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BRITISH HERBAL. 
8. Great Marfh Tree Sow-Thiftle. 
Sonchis arborefcens folio cnfpidato. 
‘The root is long and white. 
The ftalk is round, upright, eight feet high, 
and of a dead green: toward the top it divides 
into numerous branches. 
The leaves are long, confiderably broad, deeply 
indented, and pointed at the end. 
The flowers are of a gold yellow, numerous, 
and very large. 
Jeis a Bl of our marfhes, and flowers in 
autumn, ‘ 
Merret calls it i) tricubitalis folio cufpi- 
dato. 
g. Sharp prickled Sow-Thiftle. 
Sonchus afper dentatus. 
The root is fibrous. 
The ftalk is round, hollow, purplith, and two 
feet high. 
The leaves are long, and confiderably broad : 
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Blue Mountain Sow-Thiftle. 
Sonchus ceruleo flore. 
The root is long and thick. 
The ftalk is round, hollow, purplifh, and of a 
firm fubftance: it is not much branched. 
The leaves are large, oblong, fharp-pointed, 
deeply and irregularly pinnated,. and finely fer- 
rated along the fegments. 
The flowers are very large, and of a fine fky- 
blue. 
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they are dentated fharply at the edges, and befet 
with ftronger prickles than the others. 
The flowers terminate the branches; and are 
large, and of a gold yellow. 
Ic is found in corn-fields, and flowers in July. 
Petiver calls it Sonchus afper deniatus. Dodo- 
nezus, Sonchus afperior. 
10. Laciniated, fmooth Sow-Thiftle. 
Sonchus levis laciniatus. 
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The root is long, flender, and hung with many 
fibres. 
The ftalks are round, hollow, upright, and 
five feet high. 
The leaves are long and large: they are con- 
fiderably broad; and they are divided~ downto 
the rib in many fegments. 
‘The flowers are large, and of a faint yellow. 
Ic is frequent in the weft of England, and 
flowers in June. 
Petiver calls it Sonchus les laceratus; a name 
others have copied. 
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It is found on the mountains of Italy, and 
flowers in May. 
Petiver calls it Sonchus ceruleus levis. Others, 
Sonchus montanus ceruleo flore. 
All the fow-shifiles poffefs the fame qualities, 
which are very trifling with regard to medicine. 
They are cooling, outwardly applied. Some have 
eaten the young fhoots; but they are not plea- 
{antsinas 
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HAWKWEED. 
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HE flower is compofed of numeroys flofcules, arranged in a fmall head. The common cup 
to thefe is oblong ; and is formed of numerous, irregular {cales, lying clofe on one another, 
Each flofcule is flat, and dented in five places at the end. The ftalks of the plant are firm, and the 
feeds oblong and flender. 
Linneus places this among the fyngexefia, the buttons on the threads coalefcing into a cylinder. 
DiViSTON 1... Bee 
1. Hawkweed with bitten roots. 
Hieracium radice abrupta, 
The root is compofed of numerous, thick 
fibres, joined to a fmall, oblong head, which 
terminates abruptly, and looks as if bitten off. 
The ftalks are numerous, a foot high, branched, 
and of a pale green. 
The leaves are Jong, narrow, and fharply di- 
vided at the edges. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a full yellow. 
It is common in paftures, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Hieracium chondrille folio 
glabro. 
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2. Long-rooted Hawkweed. 
Hieracium longius radicatum. 
The root is very long, moderately thick, and 
of a pale brown, 
tied ial Dp Cs has 
The leaves rife in aclufter from this ; and they 
are oblong, moderately broad, and of a deep 
green: they are obtufe at the ends, and are irre- 
gularly finuated at the edges. 
The ftalks rife among thefe; and are flender, 
tough, branched, a foot and half high, and of a 
pale green: they have rarely any rudiment of a 
leaf upon them. 
The flowers grow at the tops of the branches, 
and are of a fine gold yellow. 
It iscommon in paftures, and flowers in June, 
C. Bauhine calls it Hieracium dentis leonis folio” 
obtufum majus. 
3. Smooth yellow Hawkweed. 
Hieracium luteum glabrum foliis laciniatis. 
The root is compofed af numerous fibres, 
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