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ricate, crowned with a stipitate hairy pappus. Receptacle convex, dotted, 



naked. - , ^ ? ? 



The leaves and stalk of this plant, like those of most of the semifloscu- 

 lous plants, discharge when broken a milky acrid juice, which is generally 



narcotic 



Grows in damp soils. An exotic now naturalized. 

 Flowers from January to April- 



BORKHAUSIA. De Candolle. 



Imolucrum calicula- I Inmlucrum surroun- 

 tum, squamis exteriori- ded at base with a few 



bus laxis. Pappus pi 

 losus, stipitatus. Re 

 ceptaculum nudum. 



« ■ 



loose scales. Pappus 

 hairy, stipitate. Re' 

 ceptacle naked. 



1. Caroliniana. 



L 



B. foliis oblongis, I Leaves oblong, Ian- 

 lanceolatis, glabris, ra- ceolate, glabrous, rare- 

 nter dentatls, interdura \y toothed, sometimes 



pinnatifidis; caule e- pinnatifid; stem erect, 

 ^ecto, paucifloro; pe- few flowered; pedun 

 «unculis elongatis. j cles long. 



Nutt. 2. p. 126. 



Leontodon Carolinianura. Walt. p. 192. 



^corzonera Pinnatifida. Mich. 2. p. 89. Pursh, 2. p. 497". 



^hondrdla Laevigata. Pursh, 2. p. 497. 



summit 



old n' vj '""«»uc, nit:; ouuiiuii. xjvucts aiitTiiaie, narrow, wiien 



the P;""^!"'^!. pubescent along the margins. Flowers very few, solitary on 



branches 



series i • ^ nrancnes. invoiucrum many leaved; the mtenor 

 sli^htl, •" u .""'*^*^» ^m^Bx, with a dorsal tooth near the summit, the exterior 

 yel W Q "?*t', ^"^'^^t*^' s^ort. Florets ligulate, very numerous, bright 

 hairv «♦:«•; ? °^'<^ng> compressed, striate, slightly rugose, crowned with a 

 «any stipuate pappus. The stipes remarkably long. 



Fw! ''^ P««*f ^s ^"^{ cultivated land-very common. 

 * lowers March— July. ^ 



