~ 20° Its Defeription. 
The Stalks of the Bleffed Thiffle are round, rough and pli- 
able, divided into many Branches, *moft of which reft upon 
the Ground. The Leaves are jagged, and full of tender Prickles 
on their Edges, and on the Tops oftheir Stalks they produce 
Heads of Bloffoms fet with Prickles, and environ’d with fharp 
peckis Leaves. The Flowefs’ are yellow, which are fucceeded 
y long Sced, fet with a fort of @ Kairy down om their Tops. 
The Root is white, and the gape Plant above Ground, wi. 
its Stalks, Leaves, and Heads of Bloffom or Seed, are cover'd 
with a foft. and thin spr Subftance. 
. Tis Temperature. 
Hot and dry | in the feeond Degrée; and Pipvegl cleanfi ing and 
opening. ~° © 
. Its Medicinal Virtues. 
Carduus Basemsned being ‘boiled’in Wine ‘and drank hot, 
healeth the griping Pains of the Belly; kills and’ expells Wormis, 
caufes Sweat, provokes Utine, expels Gravel’, mae arg the 
Stomach, and is very good-againft'a-quartane. Bevée.) 
Hierome Bock witneffeth, that the Juice of Catduus ‘edie in 
Wine or any other way, is fi ngular’ good againft all Poifon, 
and according to ‘Joachimus Camerarius ws Noremberg; , it a 
the Inflammation of the Liver. - 7" 
The Powder of the Leaves given in. she quantity of half a 
Dram, is very good againft Peftilencé,” provided that ’tis taken 
within twenty four Hours ftom the time of the InfeCtion and 
the Party fweat upon the fame. 
N. B. That the Wine moinegais £ ee hse have been infufed 
has the boar one HOD ale a o a 
ip eatin S - 
| og its Calbia 
The Seed of Cardins Beneditfus is ripe in September , and 
Mould at that time be fown: It delights in good Land, and 
when large enough to tranfplant out, fhould be planted in Beds 
at one Foot diftant’ each Plant from the other. 
N. B. That the time ‘of its greatelt Petfe&tion for stil cal 
‘Ures is Fuly and Anguft, when’tis in its full — oe 
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