428 SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA ^QUALIS. 



ferratures. The figure of thofe leaves is various. 

 Sometimes they are intire, or only indented on 

 the edges. Sometimes they have one pair of fa- 

 gittate or cordate pinncs at the bafe. At other 

 times they are pinnated half-way down to the rib, 

 with triangular reverfed pinn^, the extreme 

 one being largeft, and all of them edged with 

 foft fpinulce. The peduncles and calyces are 

 covered with yellow grofs hairs. The flowers are 

 large and yellow, and turn always towards the 

 fun. The feeds are crown'd with a foft, fimple, 

 fefTile down. 



SONCHUS pedunculis tomentofis, calycibus gla- 



bris. Sp. pi. in 6. {Ger. em. 292./. 3^4. Pet. 



t. 14./. (^ 9, 10. Moris, hifi.f. 7. /. 3./. 1^2. 



Blackwell /. 130. opt.) 

 Common Sow-Thiftle. Anglis. 

 In wafte places and cultivated grounds frequent. 



G. VI-VIII. 



The ftalk is fucculent, fiftular, and a cubit high or 

 more. The leaves are tender, of a very variable 

 figure, being fometimes intire, and fpmetimes 

 jagged or pinnated half way down to the rib; 

 their edges furrounded with foft prickly ferra- 

 tures. At their bafe they embrace the ftalk, and 

 are prefied clofe to it. The upper leaves are 

 always of an oval-lanceolate figure, and intire ; 

 but ferrulated en the edges. The ftalk is branch- 

 ed tov/ards the top, and forms a kind of umbel 



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