6 $2 Ar£fcium. 
40 6. ARCTIUM Lappa. Linn. Sp.pl. 1143. Mat. 
ni. 37 j. Kniph. Bot. orig. ce 72 t .3 . Oed. Icon . 
t. 642. 
Bardana L Lappa major. Dod. Pempt. 3 8. 
Lappa major f. Ardtium Diofcoridis. Zannich. 
Fenez. t. 2/7. 
Perfonata. Camerar. Epit. 881* 
Pharm. BARDANJE Radix, Herba, Semina. 
Locus. Europa, Virginia, Canada, in cultis. 
Perenne. 
FORMA \ rec. Radix cylindrico- fu fiformis, ma- 
jufcula, fubpedalis, defcendens, inltructa fibris fi- 
liformibus, ferie longitudinali, oppofita; extus 
fufca-cinerea, apice lquamis deultatis, emarcidis. 
Parencyma album, poft ledtionem transverfalem 
diltinctum centro medullari orbiculato, fpongio- 
fo , in annofioribus cavo. Caulis ereftus , tere- 
tiufculus , undique ftriato-fulcatus , grolEe villo- 
fus, tripedalis, ramofus, diffufus. Racemi alter- 
ni, axillares e foliis, erecto -patentes, ramulofi. 
Folia alterna, patentia, petiolata , cordata, fu- 
f )ra oblcure viridia, rugola, fubtus cinerea , vil- 
ofa, ner vola , venulofo-reticulata , nervis & ve- 
nulis hifpidiufcula, pedalia, margine undulata, 
grofle crenata, repanda, angulis pollicis rotun- 
datis, ereftis, unde concava bafi apparent. Pe - 
tioli dodrantales, undique villofi, fubtriquetri, 
fubtus fulcato-angulati: angulis purpurascentibus; 
fupra plani, purpurei, bafi latiores, fubvaginati, 
fubamplexicaules. Corymbulus florum terminalis, 
contractus, foliofus, floribus brevius peduncula- 
tis. Foliolum loco bracteae, ad quemvis calycem, 
calyce paullo longius. CAL . communis ovatus, 
imbricatus, glaber, fed filis araneofis implexus, 
viridi -purpurafcens, undique fquarrofus: fqua- 
nds 
