The VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
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This is a Biennial, native of France, and flowers on their dry 
wade grounds in Auguft : the Stalk is of a pale green. The Leaves 
are of a fine ftrong green, and the Flowers are of a deep yellow. 
GENUS II. 
O X - T O N G U E. 
P I C R I S. 
Character of the Genus. 
The body of the Cup is oval, and thick fet with Scales » 
its Fringe is compofed of five large hearted leafy Films.. 
1 late 132. 0 a b. 
i. WIDE-FRING’D OX-TONGUE. 
Lang de Beuf. 
Chr.ra&er of the Species. Pjcris Echoidesv 
The Flowers are kept clofe by the neck of the Cup : the 
fringe of the Cup is harfh to the touch. 
Fig. 3. a. 
This is a Biennial, native of our dry banks and hilly commons, 
flowering from June to November : the Leaves are of a frefh, but 
not ftrong green, and they are covered with a kind of white blifters. 
The Stalks are often brown ; and the Flowers are of a fine yellow. 
The roughnefs of its Leaves occafioned our old Writers to call it 
Wild Buglofs : fo little did they attend to the real characters of 
Plants. We now generally know it by the French Sallad name, 
Lang de Beuf, Ox-tongue, from the oblong ftiape, and extream 
roughnefs of the Leaves. 
2. BROAD- 
