SYNGENESIA, ASQUALIS. Carduus. 681 
Carduus arvensis. Cur - 533. Core Saw-wort. 
Way Thistle. Cornfields a sad sides, P, July.* 
Var. 2. Leaves much less thorny, not so deeply indented. 
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Ger, 1011. 5. 
Amongst the corn in Battersea Fields, over against Chelsea, 
Ray. [Found by e somewhere in Devonshire, and c 
tivated in both our pe ti for some years past, Ms: Baurarp.] 
CAR’DUUS. Calyx bellying, tiled ; scales thorny: 
receptacle hairy. 
(1) Leaves decurrent, 
C. Leaves toothed, thorny at the edge: flowers in bunches, palustris. 
upright : fruit-stalks without thorns 
Gmel. ii. 23. 2-H. ox. vii. 32, 13—Pet. 21. 4. 
Fruit-stalks without thorns. Calyx closely tiled, smooth, 
the points of the scales being hardly discernible. ae ag a~ 
é 
en, tipped with deep purple, rot a rib along the back, 
ending in a short expanding thorn not pungent ; inner point 
without thorns. Bloss. segme swap even with the anthers, ed 
than the pistil. Doaww shorter than the. ames! rays fringed 
- with oe hairs. Woopwarp. Bless. purple ; sometimes white, 
rshy meadows and moist shady alee Teed wet mies 
ries Woopwarp. | P. 
tr. 2. cristatus. A monstrous variety, with a broad a 
oF, aad head of flowers. 
Stem 2 of an inch broad. Cluster of flowers 2 inches and an 
half broad, the upper edge crowned with a continued line of flo- 
_ Fets, so as to give it. the eee af the Cockscomb Ama- 
tanthus of the gardens. 
Tt grew in the middle ofa pasture, The root produced the 
same for 2 years together. 
C. Leaves indented, thorny at the edge: calyxes on fruit- Acanthoi‘des. 
stalks, star, upright, woolly, 
* It is said to yield 2 a yery pure vegetable alkaly when burnt. Goats 
eat it; neither cows, horses, sh ge r swine are found of it. Linn, Horses 
sig yo eat the young tops. S 
s, and almost all the veh species of this grate may be eaten 
like the A ock, before the ti are formed, Sw eat it; horses 
are very fond of it; cows refuse 
