628 BENGAL PLANTS. [Lactuca. 
slender, simple, usually soft and white, very variable, persistent or 
separately deciduous, sometimes with a minute outer ring. 
Stout, succulent, radical leaves many, compact ; stem very leafy; achenes 
black sativa. 
Slender, radical leaves long, membranous, flaccid ; stem-leaves few; 
achenes red-brown polycephala. 
1121. Lactuca SATIVA | Linn. ; ; F. I. iii. 4038. LZ. Scarvola var. 
sativa F. B Sed. Bi Bk 
Cultivated i in the cold weather in gardens : 
A more or less cabbage-like herb. Vorwie Kaht, salad. 
The Garden Lettuce. 
1122. Lacruca potycePHana Benth. ; F. B. I. iii. 410. 
- Bengal. 
A indies flaccid annual weed, with subumbellate 
inflorescence. 
501. Picridium Desf. 
rennial or annual, glabrous milky herbs; leaves radical or 
antarats toothed or pinnatifid; lobes often crisped, toothed or 
pinulose. Flower-heads long-peduncled, peduncle often hollow, 
yellow, homogamous, ligulate; involucre campanulate; bracts 
receptacle flat, naked. Calyz-limb annular, setose. Petals con- 
nate in ligulate corollas, with truncate, 5-toothed lamina. Stamens 
syngenesious; anthers with sagittate base; auricles vase 
acuminate. Style with slender arms. Cypsela oblong, trun 
at both ends, constricted at the tip; ribs 4-5, thick, sored 
rugose; pappus-hairs many-seriate, soft, slender, simple, white, 
connate at the base in a deciduous rin 
1123. Picriprum trxerranum Desf. ; F. B. I. iii. 
Very occasionally in gesdals in the anal parts, 48 
an annual only, 
A glabrous milky herb. 
502, Sonchus Linn. 
Annual or perennial milky herbs; leaves radical or alternate, 
cauline often stem-clasping, entire or toothed or pinnatifid; seg- 
ments often spinulose-toothed. Flower-heads aneheal irregu- 
larly subcorymbose, umbellate or panicled, yellow, homogamous, — 
