SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA ^QUALIS. 449 

 are broad, Ihort, nearly triangular and woolly : 

 the receptacle is hairy : the feed is crown'd with 

 a feflile plumofe down. 



f 3. SERRATULfiCyfoliis dentatis fpinofis. Sp. pi, 

 1 1 49. {Ger. em. 11 73./. 4. Column, ecphras. I. p. 

 45. t. 45. Moris, hift.f 7, /. 32./. 14 J 



Common Way-Thiftle, or Corn-Thiftle. AngUs. 



Foghenan, Cluaran. Gaulis. 



In cultivated grounds and by way-fides. %. VI I. 



The root is long and creeping : the flalk a yard 

 high, ereft, branch'd, fmooth and angular, but 

 not winged : the leaves are generally fmooth, of 

 a lanceolate figure, either indented on the edges, 

 or pinnatifid, the lacinia undulated, angular and 

 dented i the dents ending in fpines : the flowers 

 are commonly purple, but fometimes white, and 

 grow in loofe umbels, one or two upon long 

 woolly peduncles : the calyx is longifh, and con- 

 fifts of numerous compact lanceolate fcales, which 

 end in a fhort harmlefs fpine : the receptacle has 

 fhort fetaceous hairs : the down on the feeds is 

 long and plumofe. 



The plant when burnt yields good allies for glafs- 

 making. 



CARDUUS. Gen. pi 925. 



Caf. ovatLis, imbricatus, fquamis fpinofis. Recept, 



pilofum. 



* Foliis decurrentihus. 



G s CARDUUS 



