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SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA ^QUALIS. 4^1 

 this way It is faid to be much preferable to the 

 common diacodium^ and may given to tender con- 

 flitutions with more fafety. 



PRENANTHES. Gen, pi ^lu 

 RecepL nudum. CaL calyculatus. Pappus fimplex, 



fubrelTilis. Flofculi fimplicl fcric. 

 PRENANTHES flofculis quinis, foliis runcinatls. 

 Sp, pi. II 21. {Ger, em. 293./. 5. Pet. herb, t, 15. 

 /. 5. Oed, Ban. t, 509. opt,) 

 Wall Lettuce, Ivy-leav'd wild Lettuce. Anglis, 

 On fhady rocks, and on the walls of old caftlcs in 



the lowlands, if . VII. 

 The flalk is two or three feet high, and greatly 

 branch'd at the top. The leaves have one or 

 two pair of haft ate reverfrd pinn^^ with a very 

 large triangular one at the end, flightly divided 

 into three acute lobes, which are dented on the 

 edges. They embrace the ftalk at the bafe, and 

 the middle rib on the under fide is acute and 

 ferrated. The uppermoft" leaves are lanceolate. 

 The branches are naked, and form a lax panicle 

 of numerous fmall yellow pendulous flow- 

 ers. The calyx confifls of five fcales, with four 

 fmaller fupplementary ones at the bafe. The 

 flower has only five ligulated florets, which are 

 truncated and have four dents. The feeds are 

 black, flreaked, of an oval-acute figure, and 

 crown'd with a Ample down, which flands on a 

 Oiort pedicle. 



LEONTODON, 



