CARDUUS TENUIFLORUS. SLENDER-FLOWER' D THISTLE. 
CARDUUS. Zum Gem. PL SvwoENEzsiA PotrycamiA ALQuALis. 
Calyx ovatus, imbricatus, fquamis fpinofis. — Recepz. pilofum. 
Rati Syn. Gen. 9. MigRnBE FLORE EX FLOSCULIS FISTULARIBUS COMPOSITO sIVÉ 
CAPITAT A, 
CARDUUS venuiflorus foliis decurrentibus margine fpinofis, ramis flri&is, calycibus aggregatis feffilibus 
oblongo-conicis, fquamis ere£to-patulis pungentibus. 
CARDUUS acantboides foliis decurrentibus pinnatifidis, márgine fpinofis, calycibus aggregati feffilibus 
fubcylindricis glabris. Lighifoot Fl. Scot. V. 1. p. 451. Greywelted Thiflle. 
CARDUUS acanrhordes folus decurrentibus finuato-dentatis, margine fpinofis, calycibus ovatis termi 
nalibus aggregatis feffilibus, fquamis acuminatis ere&iufculis. Hud/on FJ. Angl. ed. 2. 
Pp: 351. Welted Thiflle. 
CARDUUS alis caulinis latiffimis, foliis femipinnatis, pinnis angulofis, fpinofis, floribus longis, fafci- 
culatis. Hall, Hzff. 166. 
CARDUUS acanthoides, f. Baub. Hjfl. 3. p. 516. 
CARDUUS fpinofiffimus capitulis minoribus. P. B. Raz Hif) V. 3. p. 309. Syn. ed. 3. f. 194. Welted 
Thiflle with {mall flowers. 
: CARDUUS polyacanthos, capitulis longioribus et tenuioribus foliis albicantibus. Mori/. Hiff. 9. 5. 153. 
RADIX annua. — LA 0 ROOT annual. 
CAULIS bi-tripedalis, ere&us, bafi ramofus, ramis pau- 9 STALK from two to three feet high, upright, branch: 
cis, fubelongatis, ereétis, ftri€tis, teretiufculis, ; edat the bafe, branches few, long, upright, 
leviter fulcatis, tomentofis, maxime verfus perfectly ftraight, roundifh, flightly grooved, 
fummitates, alatis, alis latis, fpinofis. : cottony, particularly towards the tops, winged, 
. wings broad and fpinous. 
FOLIA caulina feffilia, decurrentia, venofa; fupra gla- ; LEAVES of the flalk feffile, decurrent, veiny, above 
briufcula, viridia, pilis adpreffis albidis obfita, ; {moothith; green, befet with eae ide 
o Nou ma SOT oe is ; yc a EE es M mM 
ata, dentata, fpinofa, fpinis longis, lutefcenti- 3 whitifh, .the edge {colloped, toothed, an 
bus; RCRUM FR Soc incifo- ; | fpinous, fpines long mud e radical 
lobata, lobis latis, obtufis, confluentibus. | P E Su iu aed Me 
1 obes which are broad, optuie, and cioling 
Dy as Es .2-)cogether. 
FLORES in ramorum fummitatibus congefli, feffiles, ; oa = SON d x tops ce s branches, 
parvi, pallide purpurei, aut carnei. » elfile, fmall, of a pale purple or flefh-colour. 
CALYX : communis oblongo-conicus, imbricatus, fqua- i CALYX: common to all the florets of an oblong-conical 
mis erecto-patulis, lineari-elongatis, fpinofis, 9 | fhape, imbricated, fcales upright, fpreading 
bafi albidis, medio viridibus, apice in fpinas | at top, long and linear, fpinous, whitifh at 
28 ed longitudine flofculorum exeunti- Q - the ss pem in FU a Es DEN 
bus - | | Ia». in yellow fpines the length of the florets, 
COROLLA compofita, tubulofa, uniformis ; Corollule © COROLLA compound, tubular and uniform; the 
hermaphrodite, fubzquales, ///g. 1. - Florers hermaphrodite, and nearly equal, fy. 1. 
. SEMINA et Pappu:s eadem fere ut in Card. Polyacanth. 5 SEEDS and Down nearly the fame as in the pricklieft 
Jig. 25 y - j Q Thittle, fig 1244 
J. Bavuine appears to be the firft writer who accurately determined this Carduus, which he calls acanrhordes ; 
Ray afterwards gave an excellent defcription of it in his Hi. PA and Monrsow charaéteriftically defined it 
in his Hit. Oxon. Linn aus in Hiis Spee. PL ed. 3. applies J. BauniNE's name of acanthoides to a very different 
Thiftle, our polyacantbos, referring to it at the fame time the fynonyms of J. Bauuine, Ray, and Morison, 
which truly belong to the prefent fpecies (vid. fynon.) and which it.is probable Linn.wus never faw, as it is 
not a Swedifh plant, nor a very general European one; Mr. Ligurroor finding Linn 4us’s defcription not 
to accord with our plant, gave a new fpecific defcription to it, retaining the name acanthordes, and Mr. Hupson 
does the fame; it may therefore be expetted, that we fhould continue the term acanrhoides firft impofed, 
and fo far properly belonging to it, but we are too friendly to reform fo to do, conceiving that the term 
zenujflorus will almoft of itfelf diferiminate the fpecies, while acanchoides means comparatively nothing, we make 
no fcruple to change the name. ES 
This thiflle is à very common one in the environs of London, growing in the very fuburbs; it affe&ts 
warm, fheltered fituations, and is therefore moft frequently found at the foot of paling, walls, hedges, and on 
ditch banks, flowering from June to Auguft: Dr, GoopeNnoucu obferves to me, that he has found it to be 
a common plant near the fea fide, but rare in the more interior parts of the kingdom ;. this probably arifes from 
its being a fomewhat tender plant. 
It is obvioufly diflinguifhed from all our other Cardui by its upright mode of growth, by the breadth of the 
wings on its ftalks, whence its name of welted, the greyifh appearance of its foliage, and, above all, by its long, 
cluftered heads, producing fmall flowers, of a pale purple or flefh colour, little longer than the very Íharp 
» 
{pines of its calyx. 
‘Size excepted, we have not found it fubje& to much variation. 
We often meet with fpecimens much larger, and with more numerous flowers, than is fhewn in our figure, 
which is not intended to reprefent the plant in its moft luxuriant ftate. 
The Farmer or Gardener have little or no caufe to complain of it. 
