SYNGENESIA— POLYGAM.-.EQU. rreiianthes. :J17 



Engl. Dot. V. 10. t. 707. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 17. 16. Jacq. Austr. 

 t. 250. 



L. n. 13. Hall. HisL v. 1.7. 



L. sylvestris minima. Hdii Srjn. 162. Omf. 83. 



L. svlvestiis altera, angiisto saligno folio, costA albican te. Hupp. 

 Jen. ed Hall 207. t. 4. 



L. sylvestris annua, costa spinosa, folio anguslissimo glauco. Mo- 

 m.r.3.:)S. 5cc^.7. /. 6./. 18. 



Chondrilla viscosa humilis. Bank. Pin. \?A). Prodr. i]S.f. Ger. 

 Km. 287. 



Endivia minor lactucina Sjiinosa. Barrel. Ic. t. 136. 



Small Jagged Lettuce. Petiv. 11. Brit. t. 15./. 4. 



In chalky waste ground, or about salt marshes. 



Near Cambridge. Rmj. .^bout Pancras church, T. IVtliml. J^e- 

 hind the Small-pox hospital. Sir .J. Banks. In shady lanes in 

 Dorsetshire, but rare. Dr. Pultency. At Southend, Essex. Rev. 

 R. B. Francis. In marshes in Kent. Dickson. 



Biennial. August. 



Whole plant very slender. Stem 2 feet high, wavy, pale brown or 

 whitish, somewhat branched, leafy throughout. Leaves glau- 

 cous, smooth except the mid-rib beneath, entire at the edges, 

 sessile, very narrow, acute, clasping at the base ■ some linear j 

 others hastate ; a few of the largest deeply pinnatifid. Fl. in 

 small alternate tufts composing long clusters. Cat. glaucous. 

 ('or. very small, pale yellow, open in sunshine only, and soon 

 fading. Down rough. ... 



The mid-rib is occasionally smooth on both sides. In (pialitics this 

 species most resembles the last. 



374. PRENANTHES. AVall-lettuce. 



Linn. Gen. 40 1 . Jnss. I 6S. Fl. Br. 82 1 . / aill. Mrm. dv I' Ac. dcs Sc. 

 717./. 2. Gccrtn. t. 158. 



Common Cal. cylintlrical, smooth, double: the innermost of 

 as many linear, ecpial scales as there are florets ; outer ol 

 a few very short unecpial ones at the base. Cor. com- 

 pound, of a simple row of perfect, ecjual, ligulate, abrupt, 

 4-- or .'^-toothed /lords. Filam. capillary. Anth. in a 

 slender cvlinclrical tube. Germ, oblong. Slylc capillary, 

 prominent. Sliii^m. 2, revolute. Srnl-rrssr! none, except 

 the converging calyx. Scrd obovate-oblong, furrowed or 

 angular. Donn capillary, roughisli, nearly or (piite ses- 

 sile. Rccrpt. naked, very narrow. 



Ainmal or perennial, milky, smooth hrrhs, various n\ foliage, 

 with uprighl panicled .s7r;//.s\ and small yellow, purple, or 

 uhitey/'ncr/.s. 



