PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Tordylium. 103 



Jagged Cow Favsncp. Pet. H. Brit. t. 24./. 2. 



In hedges, the borders of fields, and rather moist meadows, very 

 common*. 



Biennial. Jiihj. 



Root tap-shajjed, whitish, aromatic, sweetish and rather mucilagi- 

 nous. Stem 4 feet high, erect, branched, leafy, furrowed, rough 

 with white s])reading hairs. Leaves large, ternate or pinnate 5 

 lea/lets usually broad, rather heart-shaped, lobed, serrated, veiny, 

 hairy, paler beneath ; varying occasionally very much in breadth, 

 and in the variety /3, which that excellent observer the late Mr. 

 Woodward found gron'ing on the same root with the common 

 kind, deeply pinnatifid, the 2 lowest lobes elongated and spread- 

 ing in a radiating manner, as delineated by Jacquin and Pluke- 

 net. Footstalks hairy ; dilated, ribbed, concave, and sheathing, 

 at the base. Umbels flattish, of many angular rays, which are 

 downy at one side, like the more numvrous, partial rays. Brac- 

 teas lanceolate, membranous, finely fringed, with long taper 

 points, the general ones few, soon falling off, or altogether want- 

 ing. Fl. more or less conspicuously radiant, white, or reddish ; 

 many, in the central portion of each partial umbel, barren, with 

 no traces of a germeii. Fruit abund^mt, light brown^ with 4 

 puri)lish-brown lines at each side. 



The whole plant is wholesome and nourishing food for cattle ; and 

 is gathered in Sussex for fattening hogs, being known by the 

 name of Hog- weed, as I have learned from Sir Thomas Frank- 

 land. 



Tu'o very able botanists having compared a Yorkshire narrow- 

 leaved specimen, with one from Sweden of the true Linna^an 

 //. angustifulium, they assured me of its being indubitably the 

 same. Hence I admitted //. a)igusfifulium into the Flora Bri- 

 tannica, with a description made from the plant in the Linniuan 

 herbarium, which is clearly a diyLinct species ; but on seeing the 

 Yorksliire specimen, I at once perceived the mistake, which is 

 corrected in Engl. But. Jacquin's angustifulium is doubtless our 

 variety, wliatever his longijoliuni, Fl. Austr. i. j 74, a much larger 

 plant, nuiy be. 



172. TORDYLIUM. Hait-uort. 



Finn. den. 1.30. Juss.22\. Fl. Br.2\)\. Spnng. Frodr. II. Tourn. 

 /. 170. Lam.t.\[\'6. (iccrln.t.2\. 



Fl. in<nc or less jierfcctly separated, irregular; those of the 

 circuinference fertile. CV//. of 5 awl-shaj)e(l, unequal, tle- 

 ciihious or ])erniaiieut teeth. Pet. .'3; in the innermost 

 flowers sniailest, nearly ecpial and unitorni, inversely 

 heart-shaped, with an indexed point: in those of llu' cir- 

 cuinference radiant, variously unetpial and irregular, in- 



