364 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
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CARDUUS MARTE. 
A Very beautiful Plant, common by Road-fidesy 
but wanting only to have been a Native of, 
Greece, or the Indies, to be efteemed one of the. 
moft elegant Vegetables in the World. The 
Leaves rifing from the Root, are two Feet long, 
and more than a Foot broad, of a beautiful deep 
Green, variegated all over with itregular Lines of 
amilk White, dentated deeply at the Edges, and 
prickly. They fpread themfelves into a Round of 
more than a Yard Diameter, and when they grow 
out of the Way of Duft, make a moft charming” 
Sealers: A fingle Salk rifes in the midft of 
thefe. It is five Feet. high, round, thick, very 
firm, upright, and divided at the Top into a few 
Branches. The Leaves on it are like thofe from_ 
the Root, and variegated with white in the fame. 
Manner. At the Tops ftand the Flowers, which 
_ are of the Nature of thofe of other Thiftles, but 
_ twice as big, and vaftly more beautiful. The. 
lowery Part is of a deep and fine Purple, the 
Head itfelf is compofed of beautiful Scales arrang-- 
ed with great Regularity, and each terminating in’ 
a fingle and very ftrong Prickle, the Root is long. 
and thick, the ‘Seeds are winged with Down. 
. The Root and Seeds are ufed. An Infufion of 
~ aaa Rose removes Obftructions, and works 
Tine, it is good againft the Jaundicé. The - 
Seeds beaten’ up into an Eales with Barley- — 
Water are good in Pleurifies, The young Leaves — 
: with the Prickles cut off, are excellent boiled in 
the Way of Cabbage, they are very wholefome, — 
and exceed all other Greens in Tafte, re 
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