The vegetable SYSTEM. 15 
This Is an Annual, native of Italy and Spain; and flowers inAu- 
gufl. It rifes to two foot in heighth ; the Stalk is yellowifli; the 
Leaves are o^ a yellowifl'i green, and the Flowers are yellow. 
BRANCHY CAR LINE THISTLE. 
Plate 8. Fig. 4. Wild Carline Thistle. 
Charaflcr of the Species. Carlina Ccr\ mboi'a 
The Stalk dividesat the head into many foreading Branches, 
and the Flowers have Footflalks. 
Plate 4. n h. 
This is an Annual, natlveof our dry upland paftures, and flowers 
in July. ’Tis two foot high. The Leaves are of a faint green, 
edg’d with (harp brown thorns : the Flowers are yellow, the Colour 
is not fine, but they are very lafting. 
f. SIDE FLOWERING CARLINE THISTLE. 
Plate 8. Fig. 5. 
Charader of the Species. Carlina Racemofa. 
The Flowers are few, and grow clofe in the bofoms of 
the Leaves up the Sides of the Stalk. 
Fig. 5, a. 
This is an Annual, native of the dry wafle grounds in Spain ; and 
flowers in Auguft. The Stalk is Ample, yellowilli, and a about a 
foot high : the Leaves are of a yellowilh green, and have large, but 
not flirong, thorns, along their Edge ; the Flowers are yellow. 
6. WHITE CARLINE THISTLE. 
Plate 8. Fig. 6. 
Charafter of the Species. Carlina Pyreanica. 
The Leaves run down the Stalk in prickly welts. The 
Flowers Band clofe upon the fummit. 
Fig. 6. a b. 
This is a Biennial, native of the Pyrenaean mountains, on the fide 
of Spain ; and flowers in Auguft. The Stalk is white welted, very 
prickly, and a little more than a foot in heighth : the Leaves are cut 
deep in the winged manner, and are of a whitifh green ; the Flowers 
ftand in a compact rifing head at the top of the Stalk, and are of a 
glofly white. 
TRIBE II. 
With original and diflindl Scales. 
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