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indented ; and of a beautiful green on the upper 
fide, and a pale green underneath. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftilks in 
round heads ; and are of a beautiful blue. 
It is a native of Italy, but is common in our 
gardens. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cardims fphmcephaliis lati- 
f alius unlgarii. Others, Cardaus ghkfus. 
2. BlelTcd Thiftle. 
Carduus bsnedi^us. 
The root is long and {lender. 
The ftalk is tough, firm, very much branched, 
and two feet high. 
The leaves are long, moderately broad, irre- 
gularly finuated at the edges, and of a yellowilh 
green. 
The flowers are yellow ; and they are placed 
in prickly heads, clofe furrounded with feveral 
little leaves. 
It is a native of the German mountains, and 
flowers in Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cmctis fybeftris hirfuHar- 
Others, Carduus henedi^us. 
It is celebrated as a ftomachick and fudorifick, 
but is not fq much regarded in the modern prac- 
tice as thofe encomium.s bellowed on it by au- 
thors feem to demand. 
GENUS III. 
SAFF-FLOWER. 
C A Rr H J MU S. 
THE flowers are difpofed in numbers in fcaly heads ; 
ccous appendage at the end. Each feparate flower i: 
the bafe, and divided into five fegments at the edge 
Linnffius places this with the other capitate plants among the fyngcnefia ; their buttons coalelcing. 
the feveral fcales having a kind of folia- 
! formed of a fingle petal, and is tubular at 
The feeds are large, and Hand almofl naked. 
Common Safi^- flower. 
Carthar.ms "juharis. 
and \\m\t 
The root is long, flcjider, whitifli 
with a few fibres. 
The fialk is upright, not much branched, 
round, and redifh at the bottom. 
The leaves are broad, Ihort, fliarp-pointed, 
and of a lively green ; they Hand irregularly on 
the fl:alks. 
The flowers grow at the fummits of the fl:alks 
and branches in large fcaly heads ; and they are 
of a beautiful orange yellow, which they retain 
when dry. 
It is found by road-fides in fome few parts of 
Eng'nnd. Probably thefe flioots have rifen from 
fcattered feeds, the plant having been cultivated 
in the neighbourhood for the ufe of dyers : though 
perhaps it may be native. 
It flowers in Augufi:. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cnkus fitiviis. Others, 
Cartbamus, 
G E N U S IV. 
SAW-WORT. 
SERRATULJ. 
THE flowers are collefted in fmall heads, and contained in a common cup -, which is oblong, 
rounded, a little fwelled, and formed of fcales clofe fet, but not prickly. Each flofcule is 
formed of a fingle petal, tubular, and crooked at the bafe, and fwelled out, and divided into five 
fegments at the rim. The leaves are not prickly. 
The ftalk is round, upright, flender, and two 
feet or more in height. 
The flowers arc coUefled in fmall heads ; and 
are of a fine purple, but fometimes white. 
The feeds are oblong and large. 
It is common about woods, and flowers in Au-' 
guft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sinalula. Others, Serratula 
purpurea. 
Common Saw-wort. 
Serralula vulgaris. ■ 
The root is fibrous and white. j 
The firft leaves are ufuaily undivided, oblong,' 
broad, and of a beautiful green : fometimes they 
are deeply cut in a pinnated form j and they 
in the fame manner vary upon the ftalks, being 
in fome plants undivided, and in others very 
deeply jaeged, while the fpecies is the fame. In 
both forms they are very regularly and beautifully 
notched at the edges ; whence the plant had its 
It is accounted vulnerary and afl:ringent, but 
not ufed. 
GENUS 
