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CARDUUS MARINE. 



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A Very beautiful Plant, common by Road-fides, 

 ■^^ but wanting only to have, been a Native of 

 Greece^ or the Indies, to be efteemed one of the 

 moll elegant .Vegetables in the World. The 

 Leaves, riling from the Root, are two Feet long, 

 and more than a Foot broad, of a beautiful deep 

 Green, variegated all over with irregular Lines of 



aimiik "White, dehtat^d deeply at the Edges, and 

 prickly. They fpread themfelves into a Round of 



more than a Yard Diameter, and when they grow 

 cut of the Way of Dull, make a moil: charming 

 Appearance. A fingle Salk rifes in the midft ot 

 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 Hand the Flowers, which- 

 are of the Nature of thofe of other Thirties, but 

 twice as big, and vaftly more beautiful. The 

 flowery 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 ilrong Prickle, the Root is long 

 and thick, the Seeds are wisged with Down. 



he Root and Seeds 'are ufed. An Infufion of 

 the frefh Root removes Obftrudions, and works 

 by Urine, it is good againft the Jaundice. The 

 Seeds beaten up into an Emulfion with Barley- 

 ^Yater are good in Pleurifies. The young L 



with the Prickles cut ofi", are excellent boiled ii 

 the Way of Cabbage, they are very wholefome 

 and exceed all other Greens in Tafle. 



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