684 SYNGENESIA. AQUALIS. Carduus. | 
3 feet high, scored, cottony. Branches alternate. Fruit-stalks 
terminating, cottony, particularly that which terminates the 
stem. Leaves with winged clefts ; wings egg-shaped, with strong 
thorns. Ca/. scales spear-shaped, cottony, with the rib running 
along the back terminating in a thorn, the lowermost bent back, 
the inner BE im, thorns. Dewy hair-like, nearly as long as 
the flor dee ang Stem leaves, and calyxes over- 
cales very strong, horizo Atal when the flower is phew 
grey, globular, set with fine points. 
Musk Thistle. Pastures in a calcareous soil. AA raters sides in 
a sandy or gravelly soil, Stoxes. Marlborough Downs. ] 
ke "jud, July. 
(2) Leaves sitting. 
maria’nus, C, Leaves embracing the stem, halberd-shaped and wing- 
* cleft; thorny : calyx without any leaves near it: 
thorns channeled, and set with other hittle thorns. 
Kuiph. 1-Curt. 148-Blackw. 79-Ludw. 35-Fuchs. 56- 
- Fe Be tii. a. 52..2-Trag 850-Lanic. i. 70. 2-Ger. 989- 
Pet. 21. 9—Dod. 722. 1-Lob. obs. 479. 1, and ic. ti. 7.2 
Ger. em. 1150~-Park. 976. 1-H. ox. vii. 30. row 2.1 
$ 4—Maith, 676. 
ves are eeoreally ornamented with broad and beau- 
tifully Sun veins, though they are sometimes entirely green. 
The large purple scan and the strong thorns of the calyx, an 
inch or more in length, sufficiently distinguish this from out 
other spec 
Milk 7 Thistle. Ladies Thistle. Ditch banks and wrt sides, 
borders of cornfields, and on rubbish. A. Aug.” 
erioph’orus, C. Leaves with winged clefts poles 2 ways, every other 
segm ight: calyxes globular, woolly. 
Tess austr. 171—E. bot. 386-Clus. ii. 154—Ded. 723-L0b- 
f 482.1, and sc..ti. 9, 2-Ger, em. ibe B, iit 
a. pate 978-Mill. ic. 203... 
Stem 2 feet high, branched, flowering the second —_ Cal. 
as large as anegg; points of the scales st Erepehapes, be ontal, 
* This is eaten when en young as a sallad, The young stalks peeled, 
and soaked in water to take off the bitterness, ate excellent. The scales 
ry the cup aré as good as Artichokes, The root is aoa to eat early i 
Sprung. 
