SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA iEQUALlS. 449 

 are broad, Ihort, nearly triangular and woolly : 

 the receptacle is hairy ; the feed is crown'd with 

 a feflile plumofe down. 



arvenfis 3. SERRATULE foliis dentatls fpinofis. Sp. pL 

 1 149. {Ger. em, 11 73./. 4. Column, ecphras, L p, 

 45. /. 45. Moris, hift. f 7, /. 32./. 14. j 



Common Way-Thiftle, or Corn-Thiflle. Anglis* 



Foghenan, Cluaran. Gaulis. 



In cultivated grounds and by way-fides. tX, VII. 



The root is long and creeping : the flalk a yard 

 high, ereft, branch'd, fmooth and angular, but 

 not winged : the leaves are generally fmooth, of 

 a lanceolate figure, either indented on the edges, 

 or pinnatifid, the lacinU undulated, angular and 

 dented ; the dents ending in fpines : the flowers 

 are commonly purple, but fometimes white, and 

 grow in loofe umbels, one or two upon long 

 woolly peduncles : the caly^ is longifh, and con- 

 * fifls of numerous compadl lanceolate fcales, which 



end in a Ihorc harmlefs fpine: the receptacle has 

 iliort fetaceous hairs : the down on the feeds is 

 long and plumofe. 



The plant when burnt yields good afhes for glafs- 

 making. 



CARDUUS. Gen, fl 925. 



Cal ovatus, imbricatus, fquamis fpinofis. Recept. 

 pilafum. 



"•* Foliis decurrcntihus, 



G g CARDUUS 



