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helenio‘ides. 
SYNGENESIA. Al{QUALIS. Carduns. 
with 5 horny, yellow, spear-shaped points. Summit sylindtical, 
blunt, not notched at the end. Dow feathered. ~ 
This plant was well known to Mr. Ray, nor was it unknown 
our plant. 
Meadow Thistle. ponalestended ot Sua English. soft ot 
gentle Thistle. Cirsium anglicum : 193. C. betero- 
BE Light, ati Relh, 306. Moix eueinre and pas- 
tures, not uncommon. [Near Heydon, Norfolk. Bryant.— 
Sw mary peadaws near £ Robinson’ s End, Malvern Chace, Wor- 
cester ALLARD.—Meadows between: Pucklechurch 
and Mangots feld, nlenteeel Mr. Swaynz.—Woods in the Isle 
of Wight. ] P..May, June, 
C. Leaves ee the stem, spear-shaped, toothed, 
fri with | small unequal thorns; stem w ithont 
hint: 
E. bot. 675-Hall. 7. at is p. 77-Mill. 91-Clus. ii. 148. 2 
Ger. em. 1183. fig. 2d-Park. 961. 5—-F. B. iii. 46, 2- 
& ing 220 26 
the way up, Leaves 40 to 50, half embracing the stem, toothed 
not jagged, fringed with soft thoms, the ears at the base ee 
— back, and growing to the stem; flower-/eaves awl-sha 
eh teat English soft, or Melanckel Thistle. Cirsium Britan- 
nicum Clusis repens. Ray Syn. 193. Mr. Ray thought this plant 
specifically different from the preceding, and our later botanists 
ve entertained the same opinion, but it is not equally agreed 
i e same plant by 
However this may be, the alpine plant we now sear of must not 
be confounded with the lowland meadow C. pratense, which 1t 
only resembles in its cottony leaves and sue flowered stalks 
but from which it differs in its great size, its thick hollow stalk, 
its stem being clothed with leaves, and its leaves being more fe- 
