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An emulfion of the feeds has fometimes been us'd 

 to thin the blood, and to cure ftiches and pleu- 

 rifies, but at prefent is rarely pra6tis'd. 



CARDUUS foliis feffilibus bifariam pinnatifidis, 

 laciniis alternis ereftis, calycibus globofis villofis. 

 Sp.pL 1153. (Ger. em. 1152. /. 6. Pet. herb. t. 

 i\.f. 8. Miller, icon. 293. bona.) 



Woolly 'headed Thiftle. Anglis. 



By the fea fide between Blacknefs and the ^mn's- 

 Ferry., according to Sibbald? i . VII. 



The ftalk is four or five feet high, ftrong, rough, 

 furrow'd and branched : the lower leaves which 

 fpread on the ground are often two feet long : 

 they are green and rough on the upper fide, but 

 white and woolly underneath, and have a leafy 

 border running along the middle rib : the 

 fegments of the leaves point alternately upwards 

 and downwards, and are divided into two lobes, 

 the nerve of one of them ending in a ftrong fharp 

 fpine, the other long and lanceolate : the branches 

 are terminated with large fphserical heads of pur- 

 ple flowers : the fcales of the calyx are lanceolate, 

 ereft, terminated with a yellow fpine, and arc 

 curioufly interwoven with a fine cobweb down : 

 the feeds are white, nearly oval, comprefled, ob- 

 liquely truncated, and crown'd svith a plumofe 



down. 

 This is one of the moft elegant plants of the p-o/n/J. 

 The receptacles are pulpous and efculent, lu<.e 



thofe of the artichoke. 



CARDUUS 



