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The VEGETABLE SYSTEM, 
ORDER III. 
GENUS I. 
d With the general Cup tiled ; or compofed of feveral 
ranges of Scales. 
SOW-THISTL E. 
S O N C H U S. 
Character of the Genus. 
The cup fwells at its Bale: the Scales are numerous, py- 
ramidal, and unequal. 
Plate 1 15. 0 ah. 
It is not always, that in the courfe of an artificial method we 
can put fue the fteps of Nature ; yet in this inftance it is happily ef- 
fected : the two laft Goatlbeards have fo much of the Sow-thiftle 
habit, that they lead cafily and naturally into this Genus. 
1. YELLOW HAIR’D SOW-THISTLE* 
Plate 1 1 5. Fig. 1. Tree Sowthistle. 
Character of the Species. Sonchus arvenfis. 
T he Cups and Footftalks of the Flowers are covered 
with long thick yellow hairs. The Leaves are hearted 
at the Bafe. 
Fig. 1. a b. 
This is a Perennial, native of our clayey corn-fields, and flowers 
from June to November. A (lately, and far from an inelegant Plant. 
The Leaves are of a fine bright, tho’ fomewhat yellowilh green. The 
Stajk is a yard high, and of the colour of the Leaves : the Flowers 
are large aad yellow. 
2. PRICK- 
