SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA ^QUALIS. itj 
petalous, ligulated, and truncated. There are five very 
fhort capillary filaments with a cylindraceous, tubuloie 
anthera. The germen is partly oval, the ftyle flender 
and the length of the ftamina, the fcigmata are two and 
reflex. The cup is connivent and ovato-cylindraceous, 
and contains folIt;ary, ovate, acuminated, com.prefied 
feeds. The pappus is hairy. The flipes is long and 
attenuated on the lower part. 
. Virofa, Strong-fcented wild Lettuce v/ith vertical lea ves 
and a ftrong fcent. In hedges and the Tides of fields. 
Bien. July\ Aug, 
Saligna, Lhe leafi Wild Lettuce with haflato- linear 
leaves and the lower ones dented. Or Lettuce v/ith the 
radical leaves linear and pinnate, and the fegments dent- 
ed. Found on chalky ground. An, Aug, 
PRENANTHES. Ivy-leaved Wild Lettuce. 
The common cup has a fmall cup added, is cylindra- 
ceous and fmooth, and the fcales are the number of the 
florets, but there are often a few very fnort unequal ones 
at the bafe. The compound flower is from the fimpie 
orb of the flofculi. The hermaphrodite flowers are from 
five to eight, placed in a firnple orb. The proper fower 
is monopetaloLis, ligulated, truncated, quadridentated. 
There are five very fhort capillary filaments, with cylin- 
draceous, tubulofe anthers. The germen is fomewhat 
ovate, the ftyle {lender and longer than the ftamina, the 
ftigma is bifid and reflex. The cup is cylindraceous 
and (lightly connivent, containing folitary, cordate feeds. 
The pappus is pilofe. 
Mur alls. Ivy -leaved V/ild Lettuce \Nixh five flofculi 
and lyrato-hafliated leaves. Jtily. 
Wild Lettuce a yellow flower, R. Sy, -pa, 162. 
LEONTODON, Dandelion, 
The common cup is imbricated and oblong; the in- 
terior fcales arc linear, parallel, equal; the exterior arc 
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