CLASS XIX. ORDER 1.] ARNOSERIS. 1045 
lucre scales angular in fruit ; stem paniculated above ; leaves toothed, 
ovate, or sub-cordate, the lower ones lyrate. 
English Botany, t. 844.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 378.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 295.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 157. 
Root fibrous. Siem erect, round, striated, leafy, smooth, or some- 
what downy, from one to three feet high, branched above, slender. 
Leaves thin, dark green, very pliant, smooth, or somewhat downy, 
toothed, and somewhat angular, petiolated, the lower ones lyrate, the 
upper ovate, acute, or lanceolate. Inflorescence paniculated, its 
branches slender. Bracteas small. Jnvolucre smooth, the outer 
scales small, scattered, the inner ones linear lanceolate, erect, all be- 
coming somewhat angular in fruit, from the enlargement of the mid- 
rib. Flowers small, bright yellow. florets linear, obtuse, scarcely 
toothed at the end. fruit linear, pale brown, ribbed, and striated. 
Pappus wanting. 
Habitat.—Waste and cultivated grounds ; common. 
Annual; flowering in June and July. 
Formerly this plant was used, and it is said with advantage, in the 
cure of sore nipples and breasts, hence its English name of Nipple 
wort ; but it is now quite out of use. 
GENUS XY. ARNO'SERIS.—Ga@rrn. Swine's Succory. 
Nat. Ord. Comerosi’rm. Juss. 
Gen. Cuar. Jnvolucrum of numerous linear lanceolate scales, and 
small scattered ones at the base, converging into a globose head 
when in fruit. Receptacle naked. Fruit obovate, pentagonal, 
furrowed, deciduous. Pappus none. 
1. A. pusilla, Gerin. (Fig. 1282.) Swine's Succory. Scape 
branched ; peduncles swollen, and fistulous upwards; leaves all 
radical, obovate, oblong, toothed. 
De Cand. Prod. 7. p. 79.—Hyoseris minima, Linn.—English 
Botany, t. 95.—Lapsana pusilla, Willd.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 
378.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 296.—Lindley, Synopsis, 
p. 157. 
Root tapering, and branched. Leaves all radical, ovate oblong 
tapering into a footstalk, roughish, with short hairs, strongly toothed. 
Scapes several, simple, and single flowered, or branched upwards, 
from four to six inches high, somewhat hairy, pink below, green 
above, and swollen into a club-shaped form, hollow. Involucre 
smooth, its scale linear lanceolate, all converging into a globose head 
when in fruit. Flowers small, bright, pale yellow. lorets small, 
linear, obtuse, finely toothed. uit angular, smooth, crowned with 
an elevated border. Pappus wanting. 
Habitat.—Corn fields in a gravelly or sandy soil. 
Annual ; flowering in June, 
