bull-thistle

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"Who picked out that old cross between a split-saw and a bull-thistle to umpire this muster?" shouted the foreman of the Ancients, to the amazement of the brisk little man.

The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900
Straggling processions of wooly brown caterpillars wend their way in the short grass by the wayside, where the wild carrot and the purple bull-thistle are coming into bloom.

The Village Watch-Tower Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889