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The vegetable SYSTEM. 
generating gradually as they rife along it. r. Tliofe 
at the Bafe are perfc6l, pinnatilid,* green Leaves; 2. 
The ferics above thefe are dry and Tcaly, but are ftill 
pinnatihd ; retaining their form, only pointed and edg- 
ed, with perfect Thorns ; 3. The inner feries depoht 
wholly their leafy form, and nature ; beeoming iimple, 
undivided Scales, arm’d only with a crimfon thorn at 
the Point. 
Plate 2. 0 a b c. 
I. COTTONY DISTAFF THISTLE. 
Plate 2. 
Charaiter of the Species. 
Carthamus lanatiis. 
The d'ops of the Branches, are covered with a Cottony 
matter. 
Plate 2. a b. 
T il IS is an Annual, native of France and Italy, an upright, 
and not unhandfome Plant, of two foot high. The Leaves 
are of a yellowifli green, but they have high red ribs: the flowers 
are large and of a bright yellow. The whole Plant abounds with 
a blood-coloured Juice, which runs out, wherever it is cut or 
broken. 
2. D W A R F DISTAFF 1 ' H I S T L E. 
Plate 3. Fig. 2. 
Charafler of the Species. Carthamus Mitiffimus. 
The Radical Leaves are lanc’d and dented; thefe on the 
Stalk are pinnatihd, and edged with flight and weak 
Thorns. 
Fig. 2 . a b c. 
This is a Perennial, native of the South of France : alow, and 
very fingular Plant, flov/ering in July and Augufl. The Root creeps 
under the furface, and pufhes up in diflant fpots little clufters of 
dark green Leaves edged with weak Thorns. The Stalk is but two 
or three inches high, the Leaves are of a deep green, and the Flower 
of a very bright blue. 
