s. Ox-tongue. 
Picris echioide 
PICRIS L!ma-i Gen. PI. Syngenesia Polygamia asoEalis. ^ 
Recept. nudum. Cal. calycuUtus. Pappus plumofus. Sem. tranfverfim fulcata. ' 
Rail Sy?!. Gen. 6, HerbJ! eloee composito ; katuea pleno lactescentes. 
PICRIS echoes pemnthiis exterioribus pentaphylUs, interioribus ariftato majoribus. Linnai. Syjl. 
Vegeiab. p. 593’ 1114* 
HIERACIUM echioides capitulis cardui benediai. Bauhm. Pm. 128. 
BUGLOSSUM luteum. Gerard, emac. 798. 
lingua BOVIS. Parkinfon. 800. ' Syn. p. 196, Lang de boeuf. 
Hudfon. FI AngL ed. 2. p. 342. 
RADIX annua, ramofa. 
CAULIS bi aut tripedalis, ramofiffimus, ramis divari- 
catis, ereftus, rubens, ftriatus, fpinolus, fpi- 
nis plurimis, horizontalibus, apice hamatis. 
FOLIA amplexicaulia, oblonga, acuta, tuberculofa, 
rpinofa. 
PEDUNCULI fulcati, verfus apicem fenfim incraffati. 
CALYX communis duplex, exterior maximus, penta- 
phyllus, Involucro iimilis', foliolis cordatis, 
fpinofis, interior Imbricatus, fquamae exterio- 
res paucas, minimae, inaequales, interiores e- 
re£fcse, sequales, ariftat®, 7^. i, 2, carinata, 
carina cum auM hifpidis, fetae inferiores un- 
culis quatuor apice inftruflis, 7?^. 3, fuperio- 
res ipinolte, fimplices, longiores. 
COROLLA compofita, Coro//w/^ hermaphrodita, tu- 
bulofe, flav« ; Tubus tenuis, pilofus, fg. 4, 
albidus; Limbus quinquedentatus, dentibus 
inaequalibus. 
STAMINA : Filamenta quinque, capillaria, bre- 
vlflima : Antherje intubum tenuem, flavum, 
coalit*. 
PISTILLUM ; Germen oblongum, I*ve, album : 
Stylus filiformis, antheris longior : Stig- 
mata duo, reflexa. 
SEMEN oblongum, rufum, tranfverfim minutiffime 
firiatum. 
PAPPUS ftipitatus, pilofus, Jig. 5. 
ROOT annual, and branched, 
STALK two or three feet hi_gb,_ very much branched, 
(the branches]divaricating,) upright, of a red- 
diih purple colour, Rriated, and fpinous, the 
fpines numerous, horizontal, and hooked at 
the extremity. 
LEAVES embracing the ftalk, oblong, pointed, co- 
vered with tubercles and fpines. 
FLOWER-STALKS grooved, and gradually enlarged 
towards the extremity. 
CALYX common to many florets, and double ; the 
exterior one large, and compofed of five heart- 
fhaped prickly leaves, which refemble an In- 
volucrum ; the inner one imbricated ; the 
outermoft fcales few, fmall, and uneven ; the 
innermoft upright, equal, terminating with 
an arifta, 7%. i, 2, keeled, the keel toge- 
ther with the arifta hifpid, the little fpines 
on the lower part terminating in four fmall 
hooks, 7%. 3, thofe on the upper partfimple 
and longer. 
COROLLA compound ; the Florets hermaphrodite, 
and yellow ; the Tube flender, hairy, fg. 4, 
and whitlfti ; the Limb terminated by five un- 
I STAMINA : five Filaments, very fine and fhort : 
t ANTHER.E united in a llender, yellow tube. 
t 
■f 
I PISTILLUM : Germen oblong, fmooth, and white . 
4 Style thread-lhaped, and longer than the 
I anther*: Stigmata two, turning back. 
I SEED oblong, of a reddifli orange colour, very finely 
I ftriated tranfverfely. 
I DOWN ftanding on a foot-ftalk, and hairy, fg. 5. 
THE only ufe to which we find this fingular plant to have been applied, is as a pot-herb. Rail. Hifl. p. 233. 
to which purpofe its appearance is certainly no recommendation. 
It grows not unfrequently on banks, on the edges of fields, and in woods that have been cut down ; and flowers 
in June and July. 
