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horizontally expanded. The whole plant is re* 

 plete with a milky juice. 



If the weather be fair the flowers of this plant 

 open at the rifing of the fun, and clofe again be- 

 tween nine and ten o'clock in the morning. 

 They ripen their feeds in three weeks from the 

 firft expanfion. 



The roots are efculenr, being boil'd and ferv'd up 

 to table in the manner of afpsragus. The fpring 

 fhoots are alfo eaten by fome in the fame manner. 

 But that which is cultivated in gardens for culi- 

 nary purpofes is generally another fpecies, the 

 Tragopogon jwrrifolium Lin. commonly called 

 by the gardeners Salfafy. 



SONCHUS. Gen.pl 908. 

 Recept. nudum. Cal. imbricatus, ventricofus. Tap- 

 pus pilofus. 

 ^is I. SONCHUS pedunculis calycibufque hifpidis fub- 

 umbellatis, foliis runcinatis bafi cordatis, Sp. pL 

 1116. (Ger. em. 295./. 8. Pet. herh, t. 14./. 6, 

 Moris, hiji. f. 7. /. 6./. 12.) 

 Corn Sow-Thiftle. Anglis. 

 In corn fields frequent. "U. VIII. 

 The root creeps under ground, and propagates 



apace. 

 The ftalk Is three or four feet high, and branched at 

 the top. The leaves are firm and ftifi^ embracing 

 the ftalk at the bafe j the middle rib on the un- 

 der fide foliaceous, and armed with foft prickly 



ferratures. 



