^YNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA iEQUALIS. 453 

 the top of the ftalk, upon woolly peduncles : 

 the calyx IS about the fi ze of a hazel-nut: the 

 fcales are acute but not pungent, the inferior ones 

 recurv'd, the others ered. 



£-J /^ 5. Q foliis decurrentibus dentatis, margine fpinofis ; 

 floribus racemofis eredis pedunculis inermibus. 

 Sp, pL 1 1 51. {Pet, herb, t. 21./. 4. Moris, hift.f, 

 7. /. 32./. 13. Gmelin, Fi. Sibir. 11. p. SI- ^^^' 

 23./. 2.) 



Marih Thiftle. Anglis. 



In moifl; meadows and fhady places. 1;. VII. 



The ftalk is ^\x feet high, furrow'd, having very 

 few leaves or branches, but defended every where 

 with numerous foliaceous prickly wings : the 

 leaves which are few, are green, a little downy 

 underneath, pinnatifid, the pinn^ divided into 

 two fhort angular lobes, the nerves ending in 

 long prickles, and the pinn^ terminating the leaf 

 much longer than the reft : the flowers are pur- 

 ple, and grow in clufters at the fummit of the 

 ftalk upon unarm'd peduncles, which clufters, 

 as they advance to maturity, open and become 

 a lax umbel : the calyces are vifcid, about half 

 an inch long, and one third of an inch thick, 

 and often a little woolly : the fcales are lanceo- 

 late, clofely imbricated, fucculent, reddifli, the 

 outermoft recurv'd, patent, and terminated with 

 an innocent fpine, the innermoft pointed, but 

 without a fpine : the receptacle is fetaceous, the 



down feftile and plumofe. 



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