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the pooreft and worft Soil produc- 

 tive of Beauties, did we but care- 

 fully attend to the adapting proper 

 Plants for it, and not endeavour to 

 force it to produce Things which 

 require a quite contrary Soil. The 

 firit Sort is fomctimes ufed in Me- 

 dicince 



CARD TAG A j Mother-wort. 



This Plant is cultivated in forae 

 Gardens for medicinal Ufe ; but 

 fince it is a Plant of no great 

 Beauty, I fliall not troubk the 

 Reader with any other Account of 

 it, but only that it will grow, if 

 fbwn in the Spring,- in almoft any 

 Soil or Situation i and if once fuf- 

 fer'd to fhed its Seed on the Ground, 

 will become a very troublefome 

 Weed. 



CARDINALS FLOWER j vkle 

 Rapuntium. 



CARDOON or Chardon j vids 

 Cinara. 



CARDUUSi Thiftle. 

 The Characters are ;■ 



The Leaves grow alternately on 

 the Branchesy and are frickly, and 

 the Heads are for the mqft part 

 fquar?2ofe and prickly. 



There are leveral Species of this 

 Plant mention'd in Books of Bo- 

 tany i but fince there are few of 

 them that have any Beauty or Ufe 

 (to us at prcfcnt knovvn) To I fhall 

 mention two or three of the moil 

 remarkable Kinds in this Place, and 

 proceed. 



1 . Carduus j ffUts 7nacuUs no- 

 tatiis, "unlgaris. C. B. The Milky, 

 cr Holy Thiftle. 



2. Carduus > nutans. y. B. 

 The Musk, or Nodding ThiflJe. 



5. Carduus J eriocephalos. Dod. 

 The woolly-headed Thiflle. 



Thefe Sorts of Thirties grow 

 wild in many Parts of Engla?id; 

 the firil commonly upon the Sca- 

 (^oall?. but the fccoud ufually wpoa 



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Arable Land in many Places j & 

 laft is lefs common than either of 

 the former, being found but in 

 few Places in England. ThefC;, 

 and all the other Sorts of Thirties, 

 may be cultivated by fowing their 

 Seeds in the Spring in almoft any 

 Soil, and will flower and feed the 

 fecond Year, and fbon atter perirti, 

 moft of them being biennial Plants : 

 The firft Sort is iometimes ufcd in 

 Medicine, jnd is call'd in the Dil^" 

 peniatory, Cardans Mar id. 



CARDUUS RENEDICTUS j 

 vide Cnicus. 



CARDUUS FULLONUM 3 vide 

 Dipfacus. 



CARNATION i i;zVc aryophyl- 

 lus. 



CARPINUSj the Hornbeam, &r 

 Hardbeam-Trec. 



The Characters are ; 



It hath Leaves like 'the Elm or 

 Beech-Tree: Ihg Katkins (or Male- 

 fowers) are placed at remote Dif~ 

 tances from the Fruit on the fame- 

 Tree ; and the outward Shell (f th& 

 Fruit is vpinged. 



The Species are^ 



1. Carpinus. Jyod, The com- 

 mon Hornbeam-tree. 



2. Cakyikvs -y folris ex lateo va- 

 riegatls. The ftrip'd Hornbeam. 



' 3 » Carpinus 5 /e« Oflrya, Ulma 

 fimilis, fructuracemofoy Lupulo fimi- 

 lis. C. B. The Hop Hornbeam. 



4. Carpinus i Virginiana, foref- 

 cens. Tluk. The Virginian flower- 

 ing Hornbeam. 



The firft of thefe Trees is often 

 cultivated in the Nurfcries to make- 

 Hedges for Wildernefles and Oran- 

 geries i but of late it hath not been 

 ib much ufed for that Purpofe, the 

 decay'd Leaves of the Tree con- 

 tinuing on all the Winter, as do v 

 thofe of the Oak, rendering them j| 

 very unfightlyina Pleafure-Garden, 

 which, together with the perpe- 

 tual 



