School: Monart (roll number 15741)
- Location:
- Monart East, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Elionóir, Bean Úi Fhuidhleach
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Musk Thistle: Heads solitary, drooping: scales of the involucre tapering to a rigid point, cottony, the outer ones bent back, stem winged by thorny leaves. A very handsome plant about two feet high, with a furrowed cottony stem, deeply lobed thorny leaves, which are downy on the veins beneath and large deep purple flowers to which the radiated involucre is a very ornamental appendage. This is sometimes called the Scotch thistle but incorrectly. The upper part of the flower stalk is nearly bare of leaves, and the flower itself has a powerful odour. It is common in waste places.
Scotch Thistle. The involucre is globose with the scales spreading in all directions; the stem is winged with rough cottony leaves, and attains a height of four to six feet; the flowers are large of a dull purple hue, and mostly solitary, or hid slightly clustered at the end of the branches. This species is the true Scotch Thistle, the national emblem. Grows on waste ground and roadsides chiefly in the south.
Nettle. grows tall and green in colour and grows usually in clumps. It stings very painfully for a little while.
Thistle. grows in the fields. There are about half a dozen varieties of thistles, all green in colour with a(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr G. Lett
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Hollyfort, Co. Wexford
