3i6 SYNGENESIA— POLYGAMIA-^QU. Lactuca. 



Respect for Ray and Gerarde may lead us to suppose our /3 differs 

 in some degree from the plant in its ordinary state, with which 

 Ray says it is found, though rarely. Its scent is reported to be 

 milder. Gerarde cites the above synonyms of Tragus and Dale- 

 champ for this variety ; but neither their figures, nor Petiver's 

 f. 1, indicate any thing but the most common appearance of the 

 leaves, which are liable, on the same plant, to be wavy or 

 slightly lobed ; a difference which cannot be attended with any 

 change of quality. Ray, and Dillenius who merely copies him, 

 mention this variety as if it belonged to L. Scariola ; but Gerarde 

 certainly takes it ior L.virosa. C. Bauhin confounds some of 

 its synonyms with the following. 



2. L. Scariola, Prickly Lettuce. 



Leaves perpendicular, sinuated, finely toothed ; the keel 

 prickly. 



L. Scariola. Linn. Sp. PlAW 9. Willd. v.3. 1526. FL Br. 820. 



Engl. Bot. V. 4. t. 268. Fl. Dan. t. 1227. 

 L. n. 14. Hall. Hist. V. 1.7. 



L. sylvestris, costa spinosa. Bauh. Pin. 123. Rati Syn. 161. 

 L. sylvestris laciniata, Moris, v. 3. 58. sec^ 7. t.2.f. 17. 

 L. sylvestris, foliis dissectis. Ger. Em. 309./. 

 L. sylvestris. Trag. Hist. 259. f. Fuchs. Hist. 301. f. /c. 172./. 



Matlh. Valgr. v. 1.476./. Canier. Epit. 300./. Dalech. Hist. 



L. sylvestris, sive Endivia multis dicta, folio laciniato, dorse spi- 

 noso. Baiih. Hist. v. 2. 1003./. 



Endivia major lactucina spinosa. Barrel. Ic. 1. 135. 



Jagged Lettuce. Petiv. H. Brit. t.l5.f.3. 



In waste ground, and dry stony borders of fields. 



In several parts of the isle of Ely. Relhan. Sent by Rev. Mr. 

 Hemsted from Denny abbey, between Cambridge and Ely. 

 Engl. Bot. 



Biennial. August. 



Whole herb glaucous, milky, bitter, but less fetid than the pre- 

 ceding. Stem 2 or 3 feet high, erect, leafy, panicled. Leaves nu- 

 merous, vertical, not horizontal, variously pinnatifid and toothed; 

 their mid-rib furnished underneath with aclose row of prominent 

 prickles ; their base clasping the stem. Floral-leaves, or brac- 

 teas, heart-shaped, entire. Fl. small, pale lemon-coloured, all 

 their parts much like the last. 



3. L. saltgna. Least Lettuce. 



Leaves linear ; hastate or pinnatifid, entire, sessile ; the 



keel prickly. 

 L. Saligna. Linn. Sp. PL 1119. Willd. v. 3. 1528. FL Br. 820. 



