Name. Called also Fuller's Thistle.
Description. The Manured Teasel grows to be a large tall plant, with a stiff, hard furrowed, very prickly stalk. The lower leaves are long, large, and sharppointed, indented about the edges, smooth above, but having the middle rib of the under part full of sharp prickles. The leaves, which grow upon the stalks, wholly encompass them, like a trough, or long bason, catching the dew or rain which falls, and are likewise prickly underneath. The stalks are divided into several branches, bearing on their tops large heads full of crooked prickly hooks, among which grow several purplish hollow flowers, each in a particular cell; and after them come longish, square, striated seed. The root is pretty large and whitish.
Place. It is cultivated in the fields for the use of the cloth-workers to dress their cloths with.
Time. It flowers in July.