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COMPOSITE 



obovate, toothed ; heads terminating the branches, ^ in. across, — 

 Dry places ; rare. — Fl. June — August. Annual. 



37. Lapsana (Nipplewort). — Slender, erect, branched plants 

 with milky juice; scattered leaves; and small heads of 8 — 12 

 yellow florets^ with i row of erect bracts. (Name, an old Latin 

 name.) 



I. L. communis (Common Nipplewort). — The only British 



picRis HiERACioiDES {Hawk-wecd Picris). 



species ; a branched, leafy plant, 2 — 3 feet high ; radical leaves 

 broadly lyrately-pinnatifid, stalked ; cauline leaves small, dentate ; 

 heads numerous, \ in. across ; bracts linear, stiff, keeled. — Waste 

 places and hedgerows ; abundant. — Fl. July, August. Annual. 



38. Picris. — Hispid, branched plants with a milky juice ; 

 leaves mostly scattered, simple, toothed ; heads of yellow ligulate 

 -florets, with bracts in 2 rows'; fruit brown, curved, transversely 

 wrinkled ; pappus of 2 or more rows of feathery hairs. (Name 

 from the Greek picros, bitter.) 



I. P.hieracioides (Hawkweed Picris). — A slender, erect plant, 



