dm Se Bd Ow defeated the foe with a terrible slaughter. 
The thistle was 
in immediately adopted, as thede insi olen mo Sco tlan nd.” 
CARDUUS. 
Class 19.—syNGENESIA. 
vat. Ord. Linn. 
CAPITATR. 
Order.—POLYGAMIA AEQUALIS. — bearings, coins, os mor That, whith pa 
ss s has been des signated as e, has a rich and beauti- 
retnitroe ful oe i with delicate ont silky petals, and ex. 
CINAROCEPHAL®. panded d 
dares’ said to be derived from c¢ nn a techn: ical dy de- 
P phage ognar) wool from its impuri 
, toc 
The rough bur-thistle, ee wide 
h def > bear ded bea 
Carduus, is a name given by af ancients to several kinds of oie we sag agh 
prickly = de —s larly to the Teasel ‘ullonum, An 
also pray _ arduus fullonum, or Futiey's ree formerly 
cates aeciti oak 
Triumphant be the tnt Pao unfurl’d, 
1g Dear symbol wild! 
Thistle, Pak Diestel, Dutch, a prickly weed grow: ing in Where Fingal stemme ore the tyrants of there ees 
fields.—_See Joh: 
rid, 
And Roman eagles found unconquered foes. Campbell . 
Tough thistle chock’d the fields, and kill’d the corn, 
And an unthrifty crop of weeds was born. Dryde 
~ 
ee 
of thistle have my hunger fed, THORN-APPLE 
o roods of cultur’d barley give me bread, : 
A rock my pillow, and green moss my bed. 
ogg 
bom, UT 
= ~~ 
DATURA, 
+ 8m ents gon 
~ne 
3-4 
ae 
~pee ty? 
ry 
lass 4.— : 
Wide o’er the thistle lawn, as swells an) breeze, ae ori im 2 
A white cond _ ower of vegetable dow: mee cp san Nat. oF Juss. 
Amusive Thomson. SOLANEX. 
Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
In Scotland, the order of S 
instituted _by "Achaius, one of their 
f 
ft. scart or com Thistle, was Datura, from do, dare, daturus, Lati 
ki serve the 
eague, offensive and hamucsty ms entered 
into between himself and Charlemagne, k France. T 
tressure* of Fleur 
arms ri Scotlan 
0 give, a bestow, 
n for t 
which will give, ete. 2 because it is sue as dey stimulan This 
t. "e * 
cing or h of t at least such is given in he Ency clopedia. 
Give 
fr 
Dat 
yed from the of Sale 
called Thorn-Apple from the nature of its fru it, 
S 
is the original name by which it was recei 
and that it is 
rhich is prick 
De 
y- 
eis derives veges from Datorah, or Tatorah, the Ara- 
bie name of the plan 
oA 
U 
fA 
y 
Ps 
appears to have Sas carried from Peru through the Eas 
fa wis a ome meaner — nage “pecan and F Persia toEurope. The seed was brought from Cone 
defence? To this collar was hung a jewel, the ‘figure of St. stantinop > by fond swengeieck Tones ane —_ * - whee 
An 
ring his c 
Holing shead tells us, ‘tnt the cross of St. ar nectres (the tute- crai powerful oe 
lar saint of Scotland 
? 
Their powers mysterious let thy pari shift, 
Their useful poisons, and their healing gift "De Lille. 
Skinner — that the word thorn probably comes from 
ge Saxon verb tearan tear. 
he D. S. Padiatr 4 ima apple, or James-tow 
cago plant to be wed to hate where thes 
ren. the bonus of i iow i 
ti 
genus. Sc Arbre = Peru i is igh ee iplendid o f all— 
each flow er being of 
hundred and fifty ion: at t the same Fie es 
Th ae ium is said to have received the name 
eh ori in pmol 3 Chronicle,” t ‘hat “the signe | Of James-town 
Picts and | ors Ravi ing -esthipe made violent] 
Scots being th hevewiih: talon in aid, to ‘heen th ir sana at James-town, in the fi 
arma — also of the Englishmen to their no lesse Aton 
Tradition seed Fisiuie abet: of the origin of the national 
hes 
tly ill from eating the boiled plant 
first settlement of Virgini 
badge, with its motto 
varieties of the e same species. Silliman’s Jour, 
of 
The flowers of rie, nfsriedir a calyx of one wae jds-araeed 
tubular, five-angled, five-toothed, partly deciduo’ ‘orolla 
mono; petalous, fonnel-shaped, plaited. There is lar 
Provision of n: in these flowers, to Protect them 
meek cham a the ert air, the leaves nearest the 
and | flow enclose them and icone 
prorat 
us neared the Scottish h force unol 
super thistle and eet. uttering a ey or pat ae 
the assault to the Scots, who ran. to their 
* Tressure, in heraldry, is a kind of border, The arms are a lion, with « 
border, or fressure, adorned with flower. er-de-luces. : 
