The vegetable SYSTEM 
IX 
ORDER II. 
With the Cup compofed of Scales form’d of degradating 
Leaves j and with the outer Range of the Scales hlmy. 
GENUS L 
ELESSED THISTLE. 
C N I C U S. 
Chara£ler of the Genus* 
The Cup is oval, and has a leafy Circlet at the Bafe. 
The inner Ranges of Scales terminate in hard and 
branched Thorns. 
Plate 0 ab. 
I. S P R E A D I N G BLESSED THISTLE. 
Plate 5. Fig. i. Carduus Benedictus^ 
Character of the Species. Cnicus Benedidtus. 
The Leaves are irregularly finuated ; the Stalk divides in- 
to many fpreading Branches. 
Fig. 1. a 1. 
This is an Annual, native of the Eaft', and of the warmer parts 
of Europe; the iil'ands of the Archipelago are not more over-run 
with it than the plough’d lands of Spain-. It is two foot high. 
The Stalk divides into a number of long Branches, which fpread our 
wide ; the Leaves are of a flrong green with fome cad of ycllowini ; 
and the Flowers are of a pale yellow. The whole Plant has a ifrong, 
but not difagreeable, feent. It flowers in Augud. 
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