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COMPOSITE 



more or less pinnatifid, toothed, often prickly, the upper ones 

 clasping, with spreading sagittate auricles ; fruit ribbed and trans- 

 versely wrinkled. — AVaste places, and as a weed in gardens ; 

 common. This plant is a favourite food for rabbits. — Fl. June — 

 August. Annual. 



2. S. lis per (Rough Sow-thistle) has more spinously-toothed 

 leaves witli rounded auricles, and ribbed, but not transversely 



SONCHUS or.EKAcETi5 (C/'"nrn^7i Snii'-ZhistU', Milk-tliistle). 



wrinkled, jruii. — It occurs under the same circumstances as the 

 preceding, and is almost as common, — Fl. June — August. 

 Annual. 



3. 5. rtWfws; J- (Corn Sow-thistle). — SCem 2 — 4 feet high, tubular, 

 angular, usually unbranched below ' leaves v.iriable, wa\"ed, 

 almost spinous, glaucous beneath, the lower ones runcinate, 

 heart-shaped at the base, the upper ones with rounded auricles ; 

 licads corymbose, large ; involucre and [yeduucles hairy with glan- 

 dular hair.s. — In similar situations with the last, from which it 



