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vation of the young botanist. The following may more 
easily be added to the collection. 
Fepia onrrorta. (Plate IV. Fig. 13.)  Corn-salad, or 
Laml’s Lettuce. Flowers in heads, pale blue or lilac, and 
very small, with narrow bracteas. Seed-vessel nearly glo- 
bular, crowned with the three teeth of the calyx, one being 
larger than the others. Stem about six inches high, much 
divided into forked branches, furrowed. | Lower leaves 
tongue-shaped, stalked, stem-leaves having no stalks, obtuse, 
sometimes a little toothed. It is a small, insignificant plant, 
growing in corn-fields and amongst rubbish. Rather 
common. It was formerly much eaten as a salad, dressed 
in the same manner as our salads at the present day. 
Fepra pentata. Smooth-fruited Corn salad. This spe- 
cies resembles the last in general appearance, but differs in 
many minute respects. Seed-vessel egg-shaped, and crowned 
with the four-toothed calyx. Flowers flesh-coloured in 
loose bunches, and one solitary in each fork of the stem. 
Leaves narrower than the last, those on the upper part of 
the stem more toothed. It is about ten inches high, 
growing in corn-fields, and on hedge-banks, and is less 
common than the F. oltoria. 
