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acanthhim ONOPORDUM calycibus fquaro^fis, fquamis pa- 



'• tentibus i foliis ovato-oblongis finuatis. Lin fyji. 



nat.p. 531. S-p. pi. 11^,8. {Ger. em. 1149. /. i. 



Moris, hijl.f. 7. /. 30./. 1. fuperioris <^ medii or- 



dinis. Loes. FL Prujf. p. 261. icon. Si.) 



Cotton Thiftle. Angiis. 



In wafte places near towns and villages, as 2itWeems 

 on the coaft of Fifc^ and half a mile beyond 

 Prejlon-Pans, he. $ . VIII. 

 The ftalk is fix feet high, branched, and wing*d 

 throughout from the bafe to the calyx : the ftalk 

 and leaves are fometimes cover'd all over with a 

 white cotton down, fo as to appear quite hoary • 

 at other times this dov/ny covering is flight, and 

 then they put on a pallid green color : the leaves 

 are felTile, decurrent, of an oval-JanceoIateTorm, 

 finuated with triangular dents, each angle endinp 

 with a ftrong fpine : the heads of flowers are vio- 

 let-color'd, and terminate the branches : thefcales 

 of the calyx ftand open, and end in a fharp fpine : 

 the receptacle is pierc'd with quadrangular cells 

 which receive the ktdi^, crown'd with fefljle ca- 

 pillary down. 

 Tlie receptacles of the flowers, and the tender 

 flralks pecl'd and boild, may be eaten in the fame 

 manner as artichokes and cardoons. 

 I A decodtion of the root is x-eckoned a fpecific in a 



|P recent Gonorrhea, according to Scopo/i. Flor. Car- 



niol. 10 1 3, 



CARLINA. 



