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The BRI TSH AE Re ee 
1, Englifh Gentle Thiftle. 
Cirfium Anglicum, 
The root is compofed of numerous, fpreading 
fibres. 
The ftalk is upright, firm, not much branched, 
and two feet high. 
The leaves are long ‘and narrow: they are of 
a pale green, covered lightly with a greyifh, 
hoary matter, and at the edges befet with nume- 
rous, flight prickles. 
The flowers grow at the tops of the ftalks; 
and they are large and purple. 
' Itis found on marfhy ground in many parts 
of England, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ciz/ium majus fingulari ca- 
pitulo. a 
The leaves are fometimes divided flightly at 
the edges; and the flower is not unfrequently 
white. 
2. Great Gentle Thiftle. 
Cirfium majus nutante flore. 
The root is fibrous, and white. 
The ftalk is firm, upright, whitifh, and five 
Feet high: it is rarely much branched, and to- 
ward the top it ufually bends with the weight of 
the flower. 
The leaves are very large, oblong, broad, 
woolly and whitifh on the upper fide, and quite 
white underneath. 
The flowers are large and purple: ufually there 
is only one at the extremity of the ftalk. 
It is found in mountainous damp places, but 
is not common, 
Ge Boo N 
C. Bauhine calls it Cirftum Singulari capitulo 
Squammato. Others, Cirfium Britanicun repens, 
The flower in this alfo is fometimes white. 
3. Blue Mountain Cirfium, 
Cirfium bumile polyanthemum fore cerulefcente, 
The root is compofed of thick, white fibres, 
The ftalk is upright, tough, whitifh 
two feet high. 
The leaves are oblong, broad, and of a pale 
green: they are lightly downy on the furface, 
and edged with five weak prickles, 
The flowers terminate the tops of the branches 
in clufters ; and they are large, and of a bluith 
purple. 
The feeds are large and brown. 
It is not uncommon in Wales, 
July. 
Ray calls it Cirfium bumile mon 
folio polyanthemum. Merret, 
leo fore. 
> and 
and flowers in 
tanum cynogloffi 
Carduus mollis Céru- 
4. Dentated Cirfium, 
Cirfium Soliis anguftis dentatis, 
The root is long and flender. 
The ftalk is weak, tough, divided into a few 
branches, and two feet high. 
The leaves are long, and very narrows; of a 
greyifh green, and ferrated at the edges, 
The flowers are {mall and numerous, 
of a bright purple. 
Ray calls this Cirfium montanum Polyanthemum 
Jalicis folio. THe thought it but a variety of the 
former: but I have both the plants, and they 
are certainly diftinét. pre 
and are 
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THISTLE. 
C3) Ae Re DIU: G88. 
rp flowers are placed in great numbers in a common cup. This is compofed of many fealy 
fubftances, pointed at the ends; and it fwells out in a rounded form. Fa 
of a fingle petal ; and is tubular, and fmall at the bottom, 
it is divided into five fegments, one more deeply feparated than the others. 
with down. ‘The leaves are befet with ftrong and fharp petals, 
DIVISION I. 
1. Common Way Thiftle. 
Carduus vulgatifimus. 
The root is white and creeping. 
The ftalks are numerous, tough, of a pale 
green, fmooth, not much branched, and a yard 
high. 
The leaves are numerous, long, moderately 
broad, and of a ftrong green: they are deeply. 
and irregularly notched and finuated at the edges, 
and befet with long and fharp prickles, 
The flowers terminate the branches in nume- 
rous fmall heads ; and are of a pale purple. 
It is common in fields and under hedges. It 
flowers in June. ee 
C. Bauhine calls it Carduus repens folio foncki. 
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BRITISH 
ch flower is formed 
and fpread out broad at the top; where 
The feeds are winged 
and in many fpecies alfo the ftalks. 
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2: Mufk-Thiftle, 
Carduus mofchatus capitulo nutante. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The ftalk is firm, upright, of a brownith co- 
lour, and five feet high, 
The leaves are numerous, large, and divided 
at the edges: they are of a dufky green, and be- 
fet with fharp prickles, 
The flower is large and purple ; and frequently 
there is but one at the extremity of the ftalk, 
which hangs drooping. } 
It is very common in damp paftures, and 
flowers in June. ‘ 
J. Bauhine calls it Carduus nutans. C. Bau. 
hine, Cirfium majus JSingulari capitulo magno. 
3. Thiftle 
