There are some authors, too, who make the acanos[1] to be a
species of eryngium. It is a thorny plant, stunted, and
spreading, with prickles of a considerable size. Applied topically, they say, it arrests hæmorrhage in a most remarkable
degree.
1. Sprengel identifies this with the Onopordum acanthium; but Fée
thinks that if it belongs to the Onopordum at all, it is more likely to be
the Onopordum acaulton, or the O. Græcum.