THE 
BRITISH HERBAL. 
CLASS XXVI. 
Plants whofe flower is comfofed of numerous flofcules, or fmaller difiinEi 
flmeers ; -which are flat not tubular, to the end ; and are arranged toge- 
ther in a fcalj cup ; the whole naturally full or double ; the entire num- 
ber of flofcules forming each general flower being uniform, and regularly 
difpofed ; and whofe leaves and ftalhs yield, on being broken, a white 
milky juice. 
THE firft glance, even of an unexperienced eye, fees thefe plants, numerons as tliey are, to 
be regularly connefted with one another, and evidently divided from thofe of all the other 
claffes ; but the prefent mode of fcicncc, banifhing the ufe of obvious charafters, and efla- 
blilhing its diainfiions only on the difpofition and number of the minuter parts, confounds thefe 
plants with the capitate or thiUlc kind defcribed before ; and with the corymbiferous, as well as fimply 
difcoidc, to be defcribed hereafter under one general term, the fyngmefia. 
Thus arranged together, they conftitute the clafs diHinguifhcd by that term in the Lmnsan fyflem, 
and are with tiie thillles ranked alfo with the violet and balfam. 
SERIES I. 
Natives B R i T A i N. 
Thofe of which one or more fpecies are found naturally wild in this country. 
GENUS I. 
LETTUCE. 
L J C T U C J. 
r-pl IE llower is compofed of numerous, flat, or ligulated flofcules, notched at the extremity, and 
1 arranged together in a fcaly cup, of an oval or oblong figure, formed of numerous, foft, and 
fliarp pointed fcalcs. The feeds are winged with down, and the ftalks of the plant are tolerably firm 
and folid. 
J.innKus places this among ihe fingmcfia ; the filaments, as in the others, having buttons, which 
unite into a cylinder. 
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