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HE flowers are collected in large, rounded heads, and are contained many in a common cup; 
which is formed of oblong fcales, whofe points turn downwards as fo many hooks. 
Each flower 
has a long, flender tube, and is divided into five fegments at the rim. The feeds are pyramidal, 
and winged with fhort down. 
Linnzus places this with the preceding among the /yzgenefia: but he takes away the received name 
lappa, and calls the genus arétium. 
1. Great Burdock, 
Lappa vulgaris major. 
The root is long and thick, brown on the 
outfide, white within, and hung with a few 
fibres. 
The ftalk is a yard high, ftriated, tough, and 
divided into many branches. 
The leaves are extremely large : they are broad 
at the bafe, fmaller to the point, and of a greyifh 
green colour. 
The flowers are of a faint purple. 
It is common, every where in wafte grounds, | 
and flowers all fummer. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lappa major acrium, Diofco- 
rvidis. Others, Lappa, and Bordana major. 
The root is an’ excellent diuretick and deob- 
ftruent. The beft way of giving it is in a ftrong 
infufion ; and it is thus very ferviceable in ob- 
ftructions of urine, and in the jaundice. It is 
alfo much celebrated in afthmas. The feeds pof- 
fefs the fame virtues. 
2. Smooth-headed Burdock. 
Lappe capitulis maximis glabris. 
The root is long, thick, brown, and full of a 
flimy juice. : 
The ftalk is red toward the bottom, very 
tough, divided into many branches, and five 
feet high. 
The leaves are of a vaft fize, and of a deep 
green. 
The flowers are of a fine red; and the heads 
in which they are contained are very large and 
fmooth. 
It is frequent by way-fides with the other, and 
flowers in Auguft. 
Ray calls it Lappa major “capitulo maximo 
glabro. 
3. Small-headed Burdock. 
Lappa major capitulis minoribus. 
The root is long, thick, and of a pale colour. 
The ftalk is tough, ftriated, and very much 
branched. 
The leaves are large, oblong, and not fo broad 
as in the common; {pecies. 
‘The heads are fmooth, fmall, and very nume- 
rous: they are of a conic figure, and have tufts 
of purple flowers. 
It is common in our fouthern counties, and 
flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Lappa major capitulis parvis 
glabris, 
4. Woolly-headed Burdock. 
Lappa capitulis magnis tomentofis, 
The root is long, thick, and brown. 
The ftalk is very thick, ftriated, purplith, 
and five feet high: it is divided into many 
branches, and thick fet with leaves, 
Thefe are broad, thort, rough 
green, and of an uneven furface, 
The flowers ftand ar the tops in vaft roundith, 
woolly heads, 
The feeds are large and brown, 
It is common in our watte 
flowers in June. 
Ray calls it Lappa major capitulis tomentofis. 
Others, Bardana major capitulis lanuginofis. 
» Of a grey 
grounds, and 
5- Globular-headed Burdock. 
Lappa capitulis minoribus globofis. 
The root is long and large, 
The ftalk is tough, firm, upright, and four 
feet high ; and it is divided into many branches, 
and thick fet with leaves, 
Thefe are very large, broad, rumpled, of a 
dufky green, and clammy. 
The flowers are of a pale red, fometimes white ; 
and they are colleéted into little, globular heads ; 
which are thick fet with a woolly matter. : 
We have it in our northern counties, where it 
flowers in May. 
Ray calls it Lappe major montana capitulis mi- 
noribus rotundioribus et magis tomentofis. 
6. Little Cobweb-headed Burdock. 
Lappa minor capitulis reticulatis. 
The root is very long and brown, 
The ftalk is lightly ribbed, and of a redifh co-' 
lour. 
The leaves are large, and have brown foot- 
ftalks : they are of an uneven furface, and pale 
green, 
The flowers are little and purple; and they 
are colleéted into {mall olive-coloured heads, ele- 
gantly reticulated with a white, woolly matter. 
Petiver calls ic Bordana minor capitulo araneofo. 
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