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 the top of the ftalk, upon woolly peduncles : 

 the calyx is about the fize of a hazel-nut : the 

 fcales are acute but not pungent, the inferior ones 

 recurv'd, the others ered. 



C. foliis decurrentibus dentatis, margine fpinofis ; 

 floribus racemofis ere6lis pedunculis inermibus. 

 Sp. pi. 1151. KVet. herb. t. 21./. 4. Moris, hift.f. 

 7. /. 32./. 13. Gmdin. Fl. Sibir. II. p. SI- ^^^' 



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Marfti Thiftle. Anglis. 



In moift meadows and Ihady places. %. VII. 



The ftalk is fix feet high, furrow'd, having very 

 few leaves or branches, but defended everywhere 

 with numerous foliaceous prickly wings : the 

 leaves which are few, are green, a little downy 

 underneath, pinnatifid, the pmna; divided into 

 two fhort angular lobes, the nerves ending in 

 long prickles, and i\\z pimue terminating the leaf 

 much longer than the reft : the flowers are pur- 

 ple, and grow in clufters at the fummit of the 

 ftalk upon unarm'd peduncles, which clufters, 

 as they advance to maturity, open and become 

 a lax umbel : the calyces are vifcid, about half 

 an inch long, and one third of an inch thick, 

 and often a little woolly : the fcales are lanceo- 

 late, clofely imbricated, fucculent, rcddifli, tlie 

 outermoft recurv'd, patent, and terminated with 

 an innocent fpine, the innermoft pointed, but 

 without a fpine : the receptacle is letaccous, the 

 down feflile and plumofe. 



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