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He leaues of Carlineare very full of prickles, cut on both edges with a multitude of 

 dcepe ga(hes,and fct along the corners with ftiffe and very fharpe prickles j the middle 

 ribs whereof are fometimes red : the ftalke is a fpan high or higher, bringing forth for 

 tbc moft part oncly one bead or knap being full of prick!cs,on the outward circumference or com- 

 pare like the Vrchin huske af a chefnut : and when this openeth at the top, there groweth forth a 

 broad Hourc,rnade vp in the middle like a flat ball,of a great number of threds, which is compafled 



with little long leaues, oftentimes fomewhat white, very feldome red: the feed vnderneath 

 11 flender and narrow, the root is Iong,a finger thicke,fomethingblacke,fo chinked as though it 

 were fplit in 1 under, fweetof fmelUnd in taftefomewhat bitter. 



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Tali Carlinc Thiftle. 



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Cdrlina>feu Chtim&kon dh$ts Diofcoridis. 

 The white Carline Thiftle oiDiofieridcs 

 with the red floure. 





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