Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA ^QUALIS. 455
An emulfion of the feeds has fometimes been us'd
to thin the blood, and to cure ftiches and pleu-
rifies, but at prefent is rarely pra6tis'd.
CARDUUS foliis feffilibus bifariam pinnatifidis,
laciniis alternis ereftis, calycibus globofis villofis.
Sp.pL 1153. (Ger. em. 1152. /. 6. Pet. herb. t.
i\.f. 8. Miller, icon. 293. bona.)
Woolly 'headed Thiftle. Anglis.
By the fea fide between Blacknefs and the ^mn's-
Ferry., according to Sibbald? i . VII.
The ftalk is four or five feet high, ftrong, rough,
furrow'd and branched : the lower leaves which
fpread on the ground are often two feet long :
they are green and rough on the upper fide, but
white and woolly underneath, and have a leafy
border running along the middle rib : the
fegments of the leaves point alternately upwards
and downwards, and are divided into two lobes,
the nerve of one of them ending in a ftrong fharp
fpine, the other long and lanceolate : the branches
are terminated with large fphserical heads of pur-
ple flowers : the fcales of the calyx are lanceolate,
ereft, terminated with a yellow fpine, and arc
curioufly interwoven with a fine cobweb down :
the feeds are white, nearly oval, comprefled, ob-
liquely truncated, and crown'd svith a plumofe
down.
This is one of the moft elegant plants of the p-o/n/J.
The receptacles are pulpous and efculent, lu<.e
thofe of the artichoke.
CARDUUS