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places, and roadsides. Plant from 2 to 4 feet high, hairy at the 

 base. Leaves thin and hairy ; lower ones ovate, distantly toothed ; 

 upper small, narrow and entire. Flower-heads on slender stalks, 

 in a loose corymb ; flowers small and yellow. Seed not feathered. 

 Common everywhere. (E. B. t. 844.) A. vn. vm. 



CICHORIUM. CHICOEY, SUCCORY. 



C. Intybus (wild Chicory, or S.) In dry waste places, road- 

 sides, and borders of fields. Stem from 2 to 3 feet high, covered 

 with bristly hairs, rising from a long tapering root. Lower leaves 

 long and jagged, spreading on the ground ; upper leaves oblong, 

 clasping the stem, and with smooth edges. Flower-heads in 

 pairs, sessile between the leaves and the stem ; flowers of a pale 

 but bright blue. Seeds smooth and closely packed in the dry in- 

 volucre. Side of the lane leading to Forde bog, near Newton. 

 Teignmouth. Kingskerswell. Lanes about Paignton. (E. B. t. 

 539.) P. vn. Tin. 



TRIBE II. CYNAROCEPHAL-E. ARTICHOKE OR THISTLE TRIBE. 

 ARCTIU1K. BURDOCK. 



A. Lap pa (common B.) By roadsides and in waste places, 

 very frequent. A stout, strong, branching plant, from 3 to 5 feet 

 high ; the lower leaves large and heart-shaped, stalked ; upper 

 leaves much smaller and broadly oval, green and smooth above, 

 but covered with a white cottony down beneath. Flower-heads 

 panicled, the small reddish-purple florets crowning the hairy glo- 

 bular involucres : these last downy and covered with hooked scales 

 which cause them to fasten themselves to one's clothes or the 

 coats of animals. Common everywhere by waysides. (E. B. t. 

 1228.) B. vm. 



SERRATULA. SAWWORT. 



S. tinctoria (common S.) In thickets, open woods, and moist 

 pastures. Plant from 1 to 3 feet high, not much branched ; the 

 lower leaves more or less pinnate, with long lance-shaped, pointed, 

 and finely-toothed segments. Flower-heads in a corymb, crowning 

 the stem ; flowers purple, the male flowers longer than the female. 

 Involucres small. Ilsham, near Torquay. Marychurch. Bovey 

 Heath. (E. B. t. 38.) P. vm. 



