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FRANCOA SONCHIFOLIA, SOW-THISTLE-LEAVED 
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Class and Order. i 
OctanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Gatacinez. Don. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx 4-partitus, persistens. Petala 4. Stamina 8, fertilia, 
totidem sterilia minuta cum iis alternantia. Germen 4-sul- 
catum. Stigma sessile 4-lobatum. Capsula 4-loba, 4-lo- 
cularis, polysperma. Semina angulo interiori loculorum 
inserta. o foe 
Pia! 
PEN 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Francoa sonchifolia ; caulescens, foliis lyratis decurrentibus 
lobis distantibus ala sinuata sursum angustata con- 
junctis, racemo spicato erecto, pedunculo pedicellisque 
pubescentibus. Grah. 
Francoa sonchifolia. Juss. in Ann. des Sc. Nat. v. 3. p. 
192. ¢.12. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 262. Don in 
_ Edin. Phil. Journ. 1828. Pee 
LianPankeE amplissimo sonchifolio. Fewzll. Journ. v. 1. p. 
742: t. 31. iio. 
Panxe sonchifolia. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 487. 
This species is at once distinguished from Francoa ap- 
pendiculata (see tab. 3168 of this work) by the presence of 
a stem ; the flowers being very similar. In describing F. 
appendiculata (Edinburgh New Phil. Journal, June 1832,) 
I made, though doubtfully, the same reference to the An- 
nales des Sciences Naturelles as is given above ; but 1 now 
believe the absence of stem in the single specimen to whick 
Jussieu had access, to have arisen from the plant havir 
a 
flowered when young. No, 826 of Cumine’s Herbarium, | 
which seems to me, on several accounts, a very distinct 
Species, 
