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BRITISH HERBAL. 
SB IINIRIMIST IIR IID I I Toe eee 
CLASS XXVI. 
| Plants whofe flower is compofed of numerous flofcules, or fmaller diftin& 
flowers; which are flat not tubular, to the end; and are arranged toge- 
ther in a fealy cup; the whole naturally full or double; the entire nus 
ber of flofcules forming each general flower being uniform, and regularly 
difpofed ; and whofe leaves and fralks yield, on being broken, a white 
milky juice. 
be regularly conneéted with one another, and evidently divided from thofe of all-the o-her 
claffes: but the prefent mode of fcience, banifhing the ufe of obvious characters, and efta- 
blifhing its diftin€tions only on the difpofition and number of the minuter parts, confounds thefe 
plants with the capitate or thiftle kind defcribed before ; and with the corymbiferous, as well as fimply 
difcoide, to be defcribed hereafter under one general term, the /yngencfia. 
Thus arranged together, they confticute the clafs diftinguifhed by that term in the Linnean fyftem, 
and are with the thiftles ranked alfo with the violet and balfam. 
Te firft glance, even of an unexperienced eye, fees thefe plants, numerous as they are, to 
PRCT Por Pore OT eT: Toro L ror gona OrOnO POO ROLL aon eek ok oo Loe ko Soko oe 
Sie ada ematical Oe Bre ks 
Natives of BRITAIN. 
Thofe of which one or more fpecies are found naturally wild in this country. 
Gabe NE Us 
LETTUCE. 
Ey AGG, T UEC aA. 
HE flower is compofed of numerous, flat, or Jigulated flofcules, notched at the extremity, and 
Al arranged together in a fealy cup, of an oval or oblong figure, formed of numerous, foft, and 
tharp pointed fcales. ‘The feeds are winged with down, and the ftalks of the plant are tolerably firm 
and folid. ’ 
Linnzeus places this among the /yngenefia ; the filaments, as in the others, having buttons, which . 
unite into a cylinder. 
Dee Varli~ 
