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Trickles . The Stalk is rounds Jl raked, and without 
Trickles , fp reading it felf into fcveral Branches , 
bearing many fmallheads with Threads or Thrums of 
a purplijh Color coming out of their middle, which 
confitute the Flower, which Heads are fet zoith 
large and fharp Trickles, after which is the Seed 
inc/ofed in the Down, as the rejl are. 
XVI. Tolycephalos alter. There is another ma- 
ny Headed Thiftle j whofe Root is hard and woody. 
Its Stalk has neither Film or Trickle, but branched 
forth into divers parts, and they again into other 
fmaller Branches , on which ftand many Heads, and 
fmaller ones under them, with fever al j 'mall prickles 
about them, out of which rife purplijh Thready 
Flowers as in the other. The Leaves are but few 
on the Stalks, being fhort and narrow, but as 
thick fet with Trickles, as the fecond or mofl 
Prickly Thiftle, at Se£h V. above. 
XVII. The thirteenth, or Marfh, or moift Mea- 
dow Thiltle. Its Root is Jingle, the Stalks about 4 
Feet or more high, fir ait and full of prickles, thick 
fet with dark green Leaves , unevenly waved , and 
fame times more deeply cut in on the edges , having a 
few prickles at them, and branched towards the 
top, with many f mall Heads upon J, lender Foot- 
fialks, which bear purple Thrum Flowers, and 
turn into Down, in which the Seed is involved , like 
as in other Thifiles. 
XVIII. The fourteenth, orOate-Land, or Mus- 
ked Thiftle. Its Root is fmall and long, perifhing 
at the approach of Winter. It has an upright 
Stalk, and rifes up in Corn and Oat-Lands, Jome- 
Thiftle Oate-Land : Or, Musked. 
times to a Alans Height, but is found growing 
lower in other places on which do grow broad, 
fharp, prickly, jagged Leaves , fet round the Stalk 
and Branches -, the tops are branched out with many 
fhort Stalks , into as many fhort Heads fet clofe to- 
gether, out of which come the Flowers, con ftfling of 
Threads or Thrums, as in the other Thijile / of 
which fome will be White, fome of a White 
Color tending to Turplc, and ethers of a pale 
Purple. Color tending to blufh, of a mofi pie af ant 
Jweet Smell j and in fome places f mailing Jwec 't 
like Musk, which being faded. Downy Heads fuc- 
ceed, m which the Seed is contained. 
XIX. The fifteenth, or Greater Broad Spear- 
Thiftle. Its Stalk is armed with Trickles like ma- 
ny other Wild Thifiles ■, and the Leaves fet 
thereon are very long, cut in or divided on the 
Thiftle Spear, Broad Greater. 
edges, in 2 or 1 places, fet at diflances one from 
another •, and the fever al parts cut into $ or 6 
points or corners, fharply armed, the end being 
long and narrow , pointed like the Head of a Jave- 
lin or Pike, ( whence came the Name : J The 
Flowers are purplijh in fcaly prickly Heads , af 
ter which comes the Seed wrapped up in Down as 
in other Thifiles. 
XX. T he Places. All thefe Thiftles Grow 
Wild by Way-Sides, in Fields, Meadows, Or- 
chards, Gardens, and in Corn Lands in moft places 
of this Kingdom, as alfo in many other places be- 
yond Sea; alfo on Heaths, Greens, and watte pla- 
ces up and down almoft every where. The thir- 
teenth grows in moift Meadows ; and the four- 
teenth in Oat - Lands, and other Corn - Lands. 
Gerard fays, it grows in the Fields about Cam- 
bridg ; and I have feen it in fome other places 
adjacent to it. 
XXL The Times. They all Flower frem the 
beginning of June to the end of Auguji, and their 
Seed is ripe in fome little time after* 
XXII, The 
