442 SYN'GENESIA : POLYGAMIA iEQUALIS. 

 mimma i. HYOSERIS caiile divifo nudo, pedunculis incraf- 

 fatis. Sp. fi. I 13S. (Ger. em. 218. /. 8. Pel. herb. 

 t. 15./. 9. Moris, hiji.f. 7. /. 1./. 8. Oeder. Ban. 

 t. 201. opt.) 



Small Swine's Succory. Jnglis. 



In corn fields in a gravelly or fandy foil, bin rare. 

 Sibbald. O.VI. 



The whole plant is fmooth, ereft, and about fix or 

 eiMit inches hioh : the radical leaves are nume- 

 rous, oval, acutely dented, and fpread upon the 

 ground round the root : the ftalks arc red, and 

 Vvlry at the bafe, but green, fiftular, and tumid 

 by degrees to the top : they are deftitute of 

 leaves and generally divided towards the top, 

 bearing each two or three yellow flowers : the in^ 

 terior fcales of the calyx are equal and acute ; the 

 exterior fupplementary ones are flender, dry, and 

 form only one row or circle fthe florets are trun- 

 cated, and have commonly five dents : the feeds 

 are fliort and ftriated, nearly oval, and crown'd 

 with a very fhort margin. 



HYFOCH.ERIS. Gen. pi. 918. 

 precept, paleaceum. Cal. fubimbricatus. Pappus 



plumofus. 

 HYPOCH^^RIS glabra, calyclbus oblongis imbri- 

 ^ ^^ ^' catis, caule ramofo nudo, foliis dentato-finuatis. 



:p. pi. 1 1 40. {Oed. Dan. t. 42/^. opt. Moris, hiji. 

 /. I't. A-f- 35-) 

 Smooth Ilav/ivv.eed. Jnglis. 



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