454 SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA ^QUALIS. 



The tender flalk of this and moll of the thiflles 

 are efculent, being firft peel'd and boil'd. In 

 this manner the inhabitants of Smoland in Sweden, 

 as Llnnaus Informs us, often eat them. '■ 



** Foliis fejfilibus. 



marianuse CARDUUS follis amplexicaulibus haftato-pin- 

 natifidis fpinofis ; calycibus aphyllis, fpinis 

 canaliculatis duplicato-fpinofis. Sp. pL 1153- 

 {Ger» emac, 1150. Moris, hijl, f, 7. /. 30./. i. or- 

 dims medii ad dextram, Blackwell t, 79.) 



Milk Thiflle. Anglis, 



Upon banks and wafte places about towns and vil- 

 lages, but probably only an outcaft of gardens. 

 Upon the caille rock at Edinburgh, Dr. Parfons. 

 O.VIL 



The leaves are large, fmooth, green, but reticulated 

 with v/hite nerves : one large eredt purple 

 flower terminates each branch : the peduncle is 

 almoft naked for fome diiiance under the flower : 

 the fcales of the calyx are terminated with an 

 oval appendage which is edged with fharp fpines, 

 the extreme one of which is longefl; and very 

 llrcng and pungent : the down which crowns the 

 feeds is plumofe. 



There is a variery of this, the leaves of which are 

 deflltute of white veins. 



The tender leaves flrip'd of their fpines, are by 

 fome boil'd and eaten as garden-flufl^ 



An 



