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Saint Barnaby's Thistle

Description. The root is long, slender, black, and hung with a few fibres. The first leaves spread circularly on the ground: they are long, deeply divided, and of a faint green. The stalk is tough, firm, upright, and two feet high; the leaves of it resemble those from the root; and they are of a faint green also. The flowers stand in small prickly heads at the tops of the branches: and they are of a beautiful yellow.

Place. We have it in dry pastures in some parts of England: but it is not common.

Time. It flowers also in June.