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top with & crown of stitf bristles, staDding out like the 

 feathers of a shuttlecock. The whole plant is rery bitter. 



Place. — It is sown every year in gardens. 



T'lm*.— It flowers in June. 



Government arid Virtue*. — Mars rules this Thistle. It is 

 cordial and sudorific, food for all sorts of malignant and 

 pestilential fevers, and for agues of all kinds. It destroys 

 worms in the stomach, and is good against all sorts of poison. 



THISTLE UPON THISTLE.— (Po^ycan/Aa Crupa,) 



Detcrip. — This has long thick roots with many fibres ; 

 the leaves are long and narrow, of a deep green, divided 

 at the edges, and very prickly ; the stalks are numerous, 

 tough, upright, branched, and edged with sharp prickles ; 

 the flowers stand on the tops of the branches in numerous 

 heads, and they are of a pale red. 



Place, — It is common under edges. 



Time, — It flowers in July. 



THISTLE (DWARF MAY.)— (Po^ycan^Aa Acaidot.) 



Descrip, — In some placed it is called the Dwarf Carliue 

 Thistle. It has a long and thick root, with many fibres ; 

 the leaves lie spread upon the ground, long and large, set 

 with sharp prickles ; the flowers grow low and large in the 

 middle, scarcely rising from the ground, of a fine purple. 



place.— li is common in dry pastures in many of our 

 •outhem counties, and likewise upon Blackheath. 



Time, — It flowers in July, 



THISTLE (LADY*8,y^Carduus Marianut,) (SUylrum 

 liarianum, 



Descrip,^Th\M is a stately and beautiful plant. The 

 root is long, and furnished with many fibres. The stalk is 

 upright, firm, regularly branched, five feet high. The leaves 

 ▼ery large, long, broad, irregularly notched at the edges, 

 of a deep green, veined and variegated with blueish white. 

 The flowers are Urge and purple, with prickly heads. 



Place, — It is common in open pastures and waste places. 



Time, — It flowers in July. 



THISTLE (LANCED GENTLE.)— (CHicwjZayMjeo^afto,) 

 {Cirtium Lanceolatum,) 



Descrip. — It grows upright, from which it is denomina- 

 ted a lance. T*he root is long and 8lender,but the stalk, 

 though toft, ie tough, three feet high, not divided into 



