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LACTUCA VIROSA. STRONG-SCENTED WILD LETTUCE, 
SYNONYMA. La@uea virofa, Pharm, Edinb. nov. New Ed, 
Difpenf. 217, Murray. App. Med. vol. 6. 13, Lactuca fylvettris, 
odore virofo. Baub. Pin. 123. Lattuca fylveftris major, odore 
opii. Gerard. Emac. 309. Lattuea Endiviz foliis, odore virofo. ~ 
Park. 813. Ray. Hift. 219. Synop. 161. Haller. Hift. 15, 
L. virofa. Hudfon. Flor. Ang. 337. Withering. Bot. Arr. 835. 
Ic. Collin. Of, vi. pref 
Syngenefia. Polygamia Aiqualis. Lin. * HS. Plant. Jog. 
Gen. Ch. Recept. nudum, Cal. imbricatus, cylindricus, margine . 
gmembranaceo. Pappus fimplex, ftipitatus, Sem. levia. 
Sp. Ch. L. foliis horizontalibus carina aculeatis dentatis, 
ROOT biennial, 5 Seo ‘branched, firm, furnifhed with long 
fibres. Stalk from two to four feet high, flender, ereét, round, 
prickly near the bafe, above fmooth, branched. Branches {preading, 
Leaves at the root oblong, wedge-fhaped, entire, or cut into winged _ 
clefts, toothed, commonly prickly at the underfide of the midrib, 
feffile, horizontal: leaves onthe ftem arrow-fhaped, embracing the 
‘ftalk, either entire or cut into pinnated lobes: upper and floral leaves 
arrow-fhaped, entire, pointed, embracing the branches at which they 
are placed. Flowers compofed of numerous equal yellow florets, 
‘Calyx oblong, confifting of feveral {mall {pear-fhaped unequal {cales, 
Florets numerous, uniform, hermaphrodite, each compofed of narrow 
petals, cut at the extremity into four or five minute teeth. Filaments 
- frve, very fhort, hair-like. Anthere forming a cylindrical tube. 
‘Germen egg-thaped. Style filiform. Stigmata two, reflexed. Seeds 
ovate, compreffed, lodged upon the naked receptacle, and furnifhed 
with a fimple hairy feather placed upon a footftalk. 
It grows about ditch banks, borders of fields, and old walls, 
flowering in July and Auguft. 
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