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CYNARA SCOLYMUS, 
ARTICHOKE, 
SYNONYM A. , Cinara. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. 'Cinara hor- 
Cinara maxima 
tends foliis non aculeatis. Bauh. Fin. * 
s 
P- 3 
Gerard. Emac. p. 1 153. Cinara fativa alba. Park. Par ad. 
alba. 
/• 5*9 
ili/I. vol. iii. p. 48. Rail Bift. 
Carduiis five Scolymus fativus non fpinofus. J. 
sauti 
29 
j** 
* Cinara hort 
e 
nns a 
culeata. 'C. B. French Artichoke. 
& C. hortenfis foliis non aculeatis. C. B. Globe Artichoke 
Clafs 
) 
m 
enefi 
1a. 
Ord. Polygamia iEcjUalis. Lin. Gen. Plant. 928 
* 
EJf. Gen. Ch. Cal dilatatus, imbricatus fquamis carnofis 
5 
emargmatis 
cum acumine 
Sp. Ch. 
C. foliis fubfpinofis pinnatis indivififque, calycinis fquamis 
ovatis. 
s: 
THE root is perennial, large, and fit 
flrong, branched, ftriated, and rifes about three feet in heig 
the ftem is thick, 
it: the 
leaves are lanre, of 
fliape, pinnatifid, obtufe, bent down 
on the upper 
fide 
wards, and ftand upon flrong fcored 
they are fmooth and veined, and oh the under reticulated, hoary, 
and downy: the flowers terminate the ftem and branches upon thick 
or four inches 
flemy peduncles : the common calyx is globular, thi 
e 
diameter, and 
pofed of numer 
fc 
which 
the 
bafe are thick and fleihy, at the apex toueh, membranous, mining 
notched, but with a fp 
point 
numerous, blue, and equ 
the centre : the florets of the 
in fize, each confifling of one 
leaf, which is funnel-fhaped, and at the bafe forms a ilender tube j 
at the limb it is erec% and divided into five fegmeats ; five filaments, 
which 
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