SYNGENESIA— POLYGAMIA-iEQU. Lacluca. ;J4j 



Stigm. 2, revoliite. Seed-vessel none, exce})t the uiinltered 

 closed calyx. Seed obovate, Jiirrovved, roiighish, com- 

 pressed. Doxvn capillary, verv slender, elevated on a stalk 

 about its own length. Recept. narrow, naked, dotted. 

 Milky, fetid, bitter, upright, biennial or animal herbs, with 

 solid, leafy stems. Leaves undivided or pinnatifid, some- 

 times toothed, or prickly. Fl. numerous, })anicled, yel- 

 low, pale, and rather small. L. perefinis haa blue and 

 rather large y/oicrr.v, with deej^ly pinnatifid smooth leaves. 



1 . L. virosa. Strong-scented Lettuce. 



Leaves horizontal, finely toothed ; the keel })rickly. 



L. virosa. Linn. Sp. PL 1119. miU. v. 3. 152(j. FL Br. 819. 

 EngL Bot. V. 28. t. 19.")/. Jroodv. suppL t. 2.i0. Hook. ScoL 227. 

 Ehrfi. PL Of.\37. 



L. n. 1.5. HulL Hist. v. 1.7. 



L. sylvcstris major, odore opii. Rail Sijn. Hi I. Ger. Km. 309./. 



L. sylvestris, opii odore, vehementer soporifero et viroso. Moris. 

 V. 3. ^jS.ficct. 7. t. 2./. 16. 



L. sylvcstris, lato folio, succo viroso. Banli. HisLv. 2. 1002./. 



L. sylvcstris vera. Dalech. Hist. 547 • f. 2. 



L. ap^restis. Cord. Hist. 157. 2./. Loh. Ic. 21 \.J. 



Endivia. Trag. nist.2GH. f. 



Thesion. DaUrh. Hist. .">G4. f. 



Broad, also Cut, Lettuce. Petiv. H. Brit. t. I.')./ 1 , 2. 



(5. Lactuca sylvcstris, folio non laciniato. Rail Syn. ed. 2. 70. 

 ed.3. 162. 



L. sylvestris n. 2. Ger. Em. 309; nof. 



About hedges, old walls, and the borders of fields, on a chalky 

 soil, not uncommon. 



Biennial. Augnst, Septeuiher. 



Wliole herb aboundinj^ with an acrid fetid milky juice, having the 

 smell and narcotic proj)crtics of Opium. This juice sj)rings out 

 suddcnlv, in large droj)s, on the slightest touch, from tiic calyx 

 and tender Icavf^s, evincing a considerable degree of irritability 

 in the plant. The root is ta])-sha})c(l. Stem solitary, 2 or 3 feet 

 high, erect, round, smooth, sparingly leafy, scarcely branched ; 

 panicled at the top ; a little prickly below. Leaves horizontal, 

 nearly smooth, finely toothed ; radical ones numerous, obovate, 

 undivided, depressed ; those of the stem smaller, often lobed ; 

 arrow.shaj)ed and clasping at their base ; the mid-rib of all more 

 or less beset underneath with prominent prickles, such as often 

 occur on the margin also. Fl. numerous, panicled, with abun- 

 dance of small, heart-shaped, pointed hrnrtcas. Calyx. scales 

 downv at the tip, destitute of an\- keel or ribs. Cn . small, light 

 vrllow. Seed down rough. 



