SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA i^QUALIS. 451 



Theflalk is two or three feet high, but little branched, 

 befct with prickly wings, fhort, and interrupted, 

 not running all the way from one leaf to another : 

 the leaves are pinnatifid, the nerves hairy, the 

 lobes angular, and arm'd with flrong fharp fplnes. 

 The peduncles are long, and bear each a fingle, 

 large purple, nodding flower, having a ftrong 

 muiky fmell, efpecially in the evening, when the 

 odour is condens'd. The fcales of the calyx are 

 commonly of a dull red color, terminated with 

 ftrong fpines, the exterior ones ftanding wide and 

 open, the interior ered : the receptacle is fetace- 

 ous : the down long but fimple* 



The dry'd flowers of this and the preceding fpecies 

 are ufed in fome countries as a rennet to curdle 

 milk. 



Many kinds of ThaUnce are fond of the flowers, 

 and hover over them at night. 



acanthoides CARDUUS foliis decurrentibus pinnatifidis mar- 



3. gine fpinofis, calycibus aggrcgatis feflllibus fub- 



cylindricis glabris. {Vet, herb, t. 21./. 3. Moris, 



Grey welted Thiftle. Anglis, 

 Upon banks and in wafl:e places near towns and 

 villages, o. VI. VII. ' 



The {talk is a yard high or more, but little branch'dj 

 v/idely wing'd, the wings finuated and edg'd with 

 prickles : the leaves are pinnatifid, woolly under- 

 neath, and nightly fo above, the lobes triangular, 

 G g 2 their 



