428 SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA ^EQUALIS. 



ferratures. The figure of thofe leaves is various. 

 Sometimes they are intire, or only indented on 

 the edges. Sometimes they have one pair of fa- 

 gittate or cordate pinuis at the bafe. At other 

 times they are pinnated half-way down to the rib, 

 with triangular reverfed pinn^, the extreme 

 one being Jargefl, and all of them edged with 

 foft fpinul^. The peduncles and calyces arc 

 covered with yellow grofs hairs. The flowers are 

 large and yellow, and turn always towards the 

 fun. The feeds are crown'd with a foft, fimple, 

 feflile down. 



ekraceus 2. SONCHUS pedunculis tomentofis, calycibus gla- 

 bris. Sp, pL 11 16. (Ger. em. 292./. 3^4. Pet. 

 /. 14./. 8, 9, 10. Moris, hiji.f, 7. /. 3./. 1^2. 

 Blackwell t, 130. opt^ 

 Common Sow-Thiftle. Anglis, 



In wafle places and cultivated grounds frequent. 

 O. VI-VIII. 



The ftalk is fucculent, fiftular, and a cubit high or 

 more. The leaves are tender, of a very variable 

 figure, being fometimes intire, and fometimes 

 jagged or pinnated half way down to the rib ; 

 their edges furrounded with foft prickly ferra- 

 tures. At their bafe they embrace the ftalk, and 

 are preffed clofe to it. The upper leaves are 

 always of an oval-lanceolate figure, and intire ; 

 but ferrulated on the edges. The ftalk is branch- 

 ed towards the top, and forms a kind of umbel 



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