l88 . OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



compreffed, almoftoval, and obliquely truncated. The placenta 



isefculent, as is the ftalk, wholefome and nouriihing. 



, j The elegant purple-flowered Ladies Thljlk (s) is plentiful in the 

 lane"' at ,/,, leading to the church, very near the village. 

 I have obferved it alfo under a hedge on the banks of the Tync 

 by the Qftium of Ml I in g ton-burn, on the weft Me, near Hwdtn- 

 pans I have not feen it in any other parts with us. The leave 

 are very lar^e, with an undulated, plicated margin, variouily 

 fcrrated, the denticles ending in fharp fpines, of a deep glofly 

 E reen, the nerves milk-white, which give it a beautiful appear- 

 ance The ftalk is from five to fix feet high, firm, and branched, 

 The flowers are large, of a bright purple. The calyx is armed 

 with robuft prickles. It flowers in July and Auguft. The feed 

 is ufed by emulfion for acute pains and difeafes of the breaft 

 with fuccefs*; efpecially for that kind of pectoral rheumatifm 

 which is faid to be fometimes confounded with the pleunfy. 



fl ) Carduus MARI*. Trag. p. 8 S 0. bcne. Ger. p. 989. P- "49- *7- Hift- i- P- 

 ,. Syn. iii. p. 87. Dal. Pharm. p. 105. Marianus carduus. Cord. Diof. 1. m. c. 14. 

 Carduus laaeus. Matih. p. 676. folii. incifis, Cam. Epit. 445- Carduus leucographus . Dod. 

 Pempt. P . 7 ai, 7*2. Silybum, Carduus Mari., & laaeus. Lob. Icon. ii. p. 7. ***> Icon. 

 Carduus Marianus, f. lafleus. Tabern. p. 699. Carduus Marianus, f. had, macuhs no- 

 tatus / B iii p. 52- Carduus albis maculis notatus vulgaris. C. B. P.n. p. 381 

 >.'. iii. P- 155- rourn. Inft. p. 440- Martyn. Tourn. i. p. 143, H4- &*. Ind. A- p. 

 ,,6 Dill Giff. p. 129. Silybum albis maculis notatum, flore purpureo. Fadl. p. 219- 

 Icon .' Carduus fquamis calycinis margine & apice fpinofis. Linn. Hort. Cl.ff. p. 393- 

 Hort.Upf. 250. R vm . lugdb. p. .33- Silybum nervis foliorum albis. He 

 684. 



* Semina in medkina adhibentur, amara, farinofa, ad emulfiones in morbis pedoris lau- 

 data etiam certioribus experimentis, (B RE SLAV. 1718. P- H9- 1063.) quibus conftat, d 

 lores punaorioa & coagulatuo! fanguinem earuoi ufu fublatos fuifle. 



Two 



