Webb observes, |. c.: “ Omnes Cichoriacee vulneratee succum 
fundunt lacteum, in gummi sic dictum coagulans, precipue 
Soncht, non vero pre aliis species nostra, quare nomen Linkii spe- 
cificum non characteristicum.”. 
Descr. Stem fruticose, but greenish, two to three feet high, 
erect or flexuose, nearly as stout as one’s finger. Leaves approxi- 
mate, broad-lanceolate, glaucous green, lanceolato-runcinato-pin- 
natifid rather than pinnate, winged below, auriculate, and semi- 
amplexicaul ; the segments subovate, acute, often deflexed, here 
and there irregularly toothed. Panicle terminal (in our speci- 
men few-flowered). Pedice/s two to three inches long, foliaceo- 
bracteated at the base, just beneath the flower expanding into a 
large spongy red-brown, turbinate or hemispherical apophysis, 
which supports the capitulum. Involucre small, of a few imbri- 
cated green scales, with a whitish margin, outer ones short, 
interior ones oblong. Yorets all uniform, yellow. Corolla with 
the tube pubescent. Ovary narrow, oblong, crowned with a 
white silky pappus. Style downy. Branches of the stigma 
long-linear, revolute. 
Fig. 1. Floret. 2. Hair from the pappus. 3. Apex of style :—magnijied. 
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