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Dip- If you had ever lived in any part of 
f acus * the kingdom where woollen cloth is 
manufactured, you would immediately 
have recognized that upright plant 
with large oval heads, growing, in num- 
bers, by the fide of this ditch. It is the 
Dipfacusfyheftns, the Wild Teafel, of 
the Clafs and Order T'etrandria Monogy- 
ma. It is, indeed, not the fpecies ufed 
in the woollen manufactory; but there 
is fo little difference between this and 
ihefullonum, that Linnaeus confidered 
the latter as a variety of ifojyfatftris: 
neverthelefs there is certainly a fpecific 
diflinftion. In, the D. fullonum, the 
palete of the receptaculum are hooked 
downwards : in the D. fyfoejlris, they 
are ftraight. In the D. fullonum, the 
leaves of the involucrum are fhort and 
horizontal: in the fyfaeftris, they are 
long, and, as you fee, encircle the head. 
The generic character is Calyx corn- 
munis polyphyllus; proprius fuperus. 
Receptaculum paleaceum. 
The ufe of the Teafel in the manufactory 
of woollen cloth, is to lay the pile all one 
way, before it is put in the hot prefs. For 
this 
