210 COMPOSITE. [AKXOSKRIS. 



3O. ARNOSE'RIS, Gcertn. LAMB'S or Su INK'S SrccORY. 

 A small, annual, scapigerous herb ; juice milky. Leaves all radical. 

 Heads few, small, yellow; peduncles clavate, fistular ; invol. bracts in 1 

 series, many, after flowering arching over the fruit ; receptacle flat, naked, 

 pitted. Corollas all ligulate ; anther-cells not tailed ; upper part of style 

 and its short obtuse arms pilose. Fruit obpyramidal, furrowed and ribbed, 

 not beaked, crowned by a coriaceous angular ring.- DISTRIB. Europe to 

 Mid. Russia. ETYM. apvos, a lamb, and fftpts, succory. 



1. A. pusil'la, Gcertn. ; leaves obovate-spathulate or -lanceolate toothed. 

 Dry pastures and fields, from Banff and Elgin southwards ; rare in Scotland 

 and the E. and S. counties of England ; not found in Ireland ; a colonist, 

 Watson; fl. June-July. Glabrous or slightly hairy. Leaves 2-4 in., narrow. 

 Scapes 4-12 in., many, slender, rigid, sparingly branched above. Heads cam- 

 panulate, iin., inclined in bud ; invol. bracts herbaceous, puberulous, line ir- 

 lanceolate, tips contracted obtuse. Fruit pale brown, rugose between the ribs. 



31. CICHOR'IUM, L. CHICORY. 



Perennial herbs, with spreading branches and milky juice. Leaves radi- 

 cal and alternate, toothed or piunatifid. Heads axillary, solitary or 

 crowded, sessile or stalked, blue or yellow ; involucre cylindric ; bracts 

 in 2 series, inner erect, connate at the base, outer shorter appressed ; re- 

 ceptacle ttattish, naked, pitted or bristly. Corollas all lignlate ; anther- 

 cells not tailed ; upper part of style and its slender arms pilose. Fruit* 

 crowded on the indurated receptacle, firmly embraced by the rigid invol. 

 bracts, smooth, obovoid or turbinate, not beaked ; pappus in 2 series of 

 short obtuse scales. -DISTRIB. Europe, W. Asia; species 5. KTVM. An 

 old Greek name. 



1. C. In tybus, L. : lower leaves runcinate, heads usually in paire. 



itive, in Scotland 

 tapering. >'/ 

 reading. L cm 

 pper ovate-cordate, amplexicaul. 



Waste places, roadsides, &c. throughout England ; rare, if native, 

 and Ireland ; fl. July-Oct. Rather hispid. Root fleshy, 



1-3 ft., angled and grooved; branches straight, rigid, spreading. /,"<<.< 

 glandular-ciliate, oblong-lanceolate, upper ovate-cordate, amplexicaul. 

 Heads many, 1-1 in. diarn. ; peduncle thickened in the middle; invol. 

 bracts herbaceous, outer linear-lanceolate, glandular-ciliate. Floiren bright 

 blue, rarely white ; ligule rather broad, truncate, 5-toothed. Fruit angled, 

 pale, mottled. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Africa, Siberia, N.W. India ; introd. 

 in N. Amorica. The origin of the cultivated Chicory ; the roots are boiled 

 and eaten, or dried and used as Coffee. 



32. HYPOCH-ffi'RIS, L. CAT'S-EAR. 

 Annual or perennial scapigerous herbs with milky juice. Leaves radical, 



C' lattfid. Heads on simple or dichotomously branched scapes ; invol. 

 ts in many series, imbricate ; receptacle flat, with narrow membranous 

 bracteoles. Corollas all ligulate ; anther-cells shortly tailed ; upper part 

 of style and its short obtuse arms hairy. Fruits striate, scabrous, beak of 

 tha outer very short, of the inner long, slender ; pappus of one row of 

 feathery hairs with usually an outer row of short, stiff bristles. DISTRIB. 

 Europe, W. Asia ; species 6. ETYM. doubtful. 



