306 THE DAISY FAMILY. 



The scales of the basket teiihinate in hoolvs, which readily catch hold of cloth- 

 ing, and fasten themselves pertinaciously. The leaves are remarkable for the 

 beauty of their wavy outlines, and being large, conspicuous, and picturesque, are 

 often introduced by artists into the foreground of their landscapes. 



23. Saw-wort — [Sermtula tincturia.) 

 Cultivated fields and in thickets, rather rare. Field at the head of 

 Mere Clough. (J. P.) Between Gorton and Reddish. Laudside, 

 near Tyldesley, plentiful. (J. E.) In a field between Monton and 

 Eccles, growing among Rosa arvensis, plentiful. (J. S.) Mobberley, 

 in stifi" clay land, in open fields, and by hedgesides, plentiful. (Mr. 

 Holland.) Fl. August. 



E. B. i. 38 ; Baxter, iii. 174. 



24. Nodding Musk-thistle — {Cardials niitans.) 

 Fields near the roadside between Disley, Whaley, and past Whaley, 

 on the road to Buxton. Once found atWorsley. (J. E.) Fl. July — 

 September. Biennial. 



E. B. xvi. 1112 ; Baxter, iii. 177. 



25. Milk-thistle — [Cdrduus Maridnus.) 

 Occasionally about Bowdon and elsewhere, probably truant from a 

 garden, being Wten cultivated for the sake of its beautiful leaves, 

 which are laced with milk-white veins. Fl. July. 

 Curtis, i. 199 ; E. B. xiv. 970. 

 This truly noble and ornamental plant is further distinguished by the great 

 recurved, aud often thorny scales of the basket. 



26. Speak-thistle — {Cdrduus lanceoldtus.) 

 Roadsides and waste places, everywhere ; one of those indomitable 



plants which return to the charge again and again, with such amusing 

 and troublesome valour, overthrow them as often as we may. Fl. 

 July — October. Biennial. 



E. B. ii. 107 ; Baxter, vi. 410. 

 This is the species usually believed to be the national emblem of Scotland. 

 (See "Titan," vol. xxvi., p. :W9.) 



27. Marsh Thistle — {Cdrduus palustris.) 



Ditches, sides of ponds, in moist hollows, and marshy meadows, 

 common everywhere. Fl. July, August. Biennial. 

 Curtis, iii. 420; E. B. xiv. 974. 



The only indigenous thistle wbicii grows habitually in wet places, and dis- 

 tinguished by this circumstance not less than by its crowded clusters of small 

 and sessile heads, aud slender, wand-like stems, rising four to five feet high, 

 and branched only at the summit. 



