CAMPANALS. 234 COMPOSITES. 
* * * CicHORACEOUS COMPOSITES. 
TARAXACUM. 
Pappus filiform, very soft, deciduous. Bracts in 2 rows ; the outer short 
and lax. Achenia compressed, beaked, muricated. Receptacle 
naked. 
1. T. Dens Leonis Desfontaines.—(Danpetion.. Dent pe Lion.) | e 
Leaves runcinate, toothed ; achzenia linear, obovate, blunt, scaly, muricated, 
with a long beak. 
Habitat. aoe and waste places, agrarrpbere, 
ity. ic, tonic, aperient, diuretic. . gn 
Fea Week diseetioni hepatie affections, dropsy, dyspepsia, cutaneous diseases, uterine 
obstructions. 
Lactuca. Linneus. 
Pappus filiform, soft, deciduous. Heads few-flowered. Bracts in 2-4 : 
rows, outer shorter, with a membranous edge. Receptacle naked. 
Acheenia compressed, contracted into a filiform beak, which is not 
muricated. 
1. L, virosa Linneus.—(Acrw LETTUCE.) : ee 
Leaves with a prickly keel, auricled, toothed or sinuate, mucronate ; achenia— 
black, as long as the white beak. 
Habitat. Dry banks. 
Quality. Narcotic, subacrid. 
Uses. Yields Lettuce-opium or Lactucarium. 
2. L. Scariola Linneus.—(Prickty LETTUCE.) : 
Leaves with a prickly keel, sagittate, sinuate, amplexicaul ; achenia pale 
as long as the white beak. 
Habitat, Waste'places, 
“Quality and Uses. As in the last. 
3. L. sativa Linneus.—(Ganven Lettuce.) th 
Leaves oblong, erect, narrower at the base, smooth on the keel; wi 
long leafy flowering stem. 
Habitat. East — Common in gardens. nee 
A e, m i isiac ?). wi 
Uses. Leaves litenty as po ager seks moa eehinialas ughs, inflammation, 
nervous disorders, as a substitute for opium, but more uncertain. 
Scorzonera. Linneus. 
appus feathery, in several rows. Bracts imbricated. Receptacle nake 
Acheenia neither stalked nor beaked, with a lateral sear. 
1. 8. hispanica Linnseus,—(Virer’s Grass.) ; 
t cylindrical, succulent ; branches monocephalous ; leaves ample: 
____ lanceolate, wavy ; involucres smooth ; flowers yellow. 
_ Habitat. Spain and the south of Europe. Common in gardens. 
Quality. Root said to be sudorific ; nutritious, subaromatic. = 
see, A delicate entable root; fancied by the Spaniards to be a specifie against 
Cronortum. Linneus. : 
Pappus two rows of minute pales. Bracts in 2 unequal rows, th 
___ Teflexed from the first, the inner afterwards. Receptacle nearly 
___ Acheenia obovate, striated. Se 
