68 The VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
4. S C A L Y-F OOTSTALK’D SOWTHISTLE. 
Plate 1 1 5. Fig. 3. 
Character of the Species. Sonchus Floridanus. 
The Leaves are harped : the footftalks of the Flowers are 
covered with little Scales. 
Fig. 4. a b. 
This is an Annual, native of Virginia, and flowers in Augufl: : 
it is five feet high : the Leaves are pale green ; and the Flowers are 
blue. 
5 . BRANCHY SOWTHISTLE. 
Plate 116. Fig. 5. Smooth Sowthistle. 
CThara&erof the Species. Sonchus oleraceus laevis. 
The Stalk is branched ; the Leaves are deep fmuated ; 
and the footftalks of the Flowers are downy. 
Fig. 5. a b. 
This is an Annual ; or, if we may be allowed a new term, a 
IYIensal Plant; for it will grow from feed to flowering in about 
thirty days ; and has in a fummer many generations. Had one of 
the autumnal plants a voice, it might fay with truth. My grandfa- 
ther’s great grandfather was born this laft fpring ; and my father has 
manured the ground wherein I grow : fo quick is the fhoot, and fo 
fhort the duration of this kind of plants. 
It is a yard high ; the Leaves are of a bluifli green ; and the 
Flowers are yellow. 
6. CLUSTERY SOWTHISTLE. 
Plate 1 1 6. Fig. 6. 
Character of the Species. Sonchus Alpinus. 
The Leaves are winged and have a great fpear’d lobe at 
the end ; the Flowers grow in clufters upon downy 
footftalks. 
Fig. 6. a b. 
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