SYNGENESIA. AAQUALIS. Lapsana. 677 
LAPSANA. Recept. naked : calyx double ; all the 
inner scales channeled. 
L. Calyxes after flowering, angular: fruit-stalks slender, communis. 
much branched. 
Dicks, hy s.—Curt.-E. bot. 844—Kniph. 5-Fl. dan. 500-Lob. 
obs. 104. 1, and ic. 1. 207. 1~Ger. em. 255—-Park. 810. 
1-F. B. ii. 1028-Doed. 675. 2-H. ox. vii. 1. 9-Pet. 14. 
12—Ger. 231. 8. 
Seeds all naked, none involved.in the scales.of the calyx. 
Linn, Stem 2 to 4 feet high, stiff, hollow, cylindrical, scored, 
hairy. Leaves alternate; the ower egg-shaped, on leaf-stalks ; 
the xpper spear-shaped, higher up strap-shaped, the uppermost 
awl-shaped. Leaf-stalks bodied: the border wing-cleft, and 
1 or 2 pair of wings, slightly hairy. Flowering branches long, 
naked, or with | or 2 aw]-shaped scales, much branched at the 
ranch with 1 flower. Woopwarp. Stem nearly cy- 
: P 
Common Nipplewoart. Dock Cresses. Hedges, s > 
and on rubbish. A. June, July.* 
CICHO’RIUM. Recept. somewhat chaffy ; calya 
- double: down about 5 teeth, indistinctly 
hairy. 
C. Flowers in pairs, sitting : leaves notched. In’tybus. 
E. bot. 539-Fl, dan. 907-Woodv. 248—Curt. 241-Blackw. 
177—-Walc.—Dod. 635—Lob. obs. 114. 1, and ic. 1. 228. 
2—Ger. em. 284. 1—Park. 776, 2-H. ox. vii. 1. row 2.2 
—Fuchs. 679-F. B. ii. 1008—Trag. 27 Q—Lonic. is 94. 1= 
Ger. 235. 10—Maith. 503. 
Flowers open at 8, and close at 4. Linn. Stem angular. 
eet spear-shaped, embracin the stem, toothed ae 
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.* As acurative for sore breasts (from whence the old English name is 
detived,) it is now entirely in disuse, At Constantinople it is eaten raw, 
JUSt before it comes into flower.  ~ 
