In its channel I saw some of the milk or sow-thistle plant growing-theSonchus oleraceus.

The juice of the "milk-thistles" (Sonchus) will cure warts.

Atriplex forms, when young, as we gratefully experienced, an excellent vegetable, as do also the young shoots of Sonchus.

The channel had become filled with reeds, and great quantities of enormous milk or sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceous).

A few of the smaller plants (Plantago major and lanceolata, Sonchus oleraceus, and Artemisia vulgaris) are identical with European species.