1In its channel I saw some of the milk or sow-thistle plant growing-theSonchus oleraceus.
2The juice of the "milk-thistles" (Sonchus) will cure warts.
3Atriplex forms, when young, as we gratefully experienced, an excellent vegetable, as do also the young shoots of Sonchus.
4The channel had become filled with reeds, and great quantities of enormous milk or sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceous).
5A few of the smaller plants (Plantago major and lanceolata, Sonchus oleraceus, and Artemisia vulgaris) are identical with European species.
6Sonchus lævis, smooth Sow-thistle, at 5 and at 11-12
7* (* At Lancerota calcareous stone is burned to lime with a fire made of the alhulaga, a new species of thorny and arborescent Sonchus.)