378 SYNGENESIA— POLYGAM.-^QU. Cichorium. 



H. minimum. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 143./. Pann. 647./. 649. 

 Intybus, sive Endivia lutea minima, &c, Moris, v. 3. 53. sect. 7. 



M./.8. 

 Small Swine's Succory. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 15./. 9. 



In gravelly fields. 



About Hampton Court. Doody. At Walthamstow. Sir W. Watson, 

 and Mr. E. Forster. Dorsetshire. Dr. Pulteney. Bedfordshire. 

 Rev. Dr. Abbot. Near Arminghall wood, 3 miles south of Nor- 

 wich. 



Annual. June. 



Root small, tapering. Leaves all radical, depressed, obovate-ob- 

 long, strongly toothed, scarcely hairy, but rough at the edges. 

 Stalks several, more or less branched and swelling above ; slen- 

 der and purplish below ; round, smooth, terminating in a few 

 hollow, tumid partial-stalks, each bearing a small, bright, yet 

 not full yellow,^0M;er. Cal. smooth ; its scales all linear, point- 

 ed ; the inner ones finally channelled and hardened. Seeds an- 

 gular, smooth, each crowned with an elevated border, as ex- 

 pressed in Engl. Bot. and well magnified by Gsertner, though 

 less obvious in Dr. Hooker's otherwise excellent plate. The re. 

 ceptacle is smooth, slightly cellular. 



Dr. Hooker justly adverts to an erroneous passage in Engl. Bot., 

 " seeds crowned with an elevated rim, more rarely with short 

 simple down." The first part of this sentence is correct; the 

 latter originated in the generic character given by LinnEeus, ap- 

 plied by him to the present plant, in consequence of a mistaken 

 specimen in his herbarium, whose origin I cannot trace, but 

 which he marked minima, affixing it to an authentic one. The 

 description in Fl. Brit, is nevertheless accurate. 



381. CICHORIUM. Succory. 



Linn.Gfn.406. Juss.171. Fl. Br. 843. Tourn.t.272. Lam. 

 t.65S. G(srtn.t.l57. 



Common Cal. double, cylindrical ; outermost of a few ob- 

 long, rather lax, shortish scales ; inner of 8 or more, 

 longer, converging, linear, equal ones, permanent, at 

 length recurved. Cor. compound, of about 20 spread- 

 ing, somewhat imbricated, ligulate, abrupt, deeply .5- 

 toothed, perfect Jlorets. Filam. capillary, very short. 

 Anth. in a pentagonal tube. Gei'm. obovate. Style thread- 

 shaped, equal with the stamens. Stigmas revolute. Seed- 

 vessel none, except the converging calyx. Seed obscurely 

 5-sided, abrupt. Down of several chaffy upright bristles, 

 shorter than the seed. Recept. slightly chaffy, beset with 

 a few upright slender scales, shorter than the seed. 



Milky, bitter, perennial or biennial, upright, leafy herbs, 



