200 COMPOSITE. 



Egypt, common in cultivation. July. Annual. Stem branching. 1 to 2 feet high, 

 •triate. Leaves sub-amplcxicaul, smooth and shining, spinose. Htadt large, ter- 

 minal, with numerous long and slender flowers, useful in coloring tinctorci. 



59. XERAXTHEMUM, Linn. 



Or. xeroi, dry, anthoi, flower; on account of its dry imperishable flower*. 



Heads discoid. Involucre hemispherical ; scales r*- 

 iient, opaque, colored, scarious. Receptacle chaffy. Pap- 

 pus bristly-chaffy. — Annual herbs, natives of South Europe, 

 wriih radient involucre scales which retain their beauty a great length 

 •f time. 



X. ANNUUM, Willd. Eternal Flower. Straw Flower. 



Stem erect branched ; leives oblong-lauceolat?, somewhat obtu*?, alternate, cn» 

 tire; foods large, terminal, solitary; uwotoere scales obtuse, siarious: inner ones 

 of the ray spreading, lanceolate, obtuse. A singularly beautiful plant, cultivated 

 for its imperishable flowers which retain their beauty through the winter. SUi* 

 ••to 4 feet high. The radiant involucre s?a!es are of a rich purple, but there are, 

 soma varieties wiih red, white, Hoe and yellow rajs; expanding in sunshine, but 

 •lesing in.rainy weather. 



Suborder it. LIGULIFLOR^. 



Flowtrs all perfect with ligulate corollas throughout. 



Subtribe 6. CICHORACE^E. 



Flowers all perfect and ligulat?: branches of the-style slender, obtuse, uniibrm» 

 Ij hairy. Plant* with a mil.'.y juice ; leaves alternate. 



60. CICHORIUM. Tonrn. Succory. 



Said to be derived from the Arabic Cuilourych. 



Heads many-flowered. Involucre double, the outer se~ 

 rks of 5 short spreading scales, the inner of 8 to 10 scales^ 

 Aceexia striate. Pappus of numerous very small chaffy 

 ■cales, forming a short crown. — Branching perennials, with 

 toothed or pinnati/id 'radical leaves, and sessile axillary and termi* 

 nal headf of bright blue shoicy fiowen. 



1. C. Inttbus, L. Common Succory or Cichory. 



Eadical leaves runcinate; stem leaves small, oblong, or lanceolate, partly clasping , 

 toothed or entire ; heads 2 or 3 together. 



Cultivated and somewhat naturalized in grass fields, roadsides. &c. S'em 2 to I 

 ftet high, round, rough, with few long branches. IL\id.< qf/Umen 1 to 2 inch— 

 kr diameter, sky-blue, somewhat remote on the long branches. Corollas flat, t- 

 toothed. July, Sept. Native of Europe. 



2-~ C. Endivia, L. Endive. 



ftdundu axillary, in [sirs, ens of them elongated and 1-headtd, the other verf 



