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Black-seeded Florence, or Magnum Bonum, Cos Lettuce. — 



Leaves of young plant spathulate, large, longish, bluntly toothed, 



and tinged with pale 

 /r''l^/y'J)i brown at the base and 



_ on the veins and edges. 



The plant is throughout 

 much paler in colour 

 than the young plant 

 of the preceding variety. 

 Head of full-grown 

 plant elongated, seldom 

 forming unless tied up; 

 outer leaves very long 

 and broad, pale green 

 or yellow, slightly tinged 

 with russet on the parts 

 exposed to the sun, 

 finely crimped, more 

 pointed, and apparently 

 thinner in texture, than 

 those of the preceding 

 kind. They also form a broader rosette, this being often 20 in. 

 in diameter. 



White Long-standing Cos Lettuce {Black-seeded). — Young 

 plant pale green, leaves spathulate, with long stalks, curved 

 outwards and moderately 

 toothed. Resembles the 

 Florence Cos Lettuce, but 

 its leaves are more numerous 

 and stouter, and its head is 

 firmer. Much grown in the 

 south-west of France, and 

 it keeps its heads well during 

 the hot summer, when some 

 popular varieties head badly 

 and run rapidly to seed. 



Balloon Cos Lettuce 

 {Black - seeded). — Young 

 plant a pale, clear green 

 colour ; leaves erect, rather 



White Long-standing Cos Lettuce. 



toothed on the en- 

 margin, the teeth 



narrow, 



tire margm, tne teetn on 

 the lower half being long 

 and sharp, while those to- 

 wards the end of the leaf are faintly marked ; the veins of the 

 leaf, also, are not very clearly defined there. Full-grown plant 



Balloon Cos Lettuce natural size). 



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