200 Root Crops 



813, native in central Europe. It is a very spiny thistle-like 

 biennial with milky juice and long pinnatifld shiny hairy 

 green leaves that have lighter colored ribs and veins : root 

 single or branched : stems 1 to 2 ft. or more high, spreading, 

 bearing many stiff spine-tipped clasping and decurrent leaves : 

 flowers yellow, in sessile axillary heads : fruits (seeds) chaff- 

 like, wing-margined, variable in size, the larger ones (from 

 the outsifi'' of the head) % in. or more long and circular- 

 oblong. (Hispanicus: Spanish.) 



