45^ SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA ^QUAL^S. 



from the aU of the leaves : the fcales of the 

 calyx are lanceolate, cred, acute, but not pun- 

 gent, and of a dull purple color : the ftyles are 

 much longer than the aniher<£ -, and the down 

 of the feeds is plumofe. 

 A variety of this fometimes occurs, having leaves 

 near their fummits pinnatifid, as figur'd in Oe- 

 ^^er's Fl. Dan. tab 109. 



CARDUUS acaulis calyce glabro. Sp. pi 1156. 

 (Ger. em. 1158./. 3. Vet. herb. /. 21./. 6. Moris, 

 hijl.f. 7. /. 32./. 22.) 



Dwarf Carline Thiftle. Anglis, 



In dry paftures, but not common. %* VII. 



The leaves lie clofe to the ground round the root, 

 fo as to occupy a circle of a foot or more in dia- 

 meter, upon which fpace no other plants or 

 hcibage can grow. They are therefore very 

 detrimental to paftures. Thefe leaves are pin- 

 natifid, their fegments angular, divided into two 

 or three lobes, which are edged with ftrong 

 fpincs • one head of purple flowers, and fome- 

 times more, ftands in the centre of the leaves up- 

 on a ftalk hardly an inch high : the fcales of the 

 calyx are fmooth, flat, and acute, but not pun- 

 gent : the down of the feeds is plumofe, and an 

 inch lono; ; the feeds not above i-6th of an inch. 



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ONOPORDUM. Gen. pi 927. 

 Recept. favofum. Cal fquam^ mucronat^e. 



ONOPORDUM 



