454 SYKGENESIA : POLYGAMIA ^QUALIS. 



The tender llalk of this anci moft of the thirties 

 are efculent, being firft peel'd and boil'd, In 

 this manner the inhabitants of Smoland in Sweden, 

 as Linnaeus informs us, often eat them. 



'*^ Foliis feffdibus. 



marianuse CARDUUS foLis amplexicaulibus haftato-pin- 

 natifidis fpinofis ; calycibiis aphyllis, fpinls 

 canaliciilatis duplicato-fpinofis. Sp. pi. 115^. 

 {Ger. emac. ii§o. Moris, hijl.f. 7. /. 30./. i. or- 

 dinis medii addextrajn. Blackwell t. 79.) 



Milk Thiftle. Anglis. 



Upon banks and wafte places about towns and vil- 

 lages, but probably only an outcaft of gardens. 

 Upon the caftle rock at Edinburgh. Dr. Farfons. 

 O. VII. 



The leaves are large, fmooth, green, but reticulated 

 with" white nerves : one large ereft purple 

 flower terminates each branch : the peduncle is 

 almoft naked for fome didance under the flower: 

 the fcales of the calyK are terminated with an 

 oval appendage which is edged with fliarp fpines, 

 the extreme one of which is longefl: and very 

 fl:rong and pungent : the down wlvich crowns the 

 feeds is plum.ofe. 



There is a variety of this, the leaves of v/hich are 

 defliitute of white veins. 



The tender leaves ftrip'd of their fpines, are by 

 fome boil'd and eaten as garden- fl:ufi\ 



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