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cmpalement ; to Knapweed to have no prickles 
at all •, and to Thiftles to have a prickly empale- 
ment. Tournefort. The fpecies are: 
1. Cirfiv:\i Anglicum^ R.193, G.E.1183. 
glicum primum^ P. 961. The Englifh foft, or Gen- 
tle Thiftle. In marfhy places. 
2. Cir film Brit annicum Clufii repens ^ R. 193. all- 
lid Anglicum^ P.961. The great Englifh foft, or 
Gentle Thiftle, or Melancholy Thiftle. In feveral 
places in Wales^ and on a moor, two miles from 
Croydon. In Longfledale.^ in a field call’d Wither^ 
howe., by the road fide near "Tomjhowe^ about feven 
miles from Kendaf TFeJimor eland -f . 
3. Cirfium humile montanum Cynoglojfi folio., 'poly- 
mthemum, R. 193. Dwarf, many ftowePd, Welfh, 
Mountain, Gentle Thiftle, with a Hounds-tongue 
leaf. 
4. Cirfium montanum polyanthemum Solids folio 
mgufto denticulato, R. 193. Many flower’d Gentle 
Thiftle, with a narrow, indented, willow leaf. 
Carduus, Thiftle. The leaves are prickly, and 
grow alternately : The empalement is fcaly and 
prickly : The embryo becomes a feed, furnifhed 
with down. The fpecies are : 
1. Carduus nutans, R. 193. Mufk Thiftle, vnth 
a bending head : The root is white and ligneous, 
having many fibres : The ftalk is a cubit high, 
branched ; the branches frequently exceeding the 
ftalk in length ; ftriated, hairy, winged lengthways, 
with narrow frizled membranes : The leaves are not 
very broad, but deeply cut, all the jags ending in 
fliarp prickles. Thefe leaves are of a dark green 
colour, fomerimes woolly, efpecially on the back 
part : On the tops of the ftalks and branches are 
large, broad, flattifn, bending heads : The flowers 
are large and fpreading, compofed of a great num- 
ber of purple florets : The empalements are fcaly, 
eachfeale ending in abroad, long> ftiif priclde, fome- 
tknes 
