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CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL |
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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 these 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. |
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