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Suborder II. LIGULIFLORJE. Fl. all perfect, ligulate. 



Tribe V. Cichoriea. 



Style cylindrical above and, with its long obtuse branches, 

 equally pubescent. Stigmatic lines prominent, narrow, termi- 

 nating below the middle of the branches. 



Section 1. LAPSANE^E. Receptacle naked. Pappus 0. 

 32. LAPSANA Linn. Nipplewort. 



1 . L. communis (L.) ; 1. dentate or lobed stalked, lower 1. lyrate, 

 involucres glabrous angular, st. panicled. E. B. 844. St. and 

 1. hispid or nearly glabrous. St. 1 3 feet high, branched above. 

 Heads small, with yellow florets, in terminal panicles with small 

 subulate bracts at the subdivisions. Involucre of the fruit erect. 

 Waste and cultivated land. A. VII. VIII. 



Section 2, HYOSERIDE^. Receptacle naked. Pappus 

 like a crown, of many entire broad scales. 



33. ARNOSERIS Gaert. 



1. A.pusilla (Gaert.). Lapsana Sm., E.B. 95. St. 3 8 in. 

 high, swelling and hollow upwards, leafless, with a minute bract 

 at the base of each branch. Each branch overtopping its prede- 

 cessor and gradually thickening up to the solitary small terminal 

 head of yellow florets. Inv. connivent over the fr. when its 

 phyll. become remarkably keeled. Receptacle alveolate towards 

 the margins. Fr. small obovate, attenuated below, 5-angled. L. 

 radical, oblong, toothed. Gravelly and sandy fields, rare. A. 

 VI. VIII. E. S. 



34. CICHORIUM Linn. Succory. Chicory. 



1. C. Intybus (L.); lower 1. runcinate hispid on the keel, upper 

 1. oblong or lanceolate clasping entire, heads axillary in pairs 

 nearly sessile. .E. B. 539. St. 6. 15. St. 23 feet high, bristly, 

 alternately branched. Heads many, fl. bright blue handsome. 

 Floral 1. lanceolate from a broad clasping base. Waste places 

 on a gravelly or chalky soil. P. VII. VIII. 



Sections. HYPOCH(ERIDE^E. Receptacle scaly. Pappus 

 feathery. 



35. HYPOCHOERIS Linn. 

 * Pappus with an outer row of bristles. 

 1. H. glabra (L.) ; st. branched leafless glabrous, I. oblong 



