SYNGENESIA— P0LYGAM.-.T:QU. Arctium. 581 



Fl. axillary, either sessile or stalked, generally globose, with 

 little or no woolliness about the calyx ; in y encompassed with 

 a few small leaves ; in S said to be rather ovate, not larger than 

 filberds. F/ore/*', with their ajithers and stigmas, purple. The 

 calyx, when in seed, easily breaks from its stalk, and is well 

 known by the name of a Bur, sticking to the coats of animals, 

 and the hair or clothing of young rustics, which can hardly be 

 cleared of such incumbrances without breaking the scales 

 asunder and scattering the seeds. 

 The surface of the herbage leaves a slightly viscid, very bitter, 

 exudation on the fingers. The plant itself, a very cumbrous 

 weed, is removed, the first year of its growth, by stubbing, like 

 other things comprehended by farmers under the name of docks, 

 and paid for accordingly to tlie weeder. 



2. A. Bardana, Woolly-headed Burdock. 



Leaves stalked, heart-shaped, nearly entire and even, with- 

 out prickles. Calyx when in seed cottony. 



A. Bardana. WilU. Sp. PL v. 3. 1 632. Comp. ed. 4. 133. Engl. 

 Bot.v.35. L247S. 



A. Lappa. Linn. Sp. PI. 1 143 /3. FL Dan. t. 642. 



Arction montanum, et Lappa minor Galeni. Lob. Ic. 587./. 



Lappa n. 161, a. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 70. 



L. tomentosa, JUion. Pedem. v. 1. 144. DeCand. v. A. 77. 



L. major montana, capitulis tomentosis. Raii Syn. 197. 



Personata, sive Lappa major, altera. Matth. J algr. v. 2. 4dS./. 

 Dalech.HisLXOo.'y.f. 



Personalia. Fuchs. Hist. 72. f. /c. 4 1 . f. 



Great Woolly-headed Burdock. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 23./. o. 



/S. Lappa major montana, capitulis minoribus, rotundioribus et 

 magis tomentosis. Raii Syn. 11)7. 



Personata altera, cum capitulis villosis. Bauh. Hist. r. 3. ,571. /'. 



Small Woolly -headed Burdock. Pttiv. //. Brit. t. 23./. 4. 



y. Lappa major ex omni parte minor, capitulis parvis, elegant^r 

 reticuUitis. Pink. Alma '^.20:). Raii Sun. l!)7. 



Cobweb-headed Burdock. ' Petw. //. Bnl. t. 23./. 6. 



In waste ground, by way sides, and among rubbish, common. 



^. On mountains in the north of England. 



Biennial. .//////, Ai/oust. 



Like the foregoing in size and habit, but the leaves are less undu- 

 lated, more downy beneath. Stem of a dull red. Cal. globose ; 

 in (S smaller and more deijrcBsed ; in all the varieties the scales 

 are interwoven with dense, white, cottony down. 



Professor U'illdenow declares that he has often raised this second 

 sj)ecies from seed, and found it con>tant. In deference to his 

 autliority, 1 have distinguished these two species, enumerating 

 the rej)uted varieties of each, that botanists, who wish to pur- 



