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COMPOSIT-E. (COMPOSITE FAMILY.) 
ennial weeds, with large unarmed heart-shaped and petioled leaves, 
with undulate margins, and the lower surface somewhat woolly. 
Heads small, solitary or clustered : flowers purple, rarely white. 
(Name from XajSeu/, to lay hold , the involucre forming a hooked 
burr which holds tenaciously to the dress or fleece of animals.) 
1. L. major, Giertn. (Common Burdock.) Upper leaves 
ovate, the lower very large, heart-shaped; involucre smoothish. 
(Arctium Lappa, L.) — Waste places and around dwellings, introduc¬ 
ed. July. 
L. Bardana, a species or variety with pinnatifid leaves, has been 
observed near Boston by Mr. Tuckerman, and in Pennsylvania by 
Dr. Darlington. 
Suborder II. LIGULIFLOR.AE. 
Tribe VI. CICHORACEiE. The Succory Tribe. 
Flowers all perfect and ligulate. Branches of the style slender, 
obtuse, uniformly hairy, the stigmatic lines terminating near the 
middle. — Plants with a milky juice ! Leaves alternate. (See 
Synopsis , p. 189.) 
58. LAMPSANA, Tourn. Nipple-wort. 
Heads 8 - 12-flowered. Scales of the cylindrical involucre 8, 
erect, in one row. Receptacle naked. Achenia oblong. Pappus 
none. — Slender branching herbs, with angled or toothed leaves, 
and loosely panicled small heads : flowers yellow. (Name from 
\airafr, to purge.) 
I. I,. communis, L. Annual, nearly smooth ; lower leaves 
ovate, sometimes lyre-shaped. -Road-sides, sparingly introduced near 
Boston, scarcely naturalized. 
59. CICHORITTM, Tourn. Succory. 
Heads many-flowered. Involucre double, the outer of 5 short 
spreading scales, the inner of 8-10 scales. Achema stnate. 
Pappus of numerous very small chaffy scales, forming a s i 
crown.-Branching perennials, with the root-leaves toothed or 
pinnatifid; the sessile heads axillary and terminal. Flowers 
bright blue, showy. (Altered from the Arabian name of the 
plant.) 
1. C. Intybus, L. (Common Succory or Cichort.) &tem 
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