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a sealldil 
ORD. III. Composite. 69 
CYNARA SCOLYMUS. COMMON ARTICHOKE, 
SS 
SYNONYMA. Cinara. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Cinara horten- 
sis foliis non aculeatis. Bauh. Pin. p. 383. Cinara maxima alba. 
Gerard. Emac. p. 1153. Cinara sativa alba. Park. Parad. 
p. 519. Carduus sive Scolymus sativus non spinosus. J. Bauh, 
Hist, vol. iii. p. 48. Raii Hist. p. 299. 
a Cinara hortensis aculeata. C. B. French Artichoke. 
g C. hortensis foliis non aculeatis. C. B. Globe Artichoke. 
Class Syngenesia. Ord. Polygamia Aiqualis. Lin. Gen. Plant. 928. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. _ Cal. dilatatus, imbricatus Squamis Carnosis, emargi- 
natis cum acumine. 
Sp. Ch. C. foliis subspinosis pinnatis indivisisque, calycinis squa- 
mis ovatis. | 
THE root is perennial, large, and fibrous: the stem is thick, 
strong, branched, striated, and rises about three feet in height: 
the leaves are large, of an irregular shape, pinnatifid, obtuse, bent 
downwards, and stand upon strong scored footstalks ; on the upper 
side they are smooth and veined, and on the under reticulated, 
hoary, and downy: the flowers terminate the stem and branches 
upon thick fleshy peduncles: the common calyx is globular, three 
or four inches in diameter, and composed of numerous ovate scales, 
which at the base are thick and fleshy, at the apex tough, membra- 
nous, shining, notched, but with a spinous point in the centre: 
the florets of the corolla are numerous, blue, and equal in size, 
each consisting of one leaf, which is funnel-shaped, and at the base 
forms a slender tube; at the limb it is ereét, and divided into five © 
segments; five filaments, which are capillary, very short, and 
furnished with anthere, which form a cylindrical tube of the length 
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