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COMPOSIT/E 



obovate, toothed ; heads terminating the branches, ^ in. across. — 

 Dry places ; rare. — Fl. June —August. ^\.nriual. 



37. LAPb.ixA (Nipplewort). — Slender, erect, branched plants 

 with milky juice; scattered leaves; and small heads of S — 12 

 yellow florets, with i row of erect hracls.^ (Name, an old Latin 

 name. ) 



I. L. coiiiinuiiis (Common Nipplewort). — The only British 



species; a branched, leafy plant, 2 — 3 'feet high; radical leaves 

 broadly lyrately-pinnatifid, stalked ; caulijie leaves small, dentate ; 

 heads numerous, | in. across ; bracts linear, stiff, keeled. — ^^'aste 

 places and hedgerows ; abundant. — Fl. July, August. Annual. 



38. Pi'cKis. — Hispid, branched planjs with a milky juice; 

 leaves mostly scattered, simple, toothed ;, Jieads of yellow ligulate 

 florets, with bracts in 2 rows ; fruit bro,wn, curved, transversely 

 wrinkled ; pappus of 2 or more ro\\s of feathery hair.s. (Name 

 from the Greek picros, bitter, j 



I. /'. hieracwides (Hawkvveed Picris). — A slender, erect plant, 



