Class XIX. Order 1. 



SYNGENESIA. 



215. CICHORIUM. 

 CICHOIUUM INTYBUS. L. Succory. 



Flowers in pairs, sessile ; leaves runcinate. 



The large, blue flowers of this elegant plant are extremely 

 common in pastures and road sides every where in the vicinity 

 of Boston. Stem two or three feet high, strong, angular, brist- 

 ly. Leaves roughish, the radical ones runcinate, those of the 

 stem heart-shaped, acuminate, and sessile. Flowers mostly in 

 pairs, sessile upon the sides of the stem. Calyx leaves erect, 

 rough on the back, reflexed as they grow old. Florets of the 

 corolla ligulate, ending in about five minute teeth. From July 

 to September. Perennial. 



216. APARGIA. 

 APARGIA AUTUMNALIS. Willd. Autumnal Hawkiveed. 



Scape branching, peduncles scaly ; leaves lan- 

 ceolate, tooth-pinnatifid, smoothisli. L. 



Syn. LEONTODON AUTUM^ALE. L.. 

 HEDTPXOIS AufuMNALi.s Sm. 



This plant, probably an emigrant from Europe, has over- 

 run the vicinity of this place, and grows in almost every kind of 

 soil. It begins flowering in June and July, and is nearly the 

 test plant that yields to the frosts of November. Root abrupt. 

 Leaves all radical, spreading, lanceolate, more or less toothed 

 and pinnatifid, according to the soil in which they grow, usual- 

 ly curving to one side. Scape spreading, bending upwards, 



