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SOW-THIST LE, 
Der Owen G Hii Ui 4s: 
“THE flower is compofed of numerous, flat flofcules, ranged together in a large comn 
This is rounded, and formed of very numerous and very flender {cales, 
non cup, 
Each of the flof-- 
cules is narrow, and indented in four parts at the top. The feeds are oblong, and the ftalks thick; 
but flight and hollow. 
DIVISION Tf, 
1. Common finooth Sow-Thiftle. 
Sonchus levis. vulgaris. 
The root is compofed of numérous, whitith 
fibres; 4. < : ; 
The ftalk is thick, upright, round, hollow, 
and of a dead green. it seaeth 
The leaves are very large, oblong, deeply fi- 
nuated at the edges, and terminated by a large, 
broad point. 
The Sowers ftand in great numbers on the tops 
of the branches; and are large, and of a fine 
pale yellow. ; 
It is common every where in ground that has 
been dug, and flowers in June. 
C. Bawhine calls it Sonchus Levis laciniatus lati- 
folius. \ Others only, Sonchus Levis. 
2, Broad -leaved fmooth Sow-Thiftle. 
Sonchus levis folio latiore: 
The root is fibrous and white. 
The ftalk is round, upright, of a deep green, 
and a yard high. ; 
The leaves are broad and fhort ; and are divi- 
ded at the edges by a few flight fegments. 
The flowers are large, and of a pale yellow. 
It is common in corn-fields, and flowers ir 
June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Souchus Levis*minar pauciori- 
bus laciniis. : 
3. Common prickly Sow-Thiftle. 
Sonchus foliis [pinofis vulgaris. 
The root is long and flender, and has many 
fibres. 
The ftalk is very thick, and of a fine deep 
pieen, round, a yard high, and branched. 
The leaves are long, and confiderably broad, 
ferrated, and prickly at the edges, and of a fine 
deep green. 
The flowers are large; and of a gold yellow. 
It is common on ditch-banks; and flowers ih | 
Auguft. ‘ : 
C. Bauhine calls it Sonchus afper non laciniatus. 
Others, Sonchus afper vulgaris. 
4. Jagged prickly Sow-Thiftle. 
Sonchus afper folits laciniatis. 
The root is long, and hung with many fibres. 
The ftalk is round; thick, branched, and four 
feet high. 
The leaves are very large, and of a faint green, 
deeply divided at the edges, and very prickly, 
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Linnzus places this among the yagenefa. 
er. 
BRITISH SPECIES, 
.The flowers are fmaller than in the laft, and 
of a faint yellow. ‘ 
Tt is common on wafté ground; and flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sonchus afper laciniatus; a 
name moft. of the fucceeding writers have co- 
pied. 
5+ Oval-leaved Sow-Thiftle. 
Sonchus Soliis ovatis. 
The root is a tuft of white fibres. 
“The ftalk is flender, upright, fcarce at all 
branched, and a foot and half high. 
The leaves are of a very elegant form and co- 
Jour: they are of a glofly green, fmall at the bafe, 
where they furround the ftalk, and oval toward 
the end ; and they are lightly fet ac the edges with 
tender thorns. } 
The flowers are few, large, and of a fine gold 
yellow. A 
It is found on fandy banks, flowering in June, 
Petiver calls it Sonchus rotunda folio. Plukenet; 
Sonchus fubrotundo folio noftras, 
6. Naked-ftalked Sow-Thiftle, 
Sonchus catle nudo. 
The root is long, flender; and hung with many 
fibres. F 
The leaves that rife from it are very numerous, 
long, narrow, fharp-pvinted, and belet with ten: 
der thoris at the edge, 
The ftalk is a foot and a half high ; and often 
it has no leavés on it, rarely more than one or 
two: thefe are of the fame form with thof from 
the root. 
The flowers are large, and of a deep yellow. 
It is found among torn, and Aower$ in July: 
7. Tree Sow-Thiftle; 
Souchus arborefcens. 
The root is long and thick. : 
The ftalk is upright, round, of a yellowith 
green, not much branched, and befet with coarfe 
yellow hairs. 
The leaves are long, of a deép green, and di- 
vided irregularly at the edges. 
The flowers fland ac the tops of the branches 5 
and are very large, and of a deep orange yellow ; 
they ftand in dark green cups, covered with coarfe 
yellow hairs. : 2 
It is common in cotn-fields and dry pattures, 
flowering in Auguft, 
C, Bauhine calls it Hierachinm majus folio fon- 
chi, Others; Sonchus arbore/cens vulgaris. 
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