COMPOSITE FAMILY 



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decurrent bases of the entire hoary Itavt-s an: 

 very long, needle-hke spines and vellow 



d terminal licads, with 

 floreis. occurs as a 



casual in cultivated land. — Fl. Julv — Septeniber. Annual. 



35- CiCHiJRiUM (Chicor)-), — Stout herbs "with a milky juice; 

 leaves simple, radical, and scattered : heads axillar\- ; otiUr bracts 

 5, small, adpressed : inner S, reflexed after: flowerint; ; floreis all 

 ligulate, 5-toothed ; pappus a double row of small, chafi'y scales. 

 (Name of Classical origin.) 



I. C. Iniyhits (Succory, 

 or Wild Chicory). — \\'ell 

 distinguished by its tough, 

 angled, alternately branch- 

 ing stems, clasping leaves, 

 and large head< of delicate 

 blue, ligulate florets, each 

 of which is distinctly 5- 

 toothed. — '\\'aste places, 

 especially on chalk. Sir 

 James Edward Smith, the 

 founder of the Linnean 

 Society, thus alludes to his 

 early attraction to this 

 beautiful flower : — " From 

 the earliest period of my 

 recollection, when I can 

 just remember tugging in- 

 effectually with all my 

 infant strength at the tough 

 stalks of the ^^'ild Succory, 

 on the chalky hills about 

 Norwich, I ha\-e found the 

 study of nature an increas- 

 ing source of unalloyed 

 pleasure, and a consolation 

 and a refuge under every 

 pain." — Fl. July — October. 



LAPS.VX.\ COMMLWl? {CtVU/llPU Nippicil\-^i-t). 



'erennial. 



Tyd. Arxosekis (Lamb's Succory). — A small plant with milky 

 juice : radical leaves and a few small heads o\ 'yellow florets with an 

 involucre o{ a-boiM 12 /?;-f7(7.5, converging and, strongly keeled at"ter 

 flowering. (.Name from the Greek arnos, a lamb, seris, succory.) 



I. _-]. tiiiniina (Lamb's or Swine's Succory,). — The unly species; 

 stem branching cvmoselv, each branch overtopping its predecessor, 

 thickened and hollow upwards, 3 — S in. high ; leaves radical, 



