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leaves are fpread upon the ground in a circle, deeply' 
jagged, hairy, dark green, and prickly ; among. : . 
which, on no ftalk, or a very lliort one, grow ob- 
long fquamous heads, not prickly. The flowers are 
purple. 
8. Car duns lanceatus^ R.195, G. ion. lanceatus 
latifolius feu major^ P.982. Spear Thiftle. The 
heads are large ; the leaves are terminated by a long 
jag^ or fegment. 
9. Carduus lanceatus flore ^ capite minor thus ^ R. 
195. Spear Thiftle, with the leaft flowers and heads. 
About the walls of York. ’Tis a lefs plant than the 
former, and bears a great number of fmaller heads 
on one ftalk. 
10. Carduus lanceatus major^ R-i95- The Lar- 
ger Spear Thiftle. It grows to the height of a man ; 
The heads are twice as big as the common Spear 
Thiftle. It has broad purple flowers. 
11. Carduus tomentofus Corona fratrum di 5 lus^ R.‘ 
195, P.978, eriocephalus^ G. E. 1152. Woolly- 
headed Thiftle. In the chalk-pit clofe, at Cherry-- 
Hinton ; and by the road-fides in Huntingdonjhire 
plentifully. Mr Martin, 
12. Carduus Marine ^ R.195. marine vulgaris,, P. 
976. Common Milk Thiftle, or Ladies Thiftle. 
The leaves are large, fmuated, prickly, fhining,. 
fmooth, and varied with milk-wliite fpots. Found 
in the fame place with the firft. 
13. Carduus Mari^ hirfutus non maculatus,, R. 
195. Ladies Thiftle, without fpots. On a bank 
juft beyond a garden wall on the left hand, a little 
beyond Shore- ditch,, in the road to Hackney, 
14. Carduus tomentofus,, Acanthium dihfiis,, vulgaris, 1 
Acanthium vulgar e,, P.9795 R.196. album,, G.988. \ 
Common Cotton Thiftle. The leaves are large, not 
very deeply cut about the edges : One large fquamous 
head terminates each branch j the fcales ending iB 1 
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