SYNGENESIA— POLYGAM.-/EQU. Lapsana. 377 



long, angular, furrowed, sniootli. Duison none. Recept. 

 naked, flat, narrow. 

 Herbs various in habit, more or less milky, with or without 

 a leafy stem. Leaves toothed, or pinnatifid. Fl. small, 

 yellow. 



1. L. communis. Common Nipple-wort. 



Calyx of the fruit angular. Stem branched, panicled, leafy. 

 Leaves ovate, stalked, toothed. Flower-stalks cylindri- 

 cal, even. 



L. communis. Linn.Sp.Vl.WW. Jrilld.v.S. \624. FI.Br.842. 

 En^L Bot. r. 1 2. ^ 844. Curt. Lond.fasc. 1 . <. 59. Hook. Scot. 

 234. Fl. Dan. t. 500. 



L. n.6. Hall. Hist. v.\. 4. 



Lampsana. Rail %«. 173. Ger. Em. 255./. Dod Pempt. 67^ f. 

 Bank. Hist. v.± 1028./. Lob. Ic.207.f. Dalech. Hi.i. 54\ .f.2. 



Nipple- wort. Petiv.H. Brit. t. 14./ 12. 



In waste as well as cultivated ground, freqs ent. 



Annual. Jime, July. 



Root branching, with many fibres ; simple at the crown. Herb 

 deep green, a little hairy. Stem solitary, 2 or 3 feet high, erect, 

 round, branched, leafy, almost solid, nearly or quite smooth. 

 Leaves ])liant and thin, somewhat hairy ; radical ones lyrate ; 

 upper alternate, stalked, ovate, acute, toothed. Panicle re- 

 peatedly divided, erect. Flower-stalks round, naked, smooth, 

 of equal thickness throughout, with a linear-lanceolate, pointed 

 bractea at the base of each. Fl. very small, bright yellow. Cal. 

 smooth, hardened when closed about the seeds, wliich are few, 

 angular, without any down, or crown of any kind. 



The ICnglish name alludes to an old idea of the herb curing sore 

 breasts, for which Camerarius reports that it has been used in 

 Prussia . 



2. \j. pusilla. Dwarf Nipple-wort. Swine's Succory. 



Stalks radical, leafless, subdivided; swelling and tubular at 



the sunnnit. Leaves obovate, rough-edged, toothed. 

 L. pusilla. Jnild.Sp.Pl.v.'3.\623. Comp. ed. 4. ]'A3. Hook. Land. 



t. (J5. 

 L. minima. Hook. Scot. 234. 

 L. n. 4. Hall. Hist. v.\. 4. 

 Ilvoscris minima. Linn. Sp. PL 1 138. Huds. 3 If). Fl. Br. 839. 



'Fnirl. Bot. V. 2. t. 95. Fl. Dan. t. 20 1 . Fhrh. Herb. 30. 

 H.mascula. Ger. Am. 28H./. 

 Arnoscris pusilla. Gccrtn. v. 2. 355. t. 157.7. •^• 

 liiiiiuium minimum Clusii, Ilvoscris TaberiuiMuonlaiu cJ (m - 



r.«r(h. Bn>\ Si/n. I 73. 



