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client narne by which it was called by 
piofcorides* Later bptanifts have given 
it- the name of Lappa* probably from 
XctpGcuru, capio, from its catching hold 
of people's garments as theypafs. Lin- 
naeus took the Diofcordian name for 
the genus , and Lappa for the Species. It 
is of the Clafs and Order Syngenejla^ 
folygamia tequalis. Its medium height 
is between two and three feet. The 
flowers are purple, on the top of a 
large, globular imbricated common 
calyx, the exterior fcales of which are 
fharp and hooked, fo as to catch faft 
hold of every thing they touch. Whe- 
ther Virgil, enumerating the weeds 
that infeft the corn-fields, meant this 
Burdock, or the Galium ap^rine* is mat- 
ter of contention among his commen- 
tators, 
erafyha, 
Lappaque t Tribulique * Geor. I. 52. 
Be this as it may, the Lappa of Pliny is 
certainly the Aparim of Theophraftus and 
Diofcorides. You will find this fubjeft 
learnedly difcuffed in Martyn's Virgil. 
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