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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
8. Great Marlh Tree Sow-Thiflle. 
Sonchis arborefcens folio- cufpidato. 
The root is long and white. 
The ftalk is round, upright, eight feet high, 
and of a dead green : toward the top it divides 
into numerous branches. 
The leaves are long, confiderably broad, deeply 
indented, and pointed at the end. 
The flowers are of a gold yellow, numerous, 
and very large. 
It is a native of our marflies, and flowers in 
autumn, 
Merret calls it Sonchus triaihitalis folio cufpi- 
dato. 
9. Sharp prickled Sow-Thifl.Ie, 
Sonchus afper dentatns. 
The root is fibrous. 
The ftalk is round, hollow, purplifli, and two 
feet high. 
The leaves are long, and confiderably broad : 
DIVISION II. 
Blue Mountain Sow-Thiftle. 
Sonchus cttruko fore. 
The root is long and thick. 
The ftalk is round, hollow, purplifh, and of a 
firm fubfl:ancc : it is not much branched. 
The leaves are large, oblong, Hiarp-pointed, 
deeply and irregularly pinnated, and finely fer- 
rated along the fegments. 
The flowers are very large, and of a fine fls-y- 
blue. 
they are dentated fharply at the edges, and bcfct 
with P.ronger prickles than the others. 
The flowers terminate the branches \ and arc 
large, and of a gold yellow. 
It is found in corn-fields, and flowers in July. 
Petiver calls it Sonchus afper dcntaSus. Dodo- 
ncEus, Sonchus afpericr. 
10. Laciniated, fmooth Sow-Thillle. 
Sonchus litvis lacinintus. 
The root is long, (lender, and hung with many 
fibres. 
The fialks are round, hollow, upright, and 
five feet high. 
The leaves are long and large : Ehey are con- 
fidcrably broad j and they are divided down to 
the rib in many fegments. 
The flowers are large, and of a faint yellow. 
It is frequent in the weft: of England, and 
Bowers in June. 
Petiver calls it Sonchus Uvis Inceratus ; a nam.e 
others have copied. 
It is found on the mountains of Italy, and 
flowers in May. 
Petiver calls it Sonchus c^eruUus Uvis. Others, 
Sonchus montanus Citj'uleo flare. 
All the fo-JJ-thiftks polTefs the fame qualities, 
which are very trifling with regard to medicine. 
They are cooling, outwardly applied. Some have 
eaten the young flioots ; but they are not plea- 
fane. 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
GENUS III. 
H A W K W E E D. 
H I E R A C H 1 U M. 
THE flower is compofcd of numerous flofcules, arranged in a fmall head. The common cup 
to thefe is oblong; and is formed of numerous, irregular fcales, lying clofe on one another. 
■Each flofcule is flat, and dented in five places at the end. The flalks of the plant are firm, and the 
feeds oblong and flender. 
Linnreus places this among the fyngcncfia^ the buttons cn the threads coalefcing into a cylinder. 
DIVISION I. 
BRITISH SPECIES. 
1. Hawkweed with bitten roots, 
Hieracium radice ahrupta. 
The root is compofed of numerous, thick 
fibres, joined to a fmall, oblong head, which 
terminates abruptly, and looks as if bitten ofi'. 
The fl:alks are numerous, afoot high, branched, 
and of a pale green. 
The leaves are long, narrow, and fliarply di- 
vided at the edges. 
1'he flowers are fmall, and of a full yellow. 
It is common in paftures, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhins cail'i it Hieracium chc-ndrilLe folio 
glahro. 
2. Long-rooted Hawkweed. 
Hieracium longins radicatum. 
The ront is very long, moderately thick, and 
of a pale bi*ov,'n. 
The leaves rife in aclufter from this j and they 
are oblong, moderately broad, and of a deep 
green : they are obcufe at the ends, and are irre- 
gularly finuated at the edges. 
The fi:alks rife among thefe ; and are flender, 
tough, branched, a foot and half high, and of a 
pale green : they have rarely any rudiment of a 
leaf upon them. 
The flovv'fcrs grow at the tops of the branches 
and are of a fine gold yellow. 
It is common in paftures, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Hieraciim d:ntis kojiis folia 
ohtufum majus. 
3. Smooth yellow Hawkweed. 
Hieracium luteutn glabrum faUis lacimatis. 
The root is compofcd of numerous fibres, 
The 
