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Definition of Carlina vulgaris
1. Noun. Eurasian thistle growing in sand dunes and dry chalky soils.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carlina Vulgaris
Literary usage of Carlina vulgaris
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flowering Plants of Tunbridge Wells & Neighbourhood by Richard Deakin (1871)
"carlina vulgaris. hard, rigid texture, spreading like the rays of a flower ;
Florets small, short, tubular, pink; Fruit compressed; Pappus feathery, ..."
2. The Chemist: A Monthly Journal of Chemical and Physical Science (1842)
"The Sonchus oleraceus and the carlina vulgaris are not less remarkable, and there
are ... The carlina vulgaris does not merely shut its corolla before rain, ..."
3. Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West by Alexander Stewart (1883)
"... THE carlina vulgaris. shown the same sensitiveness in the circumstances, but
in a manner not so immediate, and to a degree less marked and striking. ..."
4. A flora of the English lake district by John Gilbert Baker (1885)
"In Ennerdale carlina vulgaris grows abundantly, and may have been mistaken for
Card• acaulis, ... carlina vulgaris, L. Native. English type. Range 1-2. ..."
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