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feet high, ribbed and furrowed. L. very large, oblong-lanceolate, 
wavy, clasping; radical 1. pinnatifid, usually variegated with 
green and milk-white. Heads large, globose. PhyU. closely 
adpressed below, leaflike, with a long terminal recun^ed spine. 
Fl. purple; tube very long. — Waste places. B. VI. VII. E. S. 1; 
Suborder II. LIGULIFLORJE. Fl. all perfect, Ugulate.— 
Style cylindrical above ; branches long, blunt, equally pubescent. 
Stiginatic lines prominent, narrow, terminating below the 
middle of the branches. 
A. Iteceptacle naked. Pajipit-s 0. 
32. Lap'sana Linn. Nipplewort. 
1. L. cmnmunis (L.) ; 1. dentate or lobed stalked, lower 1. lyrate, 
involucres- glabrous angular, st. panicled. — E. B. 844. — St. and 
1. hispid or nearly glabrous. St. 1 — 3 feet high, branched above. 
Heads small, with yellow fl., in terminal panicles -nnth small 
subidate bracts at the subdivisions. Involucre of the fruit erect. 
—Waste and cultivated land. A. VH. VHI. E. S. I. 
B. Iteceptacle naked. Papjnis like a crmm, of many entire 
broad scaleSi 
33. Aenos'eeis Gaert. Swine's Succory. 
1. A. piml'la (Gaert.).— Lapsa7ia Sm., E. B. 95. — St. 3—8 in. 
high, swelling and hollow upwards, leafless, with a minute bract 
at the base'of each branch. Each branch overtopping its prede- 
cessor and gradually thickening up to the solitary small terminal 
head of yellow flowers. Inv. connivent over the fr. when its 
phyll. become remarkably keeled. Receptacle honey-combed 
towards the margins. Fr. small, obovate, attenuate below, 5- 
angled. L. radical, oblong, toothed. — Gravelly and sandy fields, 
rare. X.\l.—\m. E. S. 
34. Cicho'eittm: Linn. Succory. Chicoi-y. 
1. C. In 'tyhns (L.) ; lower 1. runcinate hispid on the keel, upper 
1. oblong or lanceolate clasping entire, heads axillary in pairs 
nearly sessile.— £ B. 539. ISt. 6. 15.— St. 2—3 feet hi^h, bristly, 
alternately branched. Heads many, fl. bright blue, handsome. 
Floral 1. lanceolate from a broad clasping base. — Waste places 
on a gravelly or chalky soil. P. ^^I. VHI. E. S. I. 
C. Receptacle scaly. Pappus feathery. 
35. HrPOCHCE'Kis Linn. Cat's-ear. 
* Pappus with an Ofuter row of bristles. 
1. H. glabra (L.) ; st. branched leafless glabrous, /. oblony, 
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