SYNGENESIA— POLYGAMIA-.EQU. Picris. 339 



abrupt, with 5 teeth. Filam. 5, capillary, very short. 

 Anl/i. in a cylindrical tube. Germ, nearly ovate. Siyle 

 thread-shaped, the length of the stamens. Stigm. 2, re- 

 flexed. Seed-vessel none, except the permanent calyx, 

 finally reflexed. Seed swelling, obtuse, transversely wrin- 

 kled. Down feathery, either sessile or stalked. Recepf, 

 naked, dotted. 

 Annual, biennial, or perennial, upright branching leafy 

 herbs, rough with rigid or bristly hairs, and exti*emely 

 bitter, as the generic name imports. Leaves oblong : 

 toothed or sinunted. FI. yellow. 



1 . P. echioides. Bristly Ox-tongue. 



Outer calyx of five broad prickly scales. Down stalked. 

 Leaves wavy. 



P. echioides. L'mn. Sp. PI. 1 1 14. Fl. Br. 814. Engl. Hot, v. 14. 



t. 972. Curt. Lond.fasc. 3.t.5\. 

 Helmintia echioides. 'fVilld. v. 3. 1 607. Gcertn. v. 2. 368. 

 Hieracium echioides, capitulis cardui benedicti. Bauh. Pin. 128. 



Raii Syn. 166. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 1028./. 1029. 

 Buglossum luteum. Ger, Em. 798./. 

 B. echioides luteum, Ilieraciocognatum. Lob. Ic. ^)77.f. 

 0\-tongue Hawkweed. Petiv. H. Brit. 1. 12./. 1 2. 



About hedges, the borders of fields, and in ground newly cleared^ 

 on a clay soil. 



Annual. Junti, July. 



Root tapering, and, like the wliole plant, abounding with a some- 

 what milky, extremely bilter, juice. Herb bright shining green, 

 beset with rigid very pungent bristles, each springing from a 

 white tubercle or wart. Stem round, furrowed, solid, branched, 

 leafy, 2 or 3 feet high. Lower leaves lanceolate ; upper heart- 

 shaped, clasping the stem. Fl. an inch broad, of a bright golden 

 yellow. Outer ealy.v of;") broad, heart shaped, loosely spreading 

 leaves, or scales, as long as the inner one, and fringed with 

 prickles. Seeds curiously wrinkled or furrowed transversely, a 

 more striking and important character of the genus than the in- 

 sertion of their feathery donn, which in this species is elevated 

 on a stalk about its own length. 



M. Revnier gathered P. echioides in Switzerland, but it is not in 

 Haller. 



A nearly smooth variety of tlie j)lant before us is represented 

 Hermann's Paradisus, p. IS,*). 



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2. P. Iiieracioulcs . Iliuvkweed Ox-tongue. 



Oiitf'V calvx of niinicioiis scales, much slioiter tliau the 



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