444 SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA ^dUALIS. 



tinder the flowers : the interior fcales of the calyx 

 and thofe of the bafe are fmooth, the others have 

 their carina near the apex ciliated with white 

 hairs : the flowers are yellow, and above an inch 

 in diameter, the marginal florets reddifh or livid 

 underneath ; the feeds are narrow, elliptical, red- 

 difh and flreak'd, the flreaks above the middle 

 part denticulated : the down confifts of about 30 

 pulmofe rays (landing on a pedicle as long as the 

 rays, but fliorter than the paiea^ or thofe chafly 

 fubftances which are placed amongft the florets 

 upon the receptacle. 



The plant yields a bitter milky juice, fmeliing like 

 opium. 



The flowers clofe up at three o'clock in the after- 

 noon. 



LAPSANA. Gen, pi. 919. 

 Recept. nudum. Calyx calyculatus, fquamls fingulis 

 interioribus caniculatis. Pappus nullus. 

 communis i LAPSANA calycibus frudlus angulatis, pedunculis 

 tenuibus ramofifllmis. 6';7.;7/. 1141. (Ger, em, 2^^, 

 Pet. herb,t, 14./. 12. Moris, hijt.f, 7. /. i./. ^. 

 Oed, Ban. t. 500. opt.) 

 Nipple v/ort. Anglis, 



In cultivated grounds and vvafl.e places frequent. 

 G. VII. VII. 



The fl:alk is ere6l, from two to five feet high, and 

 branched : the lovv'er leaves are pinnatifid, hav- 

 ing commonly two fmail ptnnu!,^ upon the foot- 



flalk, 



