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CarTHAMUS LANATUs. Wooty CarTHamus, 
or Yeittow Distarr-THisTLe. 
JH Hee 
Class and Order. 
SyncenesiA Potyeamia AlQuALis. 
Generic Character. 
Receptaculum paleaceo-setaceum. Cal. ovatus imbricatus ! 
squamis apice subovato-foliaceis. Pappus paleaceo-pilosus s. 
nullus. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Cartuamus lanatus; caule lanuginoso, foliis inferioribus 
pinnatifidis dentatis : summis amplexicaulibus pinnati- 
fido-dentatis spinosis.. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 1707. Hort. 
Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 491. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 380. 
Schkuhr Handb. 3. p. 61. t. 233. 
Cartnamus lanatus ; caule piloso: superne lanato, foliis 
inferioribus pinnatifidis : summis amplexicaulibus den- 
a Hort. Ups. 251. Sp. Pl. 1163. Villars Dauph. 
. p. 36. 
Arractyuis foliis cartilagineis, reticulatis, imis semipinnatis, 
ovato-lanceolatis, amplexicaulibus. Hall. Hist. n. 192. 
Arractyiis Fusus agrestis. Garin. Sem. 2. p. 381. ¢. 161. 
Arractytis. . Bauh pin. 379. 1. Dod. pempt. 736. Camer. 
Epit. 561. fig. opt. Hall. Hist... 192. Raj. Hist. 
304.4. Park. Theatr. 963. 1. Lob. icon. 2. t. 13. f- 1. 
Arractyiis Theophrasti et Dioscoridis, sanguineo succo. 
Col. Ecphr. 1. p. 19. t. 23. 
Arractynis vera. Bauh. Hist. 3. part.1. p. 85. fig. pessima. 
Centaurea lanata. Lam. & Dec. Fl. Frang 4. p. 102. 
eae 
This plant is supposed, with considerable probability, to be 
the Arracryzis of the ancient writers, and was said by them 
to have been used formerly by the country women to make 
their distaffs for holding the wool in spinning. Fasrus 
CoLuMNA, 
