PL ex. cat 39. COMPOSlTiE, B. 195. Arctium. ^35 



Stem red ; leaves not cut ; pericline large, brownish pur- 

 ple j corollce purple. 



$. minus. Pericline small, roundish, brown. 



2. Arctium major. Great burdock. 



Pericline, when full grown, bald. 



Lappa major, Arcliiini Dioscoridis, Eaii Syn. 197,2. 



Bardana major, Ger. eni. 809, 1. 



Lardana vulgaris major, Park. 1222. 



Arctium Bardana, Lin. S. P. 1143. 



Arctium Lappa, Lamarck 111. Gen. 667. 



Lappa major, X>e Cand. Ft. Gall. 3010. 



Great burr. Burr dock. Clot burr. 



Ruins ; biennial ; July and August. 

 Leaves toothed; calathides solitary; pericline large.'— 

 Shoots eaten as asparagus, but very inferior. 



^. minus. Calathides in heads ; pericline small. 



Lappa minor, J5e Cand. Fl. Gall. 3011. 



XXI. 196. SERRATULA. Pliny. Sawwort. 



Pericline ovate, bellied ; scales imbricate, ovate and lan- 

 ceolate, pointed, not spinous ; flowers female, or male and 

 hermaphrodite; cLinanthus flat, chaffy; chaffs bristlelike; 

 stigma of the female flowers very large, wavy ; akenium 

 streaked; pappus hairlike, rough, persistent, in many se- 

 ries, longer than the akenium, rays unequal. — Plant po- 

 lygamous, dioicous ; root perennial ; juice yellow ; leaves 

 serrated, not spinous; calathides corymbose; corollce purple. 



Serratida iinctoria. Dyeing sawwort. 



Leaves acutely serrated, bald at the base, mostly pinna-* 

 tifid, rarely not cut ; corymhus even-topped* 



Serratula, Raii Syn. 196, 1. 



Serratula purpurea, sive alba, Ger. em. 713, 



Serratula vulgaris flore purpureo, Park. 474. 



Serratula tinctoria, Lin. S, P. 1153. 



Carduus tinctorius, Stokes Bat. Mat. Med. 4, 142. 



Woods and hedges; perennial^ July and August. 



Root thi'eady; stem upright, slender; leaves \yrate ; pe- 

 ricline-scales rather woolly; corollce ipurple.— Plant dyes 

 yellow. 



|S. alba. Flowers white. 



y. lancijolia. Leaves lanceolate, serrated, 

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