S64 oulpkpkr's oomplbtb hebbal. 



■harp-pointed, iDdented about the edges, smooth above, 

 but with the middle rib of the upper part full of prickles. 

 The leaves, which grow on the stalks, like a trough, catch 

 the dew or rain which falls, and are likewise prickly un- 

 demeath. The stalks are divided into several branches, 

 bearing on their top large heads full of crooked prickly 

 hooka, among whicn grow several purplish hollow dowers, 

 each in a particular cell ; and after them come lougish, 

 iquare, striated seed. The root is pretty large and whitish. 



Place,— It is cultivated in the field. 



Time. — It flowers in July. 



TEASEL (WlLD,)—(I>ipsacusSilvestru.) 



Deicrip. — This grows larger and higher than the former 

 with the like stiff-crested and prickly stalk, especiallv in 

 the upper part; the stalk is single, divided into branches ; 

 the lower leaves are long, narrow, and prickly underneath. 

 The leaves, which grow on the stalk, are joined together, 

 encompassing the stalk, and catching the raio ; but it more 

 particularly differs in the heads, which hare their prickles 

 growing erect, not hooked like the former; and each head 

 having at the bottom several stiff prickly radii growing in 

 a circle; the flowers grow like the former, succeeded by the 

 like seed. The root is thick, and full of fibres. 



Ylojce. — It grows upon banks in the borders of fielda 



Time. — It lowers m Juoe and July. 



Chvemment and Virtues, — The virtues of both Teasels 

 are the same; the roots, which are the only p)arts used, are 

 said to have a cleansing faculty. The water found in the 

 hollow of the leaves is commended as a colly rium to cool 

 inflammation of the eyes, and as a cosmetic to render the 

 face fair. They are under the dominion of Venus. 



THISTLE (BLESSED.)— ((7arc?ttf« ^en«c?Mjri«.) 



Deicrip, — From asmall woody root, which perishes, after 

 the seed is ripe, there rises several reddish hairy stalks, 

 about two feet high, on which rise long hairy green leaves, 

 cut in on both sides into several lacinise or jags, each ter- 

 minating in a small harmless spinula. On the top of the 

 stalks grow the flowers in round heads, encompassed with 

 leaves smaller and shorter than those below, less jagged, 

 lomewhat more prickly : they are yellow andfistular, stand- 

 ing in scaly calices, each scale of which ends in a slender 

 long spine, denticulated on both sidea The seed is longish, 

 lound, and striated, of a brown colour, encompassed at the 



