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Stem 1 foot to 3 feet high, erect, branched. Flowers numerous, large, 

 bright, but, pale blue. Not the Endive or Succory of the gardens, 

 which is Cich. Endivia, supposed to be a native of India. 



** Capitati. 

 13. ARCTIUM. 



1. A. Lappa (common Burdock), leaves cordate petiolate. 

 Ligh/f.p.445. 



a. cal. glabrous. E. B. /. 1228 (Arctium Lappa). 



fi. cal. with a cobweb-like down. E. B. t. 24/8 (Arctium 

 Bardana). 



HAB. Waste places and way-sides, frequent. Fl. July, Aug. <. 



Two to three feet or more high. Radical leaves very large, often 

 slightly toothed. Cal. globose, with spinous, hooked scales, which 

 stick most pertinaciously to clothes and the coats of animals. These 

 scales are sometimes glabrous, and sometimes have a more or less 

 abundant cottony substance interwoven with them ; whence two 

 species have been established by some authors. Floicers purple. 



14. SERRATULA. 



1. S. Imctoria (common Saw-wort), leaves sharply serrated gla- 

 brous pinuatind the terminal lobe the largest, flowers in a 

 small clustered umbel. Lightf. p. 447. E. B. t. 38. 



HAB. Woods and wet pastures, but not common, Lightf. Banks of 

 the Clyde between Daldowie and Bothwell, Hopfc. Sea-shore, near 

 the mouth of the Dee, Galloway, and between the Nunnery and 

 Senwick, in the parish of Borgue, Dr. Walker. Fl. Aug. 11 . 



Two to three feet high, branched, stiff. Flowers purple. Dyes cloth 

 of a yellow colour. 



2. S. alpina (alpine Saw-wort], leaves ovato- lanceolate atte- 

 nuated at the base undivided toothed cottony beneath, invo- 

 lucre hairy, flowers in a clustered umbel. Lightf. p. 448. /. 19. 

 .E. B. t. 599. 



HAB. Sides of the Highland mountains, among rocks j in Breadal- 

 bane, Glen Lyon, Glenorchy, and in Skye ; also near Mofl'at, in 

 Annandale, Light/. Ben Arthur, by Arroquhar, Mr. Borrer and 

 Hook. Mountains in the Isle of Rum ; and in a deep gulley at the 

 foot of White Coom Edge, Annandale, Dr. Walker. Fl. Aug. 7/ . 



Stem 8 12 inches high, erect, simple, woolly. Leaves few upon the 

 stem. Flowers larger than in the last-mentioned species, purple. 



15. CARDUUS. 

 * Leaves decurrent. 



I. C.nuians (Musk-thistle), leaves decurrent spinous, flowers 

 drooping, scales of the involucre lanceolate cottony, outer 

 ones spreading. Lightf. p. 450. E. B. t. 1 1 12. 

 HAB. Waste places near towns, and in dry pastures and rough stony 



soils. Fl. July, Aug. <?. (O, Sm.) 

 Two to three feet high., not much branched, cottony, interruptedly 



