PLex.cal. 39. COMPOSITE, A. 176. Lapsana. 4.ir> 



Root branched ; stem rather bald ; root-leaves lyratc ; 

 stem-leaves ovate ; floral-leaf linear, lanceolate, 1 at the; 

 base of" each peduncle. — Eaten at Constantinople just before 

 flowering as a salad ; and used in Prussia to cure ulcerated 

 breasts. 



II. 177. ARNOSERIS. Gsertner. SwiJie's-succory. 



BradecB very few, small ; pericline becoming torulose 

 and connivent into a globe; scales many, equal, single- 

 rowed, acutely keeled; clinanthus bald, flat, with hollow 

 dots ; akenium angular, furrowed ; pappus marginal, 

 leathery, 5-sided, not tbothed. — Leaves radical ; scape 

 thickened above. 



Arnoseris pusilla. Dwarf swine^s-succory. 



Scape 1 to 3-flowered; leaves ovate, oblong, denticulate; 

 peduncles fistulous, clubshape, thickened above. 



Hieracium minimum Clusii, Hyoseris Tabermontani et Gerardi, Raii 

 Syn. 173,1} Park. 191. 



Hyoseris mascula, Ger. em. 288, 8. 

 Hyoseris minima, Lin. S. P. 1138. 

 Arnoseris pusilla, Geertner Sem. et Fr. 2, 355. 



Sandy fields ; annual ; June. 



Root fusiform; leaves toothed; stem upright, bald, very 

 thin at bottom, thicker above ; corolla yellow. 



III. 178. CHONDRILLA. Dioscorides. Gum-succory. 

 BractecB few, short ; pericline cylindrical ; scales 8 or 

 10, membranaceous at the edge, equal ; clinanlhus bald, 

 hollowed, dotted ; flowers 5 or 6, in one row ; akenium 

 ovate, compressed, streaked, rather rough ; pappus stipitate, 

 very soft, snow-white, fugacious. — Leaves radical and cau- 

 line ; flowers diversely panicled, yellow, 



Chondrilla muralis. Wall gum-succory. 



Leaves lyrate, pinnatifid, toothed, terminal lobe 5-angu- 

 lar ; pappus stipitate ; stipes shcM-ter than the akenium ; 

 clinanthus diversely panicled. 



Lactuca sylvestris murorum flore luteo. Rail Syn. 162, 5. 

 Sonchus laevis muralis, Ger. em. 293, 5. 

 Sonchus laevis alter parvis floribus, Psrfc. 805. 

 Prcnanthes muralis, Lin. S. P. 1121. 

 Chondrilla muralis, Lamarck. Fl. Fr. 

 Ivy-leaved sow-thistle. Wall sow-thistle. 



Walls and close woods ; perennial ; Jul}'. 



