Tap, 6642, 
SONCHUS Jacqurnt. 
Native of the Canary Islands. 
Nat. Ord. Composirm.—Tribe CrcHoRIACER. 
Genus Soncuvus, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 528.) 
Soncuvs Jacquini ; sparse albo-lanatus, caule 1-2-pedali robusto confertim folioso 
basi fruticoso, foliis sessilibus lineari-oblanceolatis acuminatis ad medium v. 
infra pinnatifidis, lobis triangularibus acutis decurvis spinuloso-ciliatis, capi- 
tulis corymbosis v. subumbellatis, involucri bracteis adpressis exterioribus 
pe adetes interioribus lineari-oblongis obtusis, acheniis obovoideis atris 
sulcatis. 
8. Jacquini, DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 1813, p. 147; Prodr. vol. vii. p. 188, excl. 
var. 8; Webbet Berth. Phyt. Canar. pars ii. p. 428,-t. 132. 
8. fruticosus, Jacq. Coll. vol. i. p. 83 (non Linn.) ; Ic. Rar. vol.i. t. 161, excl. Syn. 
8, macranthus, Poir. Suppl. vol. iii. p. 289. 
The Canary Islands are remarkable for the number of 
handsome species of Sonchus which they contain; and of 
which but few have as yet been in cultivation in England ; 
one alone, S. radicatus (Tab. 5211), is figured in this 
Magazine. As in the case of various other genera of what 
are herbaceous plants on the Continents, many of the 
Sonchi of the Canaries are suffrutescent or even frutescent, 
the base of the stem becoming woody and perennial. 
S. Jacquini is a native of rocky places in the “ Laurel 
region” of the Island of Teneriffe, where it was discovered 
by Masson, a collector for the Royal Gardens of Kew, who 
In 1779 sent seeds to the Imperial Garden of Schoenbrun 
(Vienna), which produced the specimen well figured by 
Jacquin. Its native name is “ Lachuza de Pastor,’ or 
astor’s Lettuce, whence it is to be inferred that it is avail- 
able as a salad; it is however described by Webb as being 
very bitter. Our specimen was raised from seeds brought 
in 1880 by Mr. Perez from M. Wildpret, of the Botanic 
Gardens of Orotava; they flowered in March, 1882, in a 
AUGUsT Ist, 1882. 
