PL ex. cal. 39. COMPOSIT.ZE, B. 195. Arctium. 435 
Stem red ; leaves not cut ; pericline large, brownish pur- 
ple ; corollce purple. 
/3. minus . Pericline small, roundish, brown. 
2. Arctium major. Great burdock , 
Pericline , when full grown, bald. 
Lappa major, Arctium Dioscoridis, Raii Syn. 197,2. 
Bardana major, Ger. em. 809, 1. 
Bardana vulgaris major, Park. 1222. 
Arctium Bardana, Lin. S. P. 1143. 
Arctium Lappa, Lamarck 111. Gen. 667. 
Lappa major, Be Cand. FI. Gall. 3010. 
Great burr. Burr dock , Clot burr. 
Ruins; biennial; July and August. 
Leaves toothed ; calathides solitary ; pericline large. — - 
Shoots eaten as asparagus, but very inferior. 
minus. Calathides in heads ; pericline small. 
Lappa minor, De Cand. FI. Gall. 3011. 
XXL 196. SERRATULA. Pliny. Sawwort. 
Pericline ovate, bellied ; scales imbricate, ovate and lan- 
ceolate, pointed, not spinous ; flowers female, or male and 
hermaphrodite; clinanthus flat, chaffy; chaffs bristlelike; 
stigma of the female flowers very large, wavy ; akenium 
streaked; pappus hairlike, rough, persistent, in many se- 
ries, longer than the akenium, rays unequal.- — Plant po- 
lygamous, dioicous; root perennial; juice yellow; leaves 
serrated, not spinous; calathides corymbose; corollce purple. 
Serratula iinctoria. Dyeing sawwort. 
Leaves acutely serrated, bald at the base, mostly pinna- 
tifid, rarely not cut; corymbus even-topped. 
Serratula, Raii Syn. 196, 1. 
Serratula purpurea, sive alba, Ger. em. 713. 
Serratula vulgaris flore purpnreo, Park. 474. 
Serratula tinctoria, Lin. S. P. 1153. 
Carduus tinctorius, Stokes Bat. Mat. Med. 4, 142. 
Woods and hedges ; perennial; July and August. 
Root thready; stem upright, slender; leaves \y rate; pe <■* 
ricline-scales rather woolly; corollce purple.^- Plant dyes 
yellow. 
0. alba. Flowers white. 
y. land folia ^ Leaves lanceolate, serrated, 
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