202 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
rennial, somewhat fusiform. Stem 2-4 feet high, angular-striate bear 
pubescent, with numerous and somewhat virgate scabrous branches. Radical leaves 4-8 
or 10 incies long, numerous. Heads axillary on the side of the stem: and brauches, in 
pairs or often solitary. Florets blue white— 
all ligulate and radiating towards the circumference. Pappus of minute chaffy scales, 
oblong, poang! or emarginate, st ts rpg repte 
Fields and meadow: 
Fl. peeing Fr. Septem! 
Obs. This aa is beaming extensively naturalized. Some Euro- 
pean Agriculturists recommend it as a Soania forage plant. ree 
they admit that it gives a bad bt e to the milk of cows which feed upon 
it. In this country, it is generally—and I belive justly pacha as an 
Seeeseonahie weed. mt an neh to be expelled from our pastures. The 
n the continent of Eur rope, as a died tigi 
for | the Coffee berry , bes thse ae delight in the aromatic beve 
not tonal to take much interest in this or any other substitute 2 fot the 
genuine article. 
2 0. Seay via, Willd. var. sati’va, DC. Radical leaves somewhat erect, 
ries, se sinuate-dentate, -— often apes smoothish,—the 
uline ones auriculately dilated at base ; heads sessile int ag; ted 
in res ane fours in the axils of the upper leaves, or solitary on elongat- 
Endive. Garden Suce 
Fr. La Scarole. esi Die Endivie. Span. Endibia. 
Root biennial—or sometimes annual. Stem 2- aren feet high, terete, fistular, so what 
branched, smoothish, or often ent hirsute. Radical leaves 6 ~12 inches sole ainente. 
dentate with t nh the tooth varying e to very small and numerous, sometimes pin- 
natifid wi margin cur tne bay Hove a perm and tapering to the base . Outer sca! met 
the ¢ pid-ciliate. violet-purple, or sometimes white,—the li igules 
first invol Ak tarbi somewhat compressed, angular and Sets 
— of gues chaffy scales ina double series. 
dens: cultivated. Native of India. Fl. July-August. Fr. September. 
Obs. Cultivated for the young radical leaves, a pe are etiolated or 
blanched by the exclusion of light, and used as a salad. 
29. LEON’TODON, L. Fait Danpenion. 
[Greek, leon, a lion, and odeus, a tooth ; from the toothed leaves.} 
Heads many-flowered. pepe ete pei jostes but with several 
se ge at the oe es ndlssaped e, all an ie 
pus of plumose brist enlarged tows 
"ae praient t-leaves, the 
— perennial her bs, with t feta - ject 
capes bearing one or more yello ee 
1 L. summits L. Leaves more or less pinnatifid; seape branched ; 
uncles thickened at er summit and furnished with small scaly 
pa ry; single row of equal bristles. June to 
Noy. ‘dlawkbit. Fall Denice me 
Obs. This introduced plant is especially abundant in New England, 
Semen, atic 
