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Centrantlius Airosiphon, Bots. , or rubber, (sugarplum.) A 

 smooth erect plant two feet high, with fleshy sub-entire leaves 

 two to three inches long. Flowers dense, terminal, level-top- 

 ped, red. Originally a garden plant it has spread and is in 

 some parts common, especially at Somerset. Annual. Sum- 

 mer months. 



Valerianella Olitoria or Fedia, Vahl. (lamb's lettuce.) A 

 small plant with forked branches, in the axils of which dense, 

 flat clusters of small lilac flowers are collected. Leaves one to 

 two inches long, and said to be excellent in salads. Both Le- 

 froy and Reade assign it to St. David's Island. Annual. 



Natural Order, Compositae. 



Eupatorium Foeniculaceum. Willd. (dog fennel.) A tall 

 plant with, fennel-like leaves. Stem four to six feet high, 

 much branched, leaves alternate, divided into numerous slen- 

 der segments. Flower-heads very numerous, small, in a sort 

 of compoun(3 p^-ramid. Flowers dirty white, one-tenth of an 

 inch in diameter. Annual. Autumn months. 



Bidens I,eucantha. Willd. (shepherd's needle.) An erect 

 plant, stems four-angled, branching, smooth. I/eaves and 

 leaflets serrate. Flowers yellowish with white rays, heads 

 three-quarters of an 'inch in diameter. Annual. A common 

 weed, noticeable for its barbed aums sticking to the clothes. 

 Summer months. 



Chichorium Intybus. Linn. (wild cherry.) An almos 

 shrubby plant with erect, tough, angular stem vdth bare spread- 

 ing branches, two to three feet high. Lower leaves deeply 

 and sharplj- toothed backwards; upper ones narrow, heart- 

 shaped, clasping the stem. Flcwer-heads in pairs with hairy 

 fringe. Florets along the stalk numerous. Flowers one to 

 one-and-a-half-inch across, bright blue. Very common every- 

 where. Although a good substitute for coffee, and used in 

 adulterating the latter, yet the fleshly roots are not used here. 

 Perennial. Summer months. 



Taraxicum Dens-Leonis. Defs. (dandelion.) A plant 

 whose leaves, deeplj- toothed backwards, lie mostly flat on the 

 ground. All spring from the root. Flower-stalks hollow. 



