilliantly coloured a bouquet as can be imagined. Ch
. Flowers of the field. Botany. COMPOSIT.'B 4. C. Cyanus (Cornflower, Blue-bottle).—One of the prettiest of flowers, I—2 feet high ; stem erect,^ slender, grooved, slightly branched, coltony ; leaves linear-lanceolate, the lower ones toothed ; heads about an inch across ; involucre egg-shaped, cobwebby ; bi'acts with toothed, membranous margins ; receptacle with silvery bristles ; ray-florets few, large, bright blue ; disk-florels with dark purple anthers.—Cornfields ; frequent. When mixed with Poppies and yellow Corn-marigolds, it forms as brilliantly coloured a bouquet as can be imagined. Children sometimes string the outer florets with a needle and thread into a wreath, which, when pressed, will retain its colour for a long while. Recently expanded flowers should be chosen, or they will fade.—Rose- coloured, white, and dark purple varieties are com- mon in gardens, and are occasionally found wild. —Fl. July, August ; and, in turnip-fields, again in October and November. Annual or Biennial. c,. C. paniculdta, with a loosely corymbose stem, rather cottony, and cylin- dric heads of pinkish florets, and 6. C. aspera, a prostrate species, with long, slender branches, linear leaves, ter- M- Succor)). minal, solitary heads, 3—5 spines to each outer bract, and purple florets, are confined to the'Channel Islands. 7. C. Calcilrapa (Common Star-Thistle).—A stout, spreading, stiff, branched species ; leaves pinnatifld, bristle-pointed ; lieads lateral, sessile ; bracts each ending in a long, stiff, spreading, yellow spine, channelled along its upper surface ; florets rose- purple.—Gravelly and sandy places in the south ; rave. The spines resemble the cruel iron instrument called Caltrops, which was used to lame cavalry hoi-scs in war, the insUument being so constructed tliat, in whatever positiiin it lies, one point sticks upwards.—Fl. July, August. Annual. S.* C. solstitidlis (Yellow Star-Tliistle), with ilfra^r winged by the. CICIIORIUM rWTVB'JS {JJ'Ud Ch
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