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The B R i 1 I S H HERBAL. 
GENUS V. 
BURDOCK. 
L A P P J. 
^T^HE flowers are collected in large, rounded heads, and are contained many in a common ciip • 
which is formed ot oblong fcales, whofc points turn downwards as To many hooks. Each flower 
has a long, flender tube, and is divided into five fegments at the rim. The feeds are pyramidal, 
and winged witli fhort down. 
l.innreus places this with the preceding among the fyngenejia : but he takes away the received name 
hippii, and calls the genus ar^iiwi. 
I. Great Burdock. 
Lappa vulgaris major. 
The root is long and thick, brown on the 
outfide, white within, and hung with a few 
fibres. 
The ftalk is a yard high, ftriatcd, tough, and 
divided into many branches. 
The leaves are extremely large : they are broad 
at the bafe, fmaller to the point, and ol a greyifli 
green colour. 
The flowers are of a faint purple. 
It is common every where in wafl:e grounds, 
and flowers all fummer. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lappa major acritim Diofco- 
ridis. Others, Lappa, and Bordana fvajor. 
The root is an excellent diuretick and deob- 
flruent. 1 he befl way of giving it is in a ftr.-ng 
infuflon ; and it is thus very ferviceable in ob- 
ftrudions of urine, and in the jaundice. It is 
alfo much celebrated in afthmas. The feeds pof- 
fefs the fame virtues. 
2. Smooth-headed Burdock. 
Lappa capitidis maximis glabrh. 
The root is long, thick, brown, and full of a 
flimy juice. 
The fl:alk is red toward the bottom, very 
tough, divided into m'any branches, and five 
feet high. 
The leaves are of a vafi: fize, and of a deep 
green. 
The flowers are of a fine red -, and the heads | 
in which they are contained are very large and 
fmooth. 
It is frequent by way-fides with the other, and 
flowers in Auguft. 
Ray calls it Lappa major capuido maximo 
glahro. 
g. Small-headed Burdock. 
Lappa major capituUs minoribus. 
The root is long, thick, and of a pale colour. 
The fl:alk is tough, ftriated, and very much 
branched. 
The leaves are large, oblong, and not fo broad 
* as in the common fpccies. 
The heads are fmooth, fmall, and very nume- 
rous : they are of a conic figure, and have tufts 
of purple flowers. 
It is common in our fouthern counties, and 
flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Lappa major tapitidis parvis 
glabris. 
4. Woolly-headed Burdock. 
Lappa capindis viagnis tomentcfis. 
The root is long, thick, and brown. 
The fialk is very thick, ftriated, purplifh. 
and five feet high : it is divided into many 
branches, and thick fet with leaves, 
Thefe are broad, fiiort, rough, of a grey 
green, and of an uneven furface. 
The flowers fl:and at the tops in vafl: roundifii, 
woolly heads. 
The feeds are large and brown. 
It is common in our wafte grounds, and 
flowers in June. 
Ray calls it Lappa major capitidis tomenlofis. 
Others, Bardana major capitidis lanuginofis, 
5. Globular-headed Burdock. 
Lappa capitidis minoribus globof.s. 
The root is long and large. 
The ftalk is tough, firm, upright, and four 
feet high ; and it is divided into many branches, 
and thick fet with leaves. 
Thefe are very large, broad, rumpled, of a 
duflcy green, and clammy. 
The flowers are of a pale red, fometimes white; 
and they are collefted into little, globular heads \ 
which are thick fet with a woolly matter. 
We have it in our northern counties, where it 
flowers in May. 
Ray calls it Lappa major montana capitulis mi- 
noribus rotundioribus et magis tomentofis. 
6. Little Cobweb-headed Burdock. 
Lappa minor capitulis reticulatis. 
The root is very long and brown. 
The fl:alk is lightly ribbed, and of a redifh co- 
lour. 
The leaves are large, and have brown foot- 
ftalks : they are of an uneven furface, and pale 
green. 
The flowers are little and purple-, and they 
are coUefted into fmall olive-coloured heads, ele- 
gantly reticulated with a white, woolly matter. 
Petiver calls it Bordayia minor capitido araneofo. 
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