66 I. VEGETABLES — Corymbifer/e. 



^Common cotton-thistle. Acanthium, Onopordum acari^ 

 thium. Flowers used to coagulate milk ; receptacle eaten as 

 artichokes. 



Cnicus eriophorus. Used in scirrhous tumours. 



Bastard saffron, Dyer's saffron, Carthamus, Cnicus, C, 

 tinctorius. Flowers, safflower, used to colour broths, also in dye- 

 ing, and to adulterate saffron; East Indian oiled ; seeds, j^arro^s' 

 com, purgative, emetic, yield oil. 



Atractylis humilis ; — A. gummifera. Analogous to CaV" 

 duus benedictus ; flowers coagulate milk. 



Distaff thistle, Atractylis, Cnicus lanatus. Root depu- 

 rative. 



*Saw wort, Serratula, S. tinctoria. Vulnerary ; dyes yellow 

 "with alum, but is inferior to weld. 



*Way thistle, Carduus arvensis, Serratida arvensis. Useful 

 in scirrhous tumours ; yields a sort of galls. 



Pacourina edulis. Receptacle and whole plant edible. 



*Blue bottle, Cyanus segetum, Centaurea cyanus ; — Great 

 blue-hottle, Cyanus major, Centaurea montana. Flowers cooling, 

 astringent, make a fine blue wash colour. 



*Knap weed, Matfellon, Jacea nigra, Centaurea Jacea ; — C. 

 stoebe. Flowers cooling, astringent. 



Great centaury, Centaurium majus, C, centaurium. Root 

 vulnerary, astringent, anti-dysenteric. 



*Star thistle, Calcitrappa, Carduus stellatus, Centaurea 

 calcitrapa ; — Carduus benedictus, C. benedicta. Root diuretic, 

 deobstruent, lithontriptic ; leaves alexiterial in infusion ; seeds 

 diaphoretic. 



*St. Barnaby*s thistle, Calcitrapa, Centaurea solstitialis. 

 Herb and seed opening, deobstruent. 



Centaurea behen. Root, white ben, ben album, rhapontic 

 blanc, rhubarbe indigene, rhaponticum behen ; used for rhubarb, 

 very astringent. 



Globe thistle, Crocodilian, Echinops sphcerocephalus. Root 

 used internally in bleeding of the nose ; seed diuretic. 



Little globe thistle, Ititro, Echinops Ritro. Root as^ 

 tringent. 



Echinops strigosus. Down of the flower, Spanish tinder, 

 used as amadou. 



100. CORYMBIFERiE. 



Cacalia alpina ; — C. Saracenica, Used in coughs ; the 

 juice allays the tickling in the throat. 



