OF TREES AND PLANTS. 187 



difpofed on the ground in the form of a circle, on pedicles, femi- 

 pinnated ; the pinnules fometimcs with two, and fometimcs with 

 three, lobes, ferrated, and ending in ftiarp fpines. The flalk is 

 hardly an inch long. The head is very large, and long with 

 brown, triangular fcalcs, mining, and not prickly. The feed is 

 a little hooked, and winged with down, about two inches long. 



71. We have the elegant -woolly-headed Thljlle (r) about the 

 hedges under the hill by the church at Waifs-End, near Ne'w- 

 caftle, fparingly. The flalk is firm, of a man's height, and 

 branched. The leaves are very large, a foot or more in length, 

 rough, fucculent, and downy underneath, femi-pinnated ; the 

 pinnules long, with two lobes, the nerve of each lobe ending in 

 a robuil fpine, the terminale fpine longed. The flower is purple, 

 long, and bending. The heads are very large and fpherical, 

 with acute upright fcales, covered with a fine filk-like down, 

 each fcale terminated with a yellow prickle. The feed is white, 



Pin. p. 380. Raj. Hift. i. p. 310. curn defcriptione op'.ima. Cailina montana minor, acau- 

 los. Barrel. Icon. 493. Carduus humillimus SEPTENTRIONALIUM, flore purpuro-rubente. 

 Hift. Oxan. iii. p. 156. Ciifium acaulos flore purpureo. Town, Inft. p. 448. Vaill. A'6h 

 1718. p. 201. Carduus acaulis, calyce glabro. Linn. Act. Stockh. 1741. p. 204. Flo. Suec. 

 p. 236. n. 656. 



(r) Carduus Eriocephalos. Dad. Purg. p. 445. uptime. Pempt. p. 723. Clitf. Pann.p. 666. 

 Hift. p. cliv. Carduus tomentofus, CORONA FRATRUM Hcibaiiorum. Lob. ii. p. 9. eait-.m 

 Icon. Carduus tomentofus, CORONA FRATRIS diclus. Park. Theatr. p. 978. Raj. Hift. i. p. 

 311. Syn. iii. p. 195. Carduus capit^ lomentofo. I. B. iii. p. 57. Carduus capitc rotunJo 

 tomentofo. C. B. Pin. p. 382. Hill. Oxen. iii. p. 155. Town. Inft. 441. Ri'pp. Flo. Jen. p. 

 150. Carduus E:iocephalos, Offic. Da!. Pharm. p. 105. Eriocephalos capite rotunJo 

 maximo. Vaill. p. 204- .Carduus foliis feiTilibus bifariam pinnatifiJi?, laciniis alternis erefli 1 , 

 calycibus globofis villofis. Linn. Sp. PI. 823. Hortus Upf. 249. Carduus foliis finuatis 

 clecurrentibus : denticulis & fuperficie fpir.ofis, calycibus l.migeris. Roysn. lugdb. p. 133. 

 Cirfium foliis fpinofif, hirfutis, fcmipinnatis, pinnis fcmilobis, capita rigente, tomentofo, 

 fphaerico. Ha'!. Re!v. p 680. 



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