SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA ^QUALIS. 193 
Intyhus, JVild Succory with a fingle ftalk, and indent- 
ed, fmuated leaves, and commonly blue flowers. July^ 
Aug. 
ARCTIUM. Burdock or Clotburr.^ 
The common cup is globofe and imbricated; the 
fcales are lanceolated and end in long fubulated awns, 
in the points fhaped like a hook. The compound 
flower is tubulated and uniform, the hermaphrodite flo- 
rets are equal. The proper flower is monopetaloiis and 
tubulated, the tube is flender and long, the limb is oval 
and quinquifld, the fegments are linear and equal. There 
are five capillary and very fliort filaments. The anthe- 
ra is cylindraceous, tubtilofe, the length of the corolla, 
and quinquedentated. The genmen is oblong with a 
viilofe apex, the (tyie is flender and longer than the (la- 
mina and the fllgma is bifid and reflex. There is no 
feed-veiTel but the cup is connivent and contains'fingle, 
pyramidal, and angular feeds. 
Lappa, Burdock or Clothurr v/ith heart-fliaped leaves 
without prickles on foot-fialks. Bien, July,, Aug, 
The four or five fpecies, of other authors, are only- 
varieties, and not diflind fpecies according to Linn^^ius* 
SERRATULA. Saw-wort.' 
The common cup is oblong, cylindraceous, and im- 
bricated v/ith lanceolated, acute, beardlcfs fcales. The 
compound flower is tubulofe and uniform ; the herma- 
phrodite florets are equal. The proper flower is mono- 
petalous and infundibuliform; the tube is inflex, the 
limb is ventricofe and quinquifld. The filaments are 
five, flender and Ihort, and the antherae cylindraceous 
and tubulofe. The germ.en is oval, the flyle flender, 
and the length of the (lamina, having two oblong, reflex 
ftigmata. The feeds are Angle, fomewhat ovate, having 
fometimes plumofe, fometimes pilofe down. 
C c. L'inBcrici. 
