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BRITISH 
HERBAL. 
t1; Woolly-headed Thiftle. 
Carduus tomentofus. 
The root is fibrous. 
The ftalk is thick, upright, branched, and 
five feet high. 
The leaves are long, and moderately broad ; 
and they are very beautifully divided ; fomewhat 
in the manner of the /pear-zhifiles, but with more 
numerous and more regular fegments. Their co- 
lour is a deep green. 
‘The flowers grow at the tops of the branches 
in large woolly heads; and they are of a fine deep 
purple. 
We have it in our weftern counties, but not 
common. It flowers in Auguft. 
C.Bauhine calls it Carduus capite rotundo tomen- 
tefo. Others, Carduus eriocepbalus, and Corona 
fratrum. 
12. Lady’s Thiftle. 
Carduus Maria, 
This is a ftately and very beautiful plant ; and, 
if brought from a remote part of the world, 
would be efteemed in gardens. 
The root is long, and furnifhed with nume- 
rous fibres. : 
The ftalk is upright, firm, regularly branched, 
and five feet high. 
The leaves are very large, long, broad, irregu- 
larly notched at the edge, of a deep, fine green 
colour, and veined and variegated with white. 
The flowers are very large and purple, and 
the heads are prickly. 
It is common in wafte places, and flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Carduus albis maculis notatus 
vulgaris, Others, Carduus laéfeus, 
13. Hairy Lady’s Thiftle. 
Carduus Marie hirfutus. 
The root is fibrous and white. 
The ftalk is upright, prickly, firm, not much 
branched, and four feet high. 
The leaves are very large, long, broad, den- 
tated, and finuated at the edges, of a pale green, 
fomewhat hairy, and not at all variegated with 
white : they are fet with fharp prickles, and co- 
ver the ftalk very thick. 
The flowers grow at the tops of the branches 
in large heads ; and are of a pale red. 
It is not unfrequent in wafte grounds, and 
flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Cerduus Maria hirfutus non macu- 
latus. 
14. Cotton-Thiftle. 
Carduus tomentofus acanthium difius. 
The root is long, white, and hung with many 
fibres, 
DIVISION I FO 
1. Globe-Thiftle. 
Carduus capite [pherico, 
The root is fibrous. 
The firft leaves are extremely broad, flightly 
indented, fharp pointed, of a whitifh green, cov- 
ered with a cottony matter, and fet round with 
prickles. 
The ftalk is five feet high, edged with prickly 
membranes, and fet thick with the fame kind of 
leaves. 
The flowers fland in very large heads; and 
are of a bright red, with a tinge of purple. 
It is common on ditch-banks, and flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Spina alba tomentofa latifolia 
Syloeftris. Others, Acanthium. 
15. Common Star-Thiftle, 
Carduus fellaris calcitrapa dius. 
The root is long, flender, and hung with a 
few fibres. 
The firft leaves fpread circularly upon the 
ground; and they are long, narrow, and den- 
ted at the edges. 
The ftalk is two feet high 5 
green, and prickly. 
The leaves on it refemble thofe from the root. 
but they are more. deeply divided, and their co. 
lour is a pale green. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches ; 
and are large, and of a faint red, fometimes 
white. 
The heads of the flowers are armed with 
prickles, which fpread out like the rays of a ftar. 
We have it in dry paftures, but not common. 
It flowers in July. 
C.Bauhine calls it Carduus ftellatus foliis papa- 
veris erratici. Others, Carduus ftellaris, and 
Calcitrapa. . 
and is of a pale 
16. Solftitial Thiftle. 
- Carduus ftellatus luteus. 
The root is long, flender, black, and hung 
with a fewffibres. 
_ The firft leaves fpread circularly on the grounds 
and they are long, deeply divided, and of a faint 
green. 
The ftalk is tough, firm, upright, and two 
feet high. 
The leaves on it refemble thofe from the root 5 
and they are of a faint green. 
The flowers ftand in fmall prickly heads at the 
tops of the branches; and they are of a beauti- 
ful yellow. 
We have it in dry paftures in fome parts of 
England; but it is not common. It flowers 
in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Carduus fteilatus luteus foltis 
Cyani, Others, Carduus Solftitialis. And we, 
The St. Barnaby’s thiftle. 
The zhifles in general poffefs but {mall medici- 
nal virtues. . The young fhoots are efculent, 
and in moft kinds very well tafted. 
ROEE GaN ESP Be TRS: 
The ftalk is two feet and a half high, round, 
tough, glutinous to the touch, and covered with 
a purplifh duft. t 
The leaves are long, moderately broad, deeply 
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