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ecloar is a pale green, and they are deeply divided at the 

 ed>re8 into pointed segments; and at the end are formed in 

 the same manner, like the point of a spear. The flowers 

 grow at the tops of the branches, and are large and purple. 



P/ ace,— li is common in waste grounds. 



TifM, — It flowers in July. 



THISTLE (STAR.)--iCeniaurea Calcitrapa.) 



Descrip. — This has narrow leaves lyinff next the ground, 

 cut deeply on the edges, soft, a little woolly, green all over, 

 among which rise up weak stalks parted into branches, all 

 lying to the ground, so it seems a pretty bush, set with the 

 same kind of leaves up to the tops, where severally stand 

 small whitish green beads, set with sharp white pricks, 

 which are somewhat yellowish; out of the middle whereof 

 rises the flowers, composed of many small reddish purple 

 threads ; and in the heads, after the flowers are past, 

 come small whitish round seed lying down as the others do. 

 The root is small, long, and woody, perishing every year, 

 and rising again of its own sowing. 



Place. — It erows wild in the fields about London. 



Time. It flowers early, and seeds in July, and some- 

 times in August. 



Virtuee. — The seed made into powder, and drank in wine, 

 provokes urine, and helps to break the stone, and expel it. 

 The root pwwdered, and taken in wine, is good against the 

 plague and nestilence ; drank in the morning fasting, it is 

 tery profltaole for a fistula in any part of the body. 



THISTLE ^KY.y-{CnicusArvensii,) {Cirsium Arvente,) 



{Serratvia Arvensis.) 



Detcrtp. — The root is white and creeping; the stalks are 

 numerous, tough, of a pale KXeen, smooth, not much 

 branched, and a yard high. The leaves are numerous, long, 

 moderately broad, and of a strung green ; they are deeply 

 and irregularly notched and siniiated on the edges, beuBet 

 by long prickles. The flowers terminate the branches in 

 numerous small heads, and are of a pale purple. 



place. — It is common in fields ana unaer hedges. 



Time, — It flowers in July. 



THISTLE (WELTED TAAY,)—{Carduut Acanthoides.) 



Deecrip, — The root is long, thick, and furnished with 

 many fibres. The stalk is three feet high, with prickly 

 membranes from the base of the leaves, of a duaky green. 



