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WHITE THISTLE 



Carduus Kelseyi. Composite Family. 



Stems: tall, striate. Leaves: alternate, linear, sinuately toothed. 

 Flowers: heads in a leafy spike subtended by linear, cut, bristly-fringed, 

 cobweb-hairy leaves. Fruit: pappus of long plumose bristles. 



The stems of this Tall Thistle are very cobweb-woolly, 

 and the leaves are toothed and fringed with weak spines, 

 being green above and cobweb-hairy beneath. The cream- 

 coloured flower heads grow several together in a leafy spike. 



Cardus foliosus, or Leafy Thistle, has erect robust stems, 

 and is very leafy up to the few somewhat woolly flower 

 heads, which have a pale corolla with lobes equalling the 

 throat. The leaves are elongated, toothed with rigid 

 prickles and cobweb-woolly beneath. 



