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** LlGUJjIFLORyE. All the florets hermaphrodite, ligulate. 
Tribe V. Cichoracea. 
Style cylindrioal above and, with its long obtuse branches, 
equally pubescent. Stigmatic lines prominent, narrow, termi- 
nating below the middle of the branches. 
Section 1. LAPSANEJE. Receptacle without scales. Pap- 
pus none. 
34. Lapsana Linn. 
1. Jj. communis (L.); 1. dentate or lobed stalked, lower 1. lyrate, 
involucres glabrous angular, st. jjanicled. — E. B. 844. — St. and 
1. hispid or nearly glabrous. St. 1 — 3 feet high, branched above. 
Heads small, with yellow florets, in terminal j)anicles with small 
subulate bracts at the subdivisions. Involucre of the fruit erect. 
— Waste and cultivated laud. A. VII. VIII. Nipplewort. 
Section 2. HYOSERIDEjE. Receptacle without scales. 
Pappus like a crown, of many entire broad scales. 
35. Arnoseris Gaert. 
1. A.p«si7/a (Gaert.). — Lapsana Sm.,E. B. 95. — St. 3 — Sin. 
high, swelling and hollow upwards, leafless, with a minute bract 
at the base of each branch. Each successive branch overtopping 
its predecessor and gradually thickening up to the solitary small 
terminal head of yellow florets. Involucre connivent over the 
fruit w'hen its scales become remarkably keeled. Receptacle al- 
veolate towards the margins. Fr. small obovate, attenuated be- 
low, with 5 angles. L. radical, oblong, toothed. — Gravelly places, 
rare. A. VI.— VIII. E. S. 
36. CiCHORiUM Linn. 
1 . C. Intyhus (L.) ; low’er 1. runcinate hispid on the keel, upper 
1. oblong or lanceolate clasjring entire, heads a.xillary in pairs 
nearly sessile. — E. B. 539. St. 6. 15. — St. 2 — 3 feet high, bristly, 
alternately branched. Heads numerous, of bright blue handsome 
florets. Floral 1. lanceolate from a broad clasping base. — Banks 
on a gravelly or chalky soil. P. VII. VIII. Succory. Chicory. 
Sections. HYPOCHQiRIDEjE. Receptacle scaly. Pappus 
feathery. 
37. Hypocholris Linn. 
1. H. ylabra (L.) ; st. branched leafless glabrous, 1. oblong 
dentate-sinuate, involucre glabrous equalling the florets. — E. B. 
5/5. — St. 3 — 10 in. high, branched, scaly, each branch termi- 
