The vegetable SYSTEM. 
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mnfky fcent, not unlike that of the Sweet Sultan, but lighter and more 
delicate. They have it moil; in ground that has lead; wet. This 
Autumn 1761, I faw a quantity of it in a wade ground near Sir Roger 
Hill’s park at Denham, that perfumed the air to fome diflance. 
2. SPEARY BANK-THISTLE. 
Plate II. Fig. 2. 
Character cf the Species. Carduus Lanceatus. 
The Leaves are divided and fub-divided into long fpeary 
points with very firm Thorns. The Flowers ftand 
erect. 
Fig. 2. a b. 
This is the commoned; of all our Thidles, a tall, forbidding 
Plant, armed with flrong Thorns, and covered at the top with crim- 
fon Flowers. It is an Annual of dx Foot high. The Stalk is pale, the 
Leaves are of a faint and dull green ; the Flowers are of a bright 
crimfon. It covers our dry banks and wafte grounds all the latter 
part of Summer. 
GENUS IV. 
COTTON-THISTLE. 
ONOPORDUM. 
Chara£ter of the Genus. 
The Cup is egg-fiiaped, and the Points of its Scales ftand 
outwards. 
Plate 12. 0 a b. 
1 . BROAD- 
