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fays ihefem is only two or three feet high. Leaves narrow ; 

 the upper ones fmall, linear, and entire. 



31. S. forii/anus. Small-flowered Florida Sow-thiftle. 

 Lirni. Sp. PI. 1118. WiUd. u. 13. Purfh n. 6— Flower- 

 ftalks panicled, diftantly fcaly. Leaves fomewhat lyratc, 

 minutely toothed, Imooth, with a large, triangular, acute, 

 terminal lobe.— On road iides, in the (hady woods oi Vir- 

 ginia and Carolina, flowering from July to September. Root 

 biennial. Leaves a fpan long, of two large lobes, befides 

 .the much larger terminal one ; narrow and linear at the bale. 

 '^Panicle, or r/iijler, doubly branched, ipreading. Flo-u-'ers 

 very fmall, blue. Mr. Purfli fays, this plant has been ufed 

 for curing the bite of the rattle-fnake, in the fame manner 

 as his Preimnlhes ferpnitarici, and is known by the name ot 

 Gall of the earth. 



32.S.rtf;/m/nrt/wJ. Pointed-leaved Sow-thiftle. Willd.n.30. 

 (Laftuca villofa ; Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. v. 3. 62. t. 367 ?) 



« Flower-ltaiks flightly fcaly, panicled. Radical leaves 



fomewhat runcinate ; thofe oi" the Item ovate, pointed, 

 llalked." — In low fhiidy places, from Pennfylvania to Vir- 

 ginia, flowering in Augiilt and September. Biennial. 

 Flonvtrs fmall, blue. Purjh. Stem-leaves tapering at each 

 end, and furniflied ;it each fide, in the nuddle, with fmall 

 pointed teeth. It differs from S.for'ulanus in thefe leaves 

 being undivided. They are alio (lightly hairy beneath. The 

 panicle was flender, compofed of {ewjlomers, in Willdenow's 

 wild fpccimen. and the Jeed-dotvn feffile. Jacquin's figure 

 exhibits a triply-compound panicle, of innumerable fmall 

 pale-blue _/?OTOfrj-, and he unluckily does not mention the 

 feed-down. We know nothing of this fpecies, but from 

 thefe authorities. It appears akin to the laft, though fuf- 

 ficiently diftinft. 



^^. S.pallidus. Pale-vellow Canadian Sow-thiftle. Willd. 

 n. 31. Ait. 11. 14. Purfh n. 8. (Laftuca canadcnfis ; 

 Ijinn. Sp. PI. 1119-) — Clufter compound, with fcaly ilalks. 

 Leaves lanceolate, toothed, fmooth, clafping the ftem ; the 

 upper ones taper-pointed. — On road fide":, and in woods, 

 from Canada to New England, flowering from July to Sep- 

 tember. Perennial. Flowers fmall, yellow. Purfh. The 

 fcales of thsjlower-jialks are ovate, pointed, crowded and 

 recurved. Clujler denfe. Calyx very fmooth. Seed-down 

 quite feffile. The leaves are not properly fword-fhaped. 

 Mr. Purfli cites under this fpecies Robert's Icones t. 148 

 and 151, which we have not been able to confult. 



34. S. pulchellus. Beautiful Blue Sow-thiftle. Purfli 

 n. 9. — " Flower-italks fcaly, in a corvmbofe clufter. Stem- 

 leaves ovate-oblong, acute, entire, fmi>oth ; with a clafp- 

 ing heart-fhaped bale." — On the banks of the Miflouri, 

 flowering in September. Perennial. Flowers large, <;f a 

 beautiful blue. PurJIj. 



35. S.Jibiricus. Willow-leaved Sow-thiftle. Linn. Sp. 

 Pl.niS. WiUd. n. 32. Ait. n. 15. ( S. n. 1 1 ; Gmel. 

 Sib. V. 2. 1 1, t. 3. Laftuca falicis folio, n. 21 1 and 212 ; 

 Amm. Ruth. 150.) — Flower-ftalks corymbofe, with dillant 

 lanceolate fcales. Leaves lanceolate, feffile ; the upper ones 

 entire ; lower varioufly toothed. — Found throughout Si- 

 beria, as well as about the river Wolga, and in fome parts 

 of Ruflia and Finland. The root is perennial, creeping ex - 

 tenfively. Stem from one to four feet high, leafy, wan<i- 

 like ; fomctimes branched in the upper part. Leaves nume- 

 rous, about four inches long, very fmooth and even ; rather 

 gi?.ucous at the back. Flowers blue, about an inch in di- 

 ameter, compofing a level-topped corymb. 



36. S. iatarkus. Tartarian Sow-thiltle. Linn. Mant. 

 572, excluding the fynonym. WiUd. n. 33. Ait. n. 16. — 

 Flower-ftalks racemofe, nearly naked. Leaves lanceolate, 



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runcinate.— Native of Siberia and Tartary. Perennial, 

 flowering in June and July. A rather larger plant than the 

 laft ; the teeth of its leaves large, pointing backward. 

 Flowers blue, in compound clullers, terminating the Item 

 and branches. 



^■]. S.prenanthoides. Long-cluftercd Sow-thiftle. " Mar- 

 fchall von Bieberftein." Fifcher MSS. — Flower-ftalks race- 

 mofe, Lateral and terminal, fcaly, downy. Leaves elliptic- 

 oblong, toothed, fomewhat fiddle-fhaped. — Native of mount 

 Caucaius. The^fm is round, terminating in a long feries 

 of alternate, fliortiih, fomewhat compound, clujlers, whofe 

 partial flalks are cottony and fcaly. The Jlowers feem to 

 be blue or purplifh. Leaves fmo(>th, fomewhat (talked, 

 three or four inches long, an inch and half broad, finely 

 toothed ; the upper ones diminifhing into lanceolate narrow 

 l)raSeas. 



SONCINO, in Geography, a town of Italy, on the 

 Oglio ; 8 miles E.N.E. of Crema. 



SONDAU, a town of Brandenburg, in the duchy of 

 Magdeburg ; 50 m.iles N.N.E. of Magdeburg. 



SONDELY, a town of Norway, in the province of 

 Bcriren ; ^o miles S.S.W. of Romfdal. 



SONDERBORG, a lea-port town of Denmark, on the 

 S. coaft of the ifland of Alfen, with a royal palace, and 

 one of the beft harbours in Denmark. In this palace 

 Chriftian II. king of Denmark, was confined as a prifoner 

 for 13 years: the inhabitants are chiefly fcamen : 16 mile3 

 E.N.E. of Flenfljorg. N. lat. 54° 57'. E. long. 9° 59'. 



SONDERSHAUSEN, a town of Germany, in the 

 county of Schwartzburg, fituated on the Wipper. On an 

 eminente without the town (lands the palace, wliere the 

 ruling prince of the Sonderfhaufen line ufually refides ; 

 20 miles N.E. of Mulhaufen. N. lat. 31" 22'. E. long. 

 10° 57'. 



SONDE RSITZ. See Ur.^itz. 



SONDHEIM, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg ; 

 7 miles N. of Bifchoffsheim. 



SONDRE GRUND, or Bottomless, an ifland in the 

 South Pacific ocean, difcovered bv Le Maire and Schoote;i, 

 in 1616; about 20 leagues in circumference, long but not 

 broad. It appeared covered with tree ■, among which were 

 palmetoes and cocoa-nut trees. It had no anchoring ground. 

 The inliabitants were naked, except a piece of mat round 

 the middle, of a ycUowifh or rcddifll-brown colour, and 

 black hair ; their (kin was marked with many figures ; they 

 were covetous of iron, and thieves. S. lat. ij°. W. long. 

 14S0. 



SONDRIO, or Soxders, a town of Italy, and capital 

 of the Valteline, partly on a plain and partly on the fide of 

 a rock, in a romantic fituation, at the extremity of a narrow 

 valley, on a fmall river which runs into the Adda ; 15 miles 

 E. of Chiavenna. N. lat. 46° 6'. E. long. 9° 50'. 



SONE, a town of Bengal; Smiles S.E. of Ramgur. 

 SONEGA, a town of Holland, in Friefland ; 9 miles 

 E. of Knynder. 



SONEGUERA, a town of Mexico, in the province of 

 Honduras ; 32 miles N. of St. Jorge de Olancho. N. lat. 

 15° 15'. W.lorg. S6°40'. 



SONEHUTCH, a town of Hindooftan, in Malwa ; 30 

 miles N.E. of Indore. 



SONENBERG, a town of Germany, in the county of 

 plndentz ; 4 miles N. of Pludentz. — Alfo, a town of the 

 New Mark of Brandenburg ; 6 miles E. of Cullrin. 



SONEPOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Orifl'a, on the 

 Mahanada ; 38 miles S. of Sumbulpour. N. lat. 20' 47'. 

 E. long. 83^ 40'. 



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