456 SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA iEQUALIS. 



CARDUUS foliis amplexicaulibus lanceolatis cili- 



beterof yl* ^^.j^ integris laciniatifquc, caulc fubunifioro, ca- 



lyce inermi. Sp. pL 1154. (^^^« herb. t. 22./. i. 



Ger. em. iiS^. f. 5. & fig, Cirjii anglici Lobelii. 



Moris, h'lfi, f 7. /. 29./. 136^ 12. ^ fortaffeii) 



Soft or gentle Thiille. Anglis. 



In low marlliy paftures and by the fides of lakes, 

 but not common. We obferv'd it in the ifland 

 oi Ifia. ^. VII. 



The root is fibrous, creeping, and fometimes tu- 

 berous : the ftalk is ere6t, from fix to twenty- 

 four inches high, fingle, and covered with white 

 woolly down : the radical leaves are acutely el- 

 liptical, about three or four in number, fome- 

 times intire on the edges, fometimes pinnatifid, 

 particularly near the bafe, with fhort fegments, 

 always white and woolly underneath, and fome- 

 times flightly fo above, and ciliated on the edges 

 with fmall innocent prickles : the fialk has ge- 

 nerally one or two leaves upon it near the root, 

 which embrace it at the bafe, but without auri- 

 cles : befides thefe there is a lanceolate rudimen- 

 tal leaf or hra5iea^ placed about the middle of 

 the ftalk : one large head of purple flowers ter- 

 minates the ftalk, and fometimes another arifes 

 upon a peduncle a little below it : the head of 

 the flowers is an inch long, and three quarters of 

 an inch wide : the fcales of the calyv: are lanceo- 

 late, ered, a little woolly, of a dull purple co- 

 lor on the back and at the fummits, pointed, 

 but not pungent : the ftyles are longer than the 

 anther a : the down on the feeds plumofe. 



This 



