Lapsana communis. Nipplewort. 
LAPSANA Limuci Gen. Pl. Syngenesia Polygamia Jegualis. 
Receptaculum nudum. Cal. calyculatusf fquamis fmgulis interioribus ca- 
naliculatis. 
Raii Syn. Gen. 6 . Herbs flore composito natura pleno lastescentes. 
LAPSANA communis calycibus fruftus angulatis pedunculis tenuibus ramofiffimis. Linna, Syjl. Vegrtab. 
f. 602. Sp. pl 1141- FL Suecic.p. 277. 
LAMPSANA caule brachiato ; follis ovatis longe petiolatis ; petiolis pinnatis. Haller hift. n. 6. 
LAMPSANA communis. Scopoli FI Carniol. n. 988. 
SONCHO affinis Lampfana domeftica. C. Bauhinpin.p. 124. 
LAMPSANA Gerard, emac. 255. 
LAMPSANA vulgaris. Parkinfon 810. Rail Syn. 173. Hudfon FI. Angi. p. 303. 
RADIX annua, fimplex, fibrofa. 
CAULIS eredtus, rigidus, bicubitalis, ftriatus, ramofus, 
hirfutus. 
FOLIA oppofita, hirfutula, ad radicem et in ima parte 
caulis uno vel altero pinnularum pari donata, 
fegmento terminali magno, ovato, dentato, fu- 
periora oblonga, dentata. 
CALYX : communis calyculatus, angulatus, laevis, 
fquamse ad bafin minimas ere&ae, fg. 1 • 
COROLLA compofita, imbricata, Corollulis herma- 
phroditis aqualibus ; propria monopetala, ligu- 
lata, truncata quinque dentata, fg. 2. 
STAMINA : Filament a quinque capillaria, breviflima; 
Anther.® cylindracea tubulola, fg. 2. 
PISTILLUM : Germen oblongiufculum ; Stylus 
filiformis, longitudine Staminum ; Stigma 
bifidum, reflexum, fg. 2. 
SEMINA circiter odtodecem, oblonga paululum incur- 
vata, pappo deftituta, intra calycem, fg. 3> 4* 
In gardens as a weed, this plant anfwers very well 
Nature feems amply to have fupplied the want of 
them produced in each plant. It alfo occurs on the 1 
during moft of the Summer months. 
According to Ray it receives its name of Mpp/eu 
virtues or ufes feem attributed to it. 
ROOT annual, Ample, and fibrous 
STALK upright, rigid, about two cubits high, floa- 
ted, branched, hairy. 
LEAVES oppofite, fomewhat hairy, at the root, and on 
the lower part of the ftalk furmfhed with one 
or two pair of pinnulae ; the fegment which 
terminates the leaf large, oval, and indented; 
the upper leaves oblong and indented. 
CALYX ; the common Calyx fmooth, and furmfhed at 
bottom with a few minute, upright fquamuhe, 
fg- u 
COROLLA compound, imbricated, the flofcules her- 
maphrodite and etjual ; each of them monope- 
talous, ligulate, truncated, and having five 
teeth, fg. 2. 
STAMINA: five fmall and very fhort Filaments; 
Anther® uniting into a tube, fg. 2. 
PISTILLUM : Germen oblong ; Style filiform, the 
length of the Stamina: Stigma bifid and 
turning back, fg. 2. 
SEEDS about eighteen, oblong, a 'little bent in, with- 
out any down, contained within the Calyx, 
fg • 3 > 4. 
the name of communis , being in general too common, 
pappus or down in the feeds, by the great number of 
of banks, and in all cultivated ground ; flowering 
from its efficacy in curing fore nipples : no other 
