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COMPOSURE. 



lum lanatum. 



mottled with brown, outer ones 

 transversely wrinkled, inner 

 ones smooth, at least at base, 

 shorter than the longest of the 

 pappus scales ; flowers yellow. 



Roadsides and waste places ; 

 eaten by stock when young. — 

 Nov. - Dec. — Mediterranean re- 

 gion. 



23. CiCHOEIUM, L. 



Involucre oblong, the bracts in 

 2 unequal rows, inner ones 8, 

 outer ones 5, and much shorter ; 

 flowers all ligulate : style- 

 branches long, acute ; akenes 

 subquadrangular, truncate and 

 crowned by short scales ; recep- 

 tacle bristly towards the centre. 

 1. Cichorium Intybus, 

 L. Chicorij. Stiff, somewhat 

 hairy, erect perennial, with 

 divergent, striate branches and Kentrophyl 

 long taproot ; radical leaves 

 runcinate-pinnatifid, stem-leaves lanceolate, clasping, often 



with pointed auricles, reduced to 

 bracts beneath the flower-heads, 

 which are terminal or axillary, 

 se.ssile, 1-3 ; akenes with pappus 

 of very short, blunt scales; 

 fioAvers large, blue. 



Roadsides, Glenelg Railway, 

 banks of Torrens. — Nov. -May. — 

 Europe ; Asia. 



24. Hedypnois, Schreber. 



Involucral bracts almost in 1 

 row, with a row of small outer 

 bracts at base ; flowers all ligu- 

 late ; akenes cylindrical, ribbed, 

 the outer ones incurved, with a 

 short crownshaped, denticulate 

 pappus, inner ones with a 

 double pappus, consisting of an 

 outer row of very short scales 

 and an inner row of long, lanceo- 

 late-acuminate bristles ; recep- 

 tacle naked. 



1. Hedypnois polymorpha, DC. (including H. 

 crctica, Willd.). Procumbent or erect annual, branching 

 dichotomously from near the base; leaves rough-hairy, vari- 

 able, lower ones lyrate-pinnatifid to oblong-lanceolate, 

 sinuate-toothed or entire, narrowed at base, stem-leaves half- 



Cichorium Intybus. 



