[in the light of 4-28-32 #6594 this was almost surely M. nervosa Benth. 4-25-30 long, ciliate. 224 (see at end) 4-25-30 ?? Centaurea salmantica L. Brit II 499 = Microlophrys salmanticus Bee 369, Box 181 Flynn up to part of circular rd skirting com after leaving village. In waste field near home so consider poor. I am escaped in manuals, Cf'd with C. apiifolia. If in Bar this is only poor sec p 261 as filaments are free, and thus without appendix, hilum lateral pappus of free scales. To 3 ft. Slender, ridged, more loosely below, branched above with long naked branches that bear terminal (near the end a few lateral) florets. Lvs mostly at base with smaller ones on st. & helow middle. Lvs all pinnate with narrow linear widely separated segs. Tortiled through on edges until almost parallel (not spiny), mid rib above densely woolly. Invol. narrowly ovate 3/4 in high. Bracts purplish or green with purple tips sharp but not spiny farinted, the outer outer ones whitish or edged. Corolla tinged purple the outer radent sterile, inner ones perfect. Receptacle with long white scales. Rechenia, small, smooth (at well developed stage) minutely downy with ring of short hairs at top, just like low entire edge? thick. Pappus of scales, blunt