New Zealand Department of Agriculture. JOHN D. RITCHIE, Secretary.
LEAFLETS FOR FARMERS, No. 18. The thistles illustrated here were all mentioned in the Second Annual Report. Two additional figures lmv« been inserted, viz., the Yellow Star Tlmtle and the Milk Thistle... It is hoped that the publication of these drawings will aid settlers to recognise the plants mentioned, and so guard against their dissemination.
Winged fhigtle (Vardwti pyenocephalus). Found i i Europe, N.n'th Africa, and South-west; Asia, By T. W. Kisk, F.L.S., &c, LonSm. Portion of branch with leaves and flower-heads, natural size (from draw ing by Baron von Mueller). Eteot, usually rather more than thistle. The flower-heads are small 2ffc. in height, but in exceptional and narrow, red, sometimes white or cases as much as sft. Leaves with purplish, and are arranged in clusters deeply*cut spiny margins, which are at the ends of the upper branches, developed downwards, so as to form Specimens received from Hawke's spiny "Wings down the angles of the Bay, Wellington, Marlborough, Canstem-; hence the name—winged terbury, and Otago.
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Manawatu Herald, 5 September 1895, Page 3
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174New Zealand Department of Agriculture. JOHN D. RITCHIE, Secretary. Manawatu Herald, 5 September 1895, Page 3
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