OF TREES AND PLANTS. 189 



Two drams of it infufed in fix ounces of the diftilled" water of 

 its leaves effe&s a cure f- 



73. The purple-flowered, nutant Muk-Thiflle (t), which is one of 

 the mod common thiftles by way-fides and in wade places in fome 

 of the fouthern counties, efpecially about Cambridge, but not about 

 London, is very rare with us, except about Newcaflle,. between the 

 G/flA-houfes and Di^-hole, where it is in great plenty, 

 flowers in July and Auguft. The flowers are very large, and 

 pendulous, of a bright purplifli-red. The calyx is armed with 

 yellow prickles, exceedingly fharp and robuft. The feed is of a 

 light brown, fmooth, and glofly, crowned with hairs. It has a 

 faint fcent of mufk, very perceivable about the time of flowering, 



74 The procumbent, purple-flowered Star-ThiJlle (u), which is plen- 

 tiful on waftes, and by high-ways in many of the fouthern 



counties, 



f- MARTY N. locis citatis. 



/,; Carduus nutans. /. B. iii. p. 5*- cum bona Icone. *,;. Hift. i. p. 3 o8. Carduus 

 alatus major, flore rubro mofchato, capite nutante. Hift. 0. iii. p. 153- Carduus me 

 chatus flore arr-plo, capite deflcxo. Valll Aft.- 1718. p. I 95 - / * M.RIAN-, n. c. Ono- 

 pyxos amplo capite purpureo, anguftifolius. Barrel. Icon. 1116. omnlno nojlrum refer!, <I,j- 

 Luittamtn. VAIL. Onopordon. Park. Theatr. p. 681. Carduus foliis fpinofis fem.de- 

 currentibus, floribus nutantibus, fquamis calycinis fuperne patentibus. L,nn. A&. Stockb.. 

 m i p 204 Flo. Suec. n. 655. Carduus foliis finuatis decurrentibus marg.ne fpmofls, 

 ioribus folitariis nutantibus. Hort. ClifF. p. 393- *<!< '"g db - P- J 3^ Carduus foliorum 

 laciniis complicatis & fpinofis, capitulo fpinofo nutante. Hall. Helv. p. 676. 



(u) Carduus ftellatus. Dcd. Pempt. p. 733- Pur g- P- 44^. bene. Gr.r. p. 1003. emac. p. 

 ,166. Raj. Kift. i. p. 317- Syn. iii. p. 87. Dal. Pharm. p. 107. Carduus ftellatus foliis 

 Papaveris erratic!. C. B. Pin. p. 387- DilUn. App. p. 15- Carduus ftellatus, five Calci- 

 trapa. /. B. iii. p. 89. Tourn. Inft. p. 44- Martyn.Toum. i. p. 149- Hippophaeftum vel 

 Hipphaes DIOSCORIDIS. Column. Phyt. p. 85, &c. TAB. xxiv. Jacea ramofiffima, capite 

 longis acukis, ftellatim nafcentibus, armato. Hift. Oxm. iii. p. J44- Calcitrapa Officma- 



rum ; 



