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little flowers, which are produced fingly from 
between the fcales, are colledted into a head, 
fomewhat like a honey-comb: Thefe are fiicceed- 
ed by longifli four-corner’ d feeds. The fpecies 
are : 
I. Dipfacus fativus^ R. 192, G. 1005, P.983. 
Manur’d TeafeL The heads have hooked prickles, 
which diftinguifhes it from the wild : The leaves 
encompafs the ftalk with their bottoms, and arc 
prickly on the under fide. 
‘ 2. Dipfacus fylveftrij feu Labr urn Veneris^ R.192. 
Dipfacus fylveftris^ G. 1005, P.984.. Wild Teafel. 
The leaves that furround the head are long and 
ftreight, ending in a foft point: The leaves that 
grow on the ftalk are like thofe of the laft. 
3. Dipfacus minor feu Virga paftoris^ G. E. 1168, 
R. 192. Virgapajioris^ P.984. Small Wild Teafel, 
or Shepherds-rod. The leaves are placed at the 
joints by pairs, not embracing the ftalk, but hang- 
ing on a pedicle about an inch long. 
CLASS. VI. 
Herbs with comfomd flowers and flquawotis 
heads. Ray'j Synof. 192, 
T Hefe plants have their flowers compofed of 
long Mftulous florets, cut, for the moft part, 
into long fegments : The common empalement, af- 
ter the flower falls away, fwells into a fcaly head : 
To each floret fucceeds one Angle feed. 
Cersium, Gentle Thiftle. The flower confifts of 
feveral florets, divided into many parts, each 
fitting on an embryo, and contain’d in a fqua- 
mous empalement, not prickly : The embryo 
becomes a feed furnifhed with down : The leaves 
are fet with foft prickles. It is peculiar to Gentle 
Thiftle to have prickles on the leaves, not the 
empale- 
