186 OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



63. Blue-flowered Mountain SONCHUS, or Soiju-Th'ifth (oj. On the 

 borders of corn-fields about Willington and Hoivden-P 'ans , Sparingly. 

 Its ufual height is from three to five feer. The flowers arc on vil- 

 lofc glutinous pedicles, in a long fpike, of an elegant blue co- 

 lour. It flowers in July and Auguft. The feed is ovated and 

 comprefTed, with three^r/V or furrows, and winged with down* 



69. The great, Englt/h, foft, or gentle Thi/lle, or melancholy Thlflle 

 (p}, is common in moid alpine woods and meadows. The (talk 

 is very handfome, gradually tapering from the bafe to the top, 

 from two to three feet high. The flower is large, of a bright 

 purple. The calyx is imbricated. It flowers in June and July. 



70. The purple-fa-wered dwarf Carline Thlflle fqj is not unfrequent 

 in mountainous paftures, and on dry banks. The leaves are 



difpofed 



(o) Sonchus caeruleus. Cam Epit. p. 281. bene. Sonchus levis cseruleo flore. Cluf. Paa- 

 non. p. 650, 651. Sonchus levior Aujlriachus iii. cceruleo flore. Ejufd. Hift. p. cxlvii. Son- 

 chus levis quartus folio caeruleo. Tabern. p. 191. Sonchus caeruleus latifolius. /. B. ii. p. 

 1005. Raj, Hift. p. 225. Vaill. p. 258. Scbeucbz. Itin. i. p. 50. Sonchus levis laciniatus vel 

 Sonchus alpinus caeruleus. C. B. Pin. p. 124. Hift. Oxan. iii. p. 62. Ladluca montana lati- 

 folia laciniata flore caeruleo. Town. Inft. Seheuchz. Itin. vi. p. 459. Sonchus flore cxruleo. 

 Royen. lugdb. p. 126. Sonchus LAPPONUM altiflimus, floribus caeruleis. Linn. Flo. Lapp. n. 

 290. Sonchus caule eredo, foliis pinnato haftatis, apice cordato triangulis, floribus racemo- 

 fis. Hort. Cliff, p. 385. Royen. p. 128. Sonchus floribus fpicatis caeruleis. Hall. Helv. p. 754. 



(p) Cirfium BRITANNICUM. Cluf. Pann. p, 657. Cirfium ANGLICUM ii. Ejufd. Hift. 

 p. cxiviii. cum Icone non optima. Cirfium BRITANNICUM Clufil repens. I.E. iii. p. 46. 

 Raj. Hift. i. p. 306. Syn. iii. p. 193. Cirfium fingulari capitulo fquamato, vel incanurn 

 alterum. C. B. Pin. p. 377. n. v. ex CLUSIO. Scheucbz. Itin. iv. p. 332. Cirfium BRI- 

 TANNICUM repens, foliis majoribus fubtus incanis. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 149. Town. Inft. p. 

 447. Cirfium Helenii folio, capitulo inagno. Vaill. Act. 1718. p. 200. Cirfium foliis lon- 

 giflime lanccolatis, ferratis, fubtus tomentofis. Hall. Helv. p. 683. Cirfiun irmranum 

 foliis longis ferratis fubtus incanis. Ibid. t. 21. Icon elegantiffima. 



(q) Chamseleon exiguus. Trag. Hift. p. 852. bene. 1. B. iii. p. 62. Carlina minor pur- 

 pureo flore. Cluf. Hift. p. clvi. cum Icone. Carlina acaulos minor, purpureo flore. C. B. 



Pin. 



