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SalmonV He 



LiU. 



XVI. ?olycephalos alter. There is another ma- 



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dow Thiftle. Its Root is fingle, the Stalks about 4 

 feet or more high, ftrait and full of prickles, thick 



foJ^times Zorfd7eply cut in on the edges, having a 

 few prickles at them, and branched towards the 

 top, with many fmall Heads upon . /lender Foot 

 fialks, which bear purple Thrum Flowers, and 

 turn into Down, in which the Seed is involved, like 

 m in other Thiftles. 



XVIII. The fourteenth, orOate-Land, or Mus- 

 ked Thiftle. Its Root is fmall and long, perijhing 

 at the approach of Winter. It hat an upright 



Thiftle Oate-Land : Or^ Musked. 



to a Mans Height, hut is found growing 

 , prickly, jagged Leaves, fet round the Stalk 



Fufple Color tending to blujh, of a mofi pleff,Z 

 ny other Wild ThiUles; and the Leaves Jet 



Thiftle Spear, Broad Greater. 



edges, in 2 or ^ places, fet at iiftances one from 



long and narrow., 'pointed like the Head of a Jave- 

 lin or Pike, (whence came the }^ame : ) The 

 Flowers are purplifh in fcaly prickly ^ Heads, af~ 

 ter which comes the Seed wrapped up in Down, 04 

 in other Thiflles. 



XX. The Places. All thefe Thiflles Grow 

 Wild by Way-Sides, in Fields, Meadows, Or- 

 chards, Gardens, and in Corn Lands in molt places 

 of this Kingdom, as alfo in many other places be- 

 yond Sea-, alfo on Heaths, Greens, and waftepla- 



^ ^Xl^The Times. They 

 beginning of J«»f to the en 

 Seed is ripe in fome linle tii 



