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their edges angular and prickly : the flowers are 

 of a pale red color, almoit white, are fcflile, and 

 grow a few here and there upon the ftalk, but 

 in clufters at the fummit : the calyces are acutely 

 conical before flowering, but cylindrical after- 

 wards : the fcales are lanceolate, quite fmooth, 

 a little reflex'd at the apex, and end with a fpine : 

 the down is feflile, long and fimple. 



The CARDUUS acanthoides^ of Linnaus^ is cer- 

 tainly a different plant from that which we have 

 here defcribed, as h\s fpecific difference and defcrip- 

 tion will by no means accord with ours ; but as 

 the fynonyms which he has cited under his C, 

 acanthoides^ belong to our plant, we have thought 

 proper to retain his trivial name^ and apply a new 

 Jpecific difference. 



criJpMS 4. CARDUUS foliis decurrentibus finuatis, margine 

 fpinofis ; floribus aggregatis terminalibus, fqua- 

 mis inermibus fubanftatis patulis. Lm. fyft. nat. 

 p. 529. Sp. pL 1 150. (LoefeL PruJJ'. 34. /. 5. Ger, 

 em. 1173./. lO 

 Thiftle upon Thiftle. Jnglis, 

 By way-fides and in wade places. G. VI. VII. 

 The ftalk is green, three or four feet high, branch'd, 

 brittle, uninterruptedly winged throughout, the 

 wings being crifped or curled : the leaves are 

 • foft and woolly underneath with green veins, 



finuated or pinnatifid on the edges, the lobes 

 angular and prickly : the flowers are commonly 

 purple, and mofl: of ihem grow in clufters at 



the 



