SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA ^QUALIS. 451 



Theflalk is two or three feet high, but little branch'd, 

 befct with prickly wings, fhort, and interrupted, 

 not running all the way from one leaf to another : 

 the leaves are pinnatifid, the nerves hairy, the 

 lobes angular, and arm'd with ftrong iliarp fplnes. 

 The peduncles are long, and bear each a fingle, 

 large purple, nodding flower, having a ftrong 

 mufky fmell, cfpecially in the evening, when the 

 odour is condens'd. The fcales of the calyx are 

 commonly of a dull red color, terminated with 

 ftrong fpines, the exterior ones ftanding wide and 

 open, the interior ereft : the receptacle is fetace- 

 ous : the down long but ftmple. 



The dr}''d flowers of this and the preceding fpecies 

 are uied in fome countries as a rennet to curdle 

 milk. 



Many kinds of PhaUn^ are fond of the flowers, 

 and hover over them at night. 



acanthoides CARDUUS foliis decurrentibus pinnatifidis mar- 

 3. gine fpinofis, calycibus aggregatis feflilibus fub- 



cylindricis glabris. (Pet. herb, t, 21./. 3. Moris, 

 hiji.f. 7. /. 31./. 13.) 

 Grey welted Thiftle. Anglis. 

 Upon banks and in v/afte places near towns and 

 villages, o. VI. VII. 



The ftalk is a yard high or more, but little branch'd, 

 widely wing'd, the wings fmuated and edg'd with.. 

 prickles : the leaves are pinnatifid, woolly under- 

 neath, and nightly fo above, the lobes triangular, 

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