PL ex. cal. 39. COMPOSITE, A. 176. Lapsana. 415 
Root branched ; stem rather bald ; root-leaves lyrate ; 
stem-leaves ovate ; floral-leaf linear, lanceolate, 1 at the; 
base of each peduncle. — Eaten at Constantinople just before 
flowering as a salad ; and used in Prussia to cure ulcerated 
breasts. 
II. 177. ARNOSERIS. Gsertner. Swine’s- succory. 
Bractece very few, small ; pericline becoming torulose 
and connivent into a globe; scales many, equal, single- 
rowed, acutely keeled; clinanthus bald, flat, with hollow 
dots ; akenium angular, furrowed ; pappus marginal, 
leathery, 5-sided, not toothed. — Leaves radical ; scape 
thickened above. 
Arnoseris pusilla. Dwarf swine’ s-succory. 
Scape 1 to 3-flowered ; leaves ovate, oblong, denticulate ; 
peduncles fistulous, clubshape, thickened above. 
Hieracium minimum Clusii, Hyoseris Tabermontani ct Gerardi, Raii 
Syn. 173, 1; Park. 791. 
Hyoseris mascula, Ger. em. 288, 8. 
Hyoseris minima, Lin. S. P. 1138. 
Arnoseris pusilla, Gaertner Sem. et Fr. 2,355. 
Sandy fields ; annual ; June. 
Root fusiform; leaves toothed; stem upright, bald, very 
thin at bottom, thicker above ; corolla yellow. 
III. 178. CHONDRILLA. Dioscorides. Gum-succory. 
Bracteoe few, short ; pericline cylindrical ; scales 8 or 
10, membranaceous at the edge, equal ; clinanthus bald, 
hollowed, dotted ; flowers 5 or 6, in one row ; akenium 
ovate, compressed, streaked, rather rough ; pappus stipitate, 
very soft, snow-white, fugacious. — Leaves radical and cau- 
line ; flowers diversely panicled, yellow. 
Chondrilla muralis. Wall gum-succory. 
Leaves lyrate, pinnatifid, toothed, terminal lobe 5-angu- 
lar ; pappus stipitate ; stipes shorter than the akenium ; 
clinanthus diversely panicled. 
Lactuca sylvestris murorum flore luteo, Raii Syn. 162, 5. 
Sonchus laevis muralis, Ger. em. 293, 5. 
Sonchus laevis alter parvis floribus, Park. 805. 
Prenanthes muralis, Lin. S. P. 1121. 
Chondrilla muralis, Lamarck. FI. Fr. 
Ivy-leaved sow-thistle. Wall sow-thistle. 
Walls and close woods; perennial; July. 
