378 SYNGENESIA— POLYGAM.-^QU. Cichorium. 



H. minimum. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 143./. Pann. 647./. 649. 

 Intybus, sive Endivia lutea minima, &c. Moris, v. 3. 53. sect. 7. 



t. ].f.8. 

 Small Swine's Succory. Peiiv. H. Brit. t. 15./. 9. 



In gravelly fields. 



About Hampton Court. Doody. AtWalthamstow. Sir W. Watson, 

 and Mr. E. Forster. Dorsetshire. Dr. Pulteney. Bedfordshire. 

 Rev. Dr. Abbot. Near Arminghall wood, 3 miles south of Nor- 

 wich. 



Annual. June. 



Root small, tapering. Leaves all radical, depressed, obovate-ob- 

 long, strongly toothed, scarcely hairy, but rough at the edges. 

 Stalks several, more or less branched and swelling above ; slen- 

 der and purplish below ) round, smooth, terminating in a few 

 hollow, tumid partial-stalks, each bearing a small, bright, yet 

 not full yellow,^oit'er. Cal. smooth ; its scales all linear, point- 

 ed ; the inner ones finally channelled and hardened. Seeds an- 

 gular, smooth, each crowned with an elevated border, as ex- 

 pressed in Engl. Bot. and well magnified by Gaertner, though 

 less obvious in Dr. Hooker's otherwise excellent plate. The re- 

 ceptacle is smooth, slightly cellular. 



Dr. Hooker justly adverts to an erroneous passage in Engl. Bot., 

 " seeds crowned with an elevated rim, more rarely with short 

 simple do?t-w." The first part of this sentence is correct j the 

 latter originated in the generic character given by Linnaeus, ap- 

 plied by him to the present plant, in consequence of a mistaken 

 specimen in his herbarium, whose origin I cannot trace, but 

 which he marked minima, affixing it to an authentic one. The 

 description in Fl. Brit, is nevertheless accurate. 



381. CICHORIUM. Succory. 



Linn. Gi^n. 406. Juss.\7\. FL Br. 84S. Tourn.t.272. Lam. 

 t. 658. Gcertn. 1. 157. 



Common Cal. double, cylindrical ; outermost of a few ob- 

 long, rather lax, shortish scales ; inner of 8 or more, 

 longer, converging, linear, equal ones, permanent, at 

 length recurvecl. Cor. com pound, of about 20 spread- 

 ing, somewhat imbricated, ligulate, abrupt, deeply .5- 

 toothed, perfect florets. Filam. capillary, very short. 

 Anth. in a pentagonal tube. Germ, obovate. Style thread- 

 shaped, equal with the stamens. Stigmas revolute. Seed- 

 vessel none, except die converging calyx. Seed obscurely 

 5-sided, abrupt. Doxvn of several chaffy upright bristles, 

 shorter than the seed. Hccept. slightly chaffy, beset with 

 a few upright slender scales, shorter than the seed. 



Milky, bitter, perennial or biennial, upright, leafy herbs, 



