122 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



laries seldom spinous. Pericline* commonly cylindrical or oblonf- 

 ovoid. 



Tribe I.— HYOSERIDE^. 



Pappus crown-like or of scales or awns, sometimes wholly 

 absent. 



GENUS XXVIII.— C ICHORIUM. Zinn. 



Antliodes few- or many-flowered. Pericline cylindrical ; phyl- 

 laries in 2 series, the inner row of 8 or 10 phyllaries at length 

 indurated and united at the base, the outer row of 5 short lax 

 ones. Clinanth pitted and fibrillous. Achenes irregularly pris- 

 matic, attenuated at the base, truncate at the apex. Pappus of 

 1 or 2 rows of fimbriated scales. 



Herbs, with runcinate-pinnatifid or entire radical leaves ; and 

 branched stems with sessile axillary, and stalked terminal antliodes. 

 Florets pale bright-blue. Achenes persistent. 



The origin of tbe name of this genus of plants is an Arabic word, chikouryeh. 

 By the Greeks it was sometimes written Ki^wptov (kichorion) ; whence, amoug the 

 simple fare of Horace, 



" Me pascunt olivaB, 

 Me cichorea levesque malvas." 



SPECIES!.— CICHORIUM INTYBUS. Linn. 

 Plate DCCLXXXVI. 

 Jieich. Ic. El. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCLVII. Fig. 2. 



Stem erect, paniculately branched ; branches virgate, spreading- 

 ascending, not spinous. Lowest leaves oblanceolate, runcinate-pin- 

 natifid or dentate ; upper stem-leaves lanceolate, semi-amplexicaul, 

 rcpand-denticulate or entire, all glandular, ciliated. Antliodes 

 many-flowered, sessUe and axUlary in pairs or threes, and solitary 

 at the extremity of the peduncles, which are scarcely thickened 

 upwards. Exterior phyllaries broadly lanceolate, shorter than the 

 interioi*, ciliated with gland-tipped hairs. Achenes surmounted by 

 a circle of numerous short obtuse scales fimbriated at the summit. 



By roadsides, on borders of fields, banks, and waste places. 

 Generally distributed in England, and common in chalky districts; 



* The shape of the pericline described is that which it has previous to the expan- 

 sion of the florets ; when that has taken place, it assumes a more or less bell-sbaped 

 foru), and in fruit usually becomes somewhat conical. 



