SYNGENESIA— POLYGAM.-^QU. Arctium. 379 



rendered mild and eatable by culture. Leaves oblong, 

 pinnatifid and toothed. FL blue, large and handsome. 



1. C. Intyhus. Wild Succory. 



Flowers in pairs, both nearly sessile. Leaves runcinate. 



C. Intybus. Linn. Sp. PL 1 1 42. milcL v.3.\ 628. Fl. Br. 843. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 8. t. .539. Curt. Land. fuse. 4. t. 5G. Mart, Rust. 

 1. 144. Jroodv. suppl. t. 248. UooL Scot. 234. Fl. Dan. t. 907. 



C. n. 1. Hall. Ilist.v. 1.1. 



C. sylvestre. RaiiSyn.\72. Ger.Em.2Si.f. Matth. Falgr.v. \. 

 458./ Bauh. Hist. r. 2. 1007./. 1008. 



C. sylvestre, sive officinarum. Bauh. Pin. 125. 



Cichovea. Trag. Hist. 272. f. 



Intubus sylvestris. Camer. Epit. 285./ 



Intubum sylvestre. Fuchs. Hist. 679./ Ic. 390./ 



I. sylvestre angustifolium, Dalech. Hist. 557./ 



Wild Succoiy. Petiv. H. Brit. 1. 14./ 1 1 . 



About the borders and ridges of fields, and by road sides, chiefly 

 on a gravelly or chalky soil, frequent. 



Perennial. July, August. 



jRoo< spindle-shaped, fleshy, whitish, milky. Stem 2 or 3 feet high, 

 either erect or oblique, solid, round, furrowed, rough with bristly 

 hairs, leafy, alternately branched, very tough. Radical leaves 

 numerous,' spreading, above a span long, runcinate, toothed, 

 roughish ; those on the stem much smaller, sessile, less lobed, 

 the upper ones heart-shaped, taper-pointed, entire. Fl. large and 

 luindsome, of a beautiful bright blue, axillary, in pairs, all nearly 

 or quite sessile. Cal. roughish, Anth. and stigm. blue. 



The root roasted is a substitute for Coftee in some parts of Ger- 

 many, and is said, when simply dried, to have served to make 

 bread. The herb, in a luxuriant cultivated state, is an excellent 

 early fodder for horses and cows. Prof. Miu-tyn has detailed all 

 its agricultural j)ropertics. 



Sometimes the Jlou-ers are found of a brilliant white. 



** Florefs allfuhuhn; xvil/i a Jivr-r/r/'f sprcddiu^j^ limb ; an 



enlirclij natural order. 

 Composita:, a, eapitat(r. Linn. \-9. V'lnarocephaUc. Juss. .54. 

 See Grammar 121. 



Wm. AUCTIUx\r. Burdock. 



Lauh. GV'/j.407. fl /?r.Sll. 



J/ippa. Juss.\'j:\. Tourti. t 2:>C}. Lam. t. GCki. iiintn.t.MVZ. 



Common Cat. globular, injbricated, of luuiu rous, lanceo- 

 late, tapering scales, ending in aul->li;i|>((l, liooktd, irj- 



