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acanthium ONOPORDUM calycibus fquarorfis, fqnamis pa- 



f, tentibus-, foliis ovato-oblongis finnatis. Lin fyft, 



nat.f. 531. Sp. pi iiijS. (Ger, em. 1149. /. i. 



Moris, hift.f^ 7. ^. 30- /• i ^ fuperioris i^ medii or- 



dinis, Loes. FL Pruf p.. 261. icon. 81.; 



Cotton Thiftk. Jnglis, 



In wafte places near towns and villages, as ?xPFeems 

 on the coaft of Fife^ and half a mile beyond 

 Frefion-Pans, &c. $ . VIII. 

 The ftalk is fix feet high, branched, and wlng'd 

 throughout from the bafe to the calyx : the flalk 

 and leaves are fometimes cover'd all over with a 

 white cotton down, fo as to appear quite hoary ; 

 at other times this downy covering is flight, and 

 then they put on a pallid green color : the leaves 

 are fefliie, decurrent, of an oval lanceolate form, 

 fmuated with triangular dents, each angle ending 

 with a ftrong fpinc : the heads of flowers are vio- 

 let-color'd, and terminate the branches : thefcales 

 of the calyx ftand open, and end in a lliarp fplne : 

 the receptacle is pierc'd with quadrangular cells, 

 which receive the feeds, crown'd with feflile ca- 

 pUlary down. 

 The receptacles of the flowers, and the tender 

 fl:alks peelM and boild, may be eaten in the fame 

 manner as artichokes andcardoons. 

 A deco6tion of the root is reckoned a fpecific in a 

 recent Gonorrhaa^ according to Scopoli. Fkr. Car- 

 niol, JO 1 3. 



CARLINA. 



