SYNGENESIA~POLYGAM.-iEQU. Cichorium. 379 



H. minimum. Cliis. Hist. v. 2. 143. f. Pan?2. 647./. G49. 

 Intybus, sive Endivia lutea minima, &c. Moris, v. 3.53. sect. 7. 



t.l.f.S. 

 Small Swine's Succory. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 15./, 9. 



In gravelly fields. 



About Hampton Court. Doodij. At Walthamstow. Sir W.Watson, 

 and Mr. E. Forster. Dorsetshire. Dr. Pnlteney. Bedfordshire. 

 Rev. Dr. Abbot. Near Arminghall vvood_, 3 miles south of Nor- 

 wich. 



Annual. June. 



Root small, tapering. Leaves all radical, depressed, obovate-ob- 

 long, strongly toothed, scarcely hairy, but rough at the edges. 

 Stalks several, more or less branched and swelling above j slen- 

 der and purplish below ; round, smooth, terminating in a few 

 hollow, tumid partial-stalks, each bearing a small, bright, yet 

 not full yellow,^ower. Cal. smooth j its scales all linear, point- 

 ed ; the inner ones finally channelled and hardened. Seeds an- 

 gular, smooth, each crowned with an elevated border, as ex- 

 pressed in Engl. Bat. and well magnified by Gsertner, though 

 less obvious in Dr. Hooker's otherwise excellent plate. The re- 

 ceptacle is smooth, slightly cellular. 



Dr. Hooker justly adverts to an erroneous passage in Engl. Bot., 

 " seeds crowned with an elevated rim, more rarely with short 

 simple down." The first part of this sentence is correct j the 

 latter originated in the generic character given by Linnaeus, ap- 

 plied by him to the present plant, in consequence of a mistaken 

 specimen in his herbarium, whose origin I cannot trace, but 

 which he marked minima, affixing it to an authentic one. The 

 description in Fl. Brit, is nevertheless accurate. 



381. CICHORIUM. Succory. 



Linn. Gen. A06. Jmss. 1/1. Fl.Br.843. Toimi. t.272. Lam. 

 t. 658. Gartn. t. 157. 



Common Cal. double, cylindrical; outermost of a few ob- 

 long, rather lax, shortish scales ; inner of 8 or more, 

 longer, converging, linear, equal ones, permanent, at 

 length recurved. Cor. compound, of about 20 spread- 

 ing, somewhat imbricated, ligulate, abrupt, deeply 5- 

 toothed, perfect jiorets. Filam. capillary, very short. 

 Arith. in a pentagonal tube. Germ, obovate. Stijle thread- 

 shaped, equal with the stamens. Stigmas revolute. Seed- 

 vessel none, except the converging calyx. Seed obscurely 

 5-sided, abrupt. Doim of several chaffy upright bristles, 

 shorter than the seed. Recept. slightly chaffy, beset with 

 a few upright slender scales, shorter than the seed. 



Milky, bitter, perennial or biennial, upright, leafy herbs. 



