SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA ^QUALIS, 457 



This is the fame plant with the Circium Anglicum A 

 Raj. Synop. p. 193 and which Mr. Hudjon in his 

 Flor. Anglic, has by miflake called Carduus 

 dijfe5iu5. Lin, 

 helenioides CARDUUS foliis ampkxicaulibiis lanceolatis den- 

 3» tatis ; fpinulis ini??qualibus ciliatis, caule inermi. 



Sp, pi 1 155. {Clus. hijl. 2. p. 148. Cirfium anglu 

 cum 2. Ger. em, 1183. ^^^fi^ anglki alia icon Pennei 

 Miller, ic, 94. Hallert hift. Helv. n, 180./, 'j.oj^t.) 



Melancholy Thiflle. Anglis. 



Cluas-an-fheidh. Gaulis. 



By the fides of rivulets in high ground in BreadaU 

 hane^ AthoU and all parts of the inland high- 

 lands not unfrequent. We obferv'd it near the 

 foot of- Ben-huardal.xn the illeof 6'/^j)'<?. 11. .VII. VIII. 



The ftalk is five or fix feet high, angular, hoilow, 

 a little woolly, hardly at all branched, but fur 

 niflied with many leaves from the bottom almoft 

 to the top : the radical leaves are of a long el- 

 liptic form, and are fupportcd by footftalks : the 

 llalk-leaves are fefille and heart Ihap'd at the 

 bafe, where they embrace the ilalk, but are feven 

 or eight inches long, and lanceolate upwards ; 

 they are all intire white and hoary underneath, 

 but green above, finely dented on the edges, ' 

 and ciliated with harmlels prickles : the hra5fe^ 

 or floral leaves near the fummit of the (laik are 

 fubulate : the flower is large, ered, purple, and 

 fpecious, an inch and half long, and near two 

 inches in diameter when full blown, and termi- 

 nates the ftalk : one and fometimes two more 

 flowers grow below it on long peduncles arifing 



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