SYNGENESIA. iEQUALIS. Sonchus. 
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We readily restore the more ancient and discriminative appellation, this 
being' the onlv blue-flowered British Sonchus. Mountainous pastures. 
Borders of corn-fields about Willington and Howden-Pans, Northumber¬ 
land. Wallis’s Northumb. p. 186*. (This alpine plant has hitherto been 
admitted into the British Flora solely on the above authority, the error 
of which Mr. Winch has recently detected, as referring only to Cichorium 
Intybus. The genuine S. cceruleus has however been discovered in Aber¬ 
deenshire, on the mountain of Loch-na-gore, and on the Clova mountains 
by Mr. G. Don. E. Bot. E.) P. July—Aug. 
S. arven'sis. Fruit-stalks and calyxes rough with hair, in a sort of 
umbel: leaves notched, heart-shaped at the base, (root creeps 
ing. E.) 
Curt. 265—(E. Bot. 674. E.)—Pet. 14. 6— Fuchs. 319— J. B. ii. 1018. 1 — 
Lob. Obs. 119. 3, and Ic. i. 237. 1— H. Ox. vii. 6. 12— Lonic. 92. 1— 
Matth. 765—Ger. 231. 7—Ger. Em. 294. 8—Park. 808. 3. 
Leaves embracing the stem ; segments triangular, toothed; teeth sharper 
and more prickly than those of S. palusiris ; the upper spear-shaped, but 
not tapering out to so great a length. Seeds oval, compressed, longitudU 
nally and transversely furrowed. Down sessile. Woodw. Stems rough 
with glandular bristly hairs. Leaves amplexicaul, perfectly smooth, 
except at the edges, which are almost thorny. Hairs of the calyx and 
fruit-stalks pale green, terminated by yellow globules. ( Root creeping, 
fleshy, lactescent. Stem three or four feet high, hollow. Panicle few- 
flowered, terminal, hispid. Blossom very large, golden yellow, closing 
about noon. E.) 
Corn Sow-thistle. (Welsh: Llaeth ysgallen. E.) Corn-fields and 
ditch banks. P. Aug.* 
S. palusiris. Fruit-stalks and calyxes rough with hair, in a sort of 
umbel: leaves notched, arrow-shaped at the base : (root fleshy, 
branching, but not creeping. E.) 
Curt. 298— E. Bot. 93 5. E.)— FI. Dan. 1109, and 606— Pet. 14. 7 — Clus. ii. 
147. 3— Ger. Em 294. 9— Park. 808. 2— It. Ox. vi. 9, row 3. 11. 
In habit it is very distinct from S. arvensis , but its structure is so much the 
same, that S. palusiris might be supposed to have originated from that 
species. Flowers closing in the afternoon. Linn. Root not creeping,. 
Stems several, six to ten feet high. Curt. Lower stem-leaves very large ; 
upper arrow-shaped, and embracing the stem at the base; segments spear- 
shaped, variously curved, two or three pair, with a terminal one very 
long, smooth, finely toothed at the edge, the principal rib running near 
the inner edge. Upper-leaves arrow-spear-shaped, lengthened out into 
an extended point. Floral-leaves awl-shaped. Woodw. Blossom yellow, 
(twice as long as the calyx. One of the largest herbaceous plants. E.) 
Tall Marsh Sow-thistle. Watery places and banks of rivers. On 
those of the Thames about Greenwich, Blackwall, and Poplar. Ray. 
* The flowers regularly follow the course of the sun ; (indeed far more so lhan does the 
Sun-flower, (properly so denominated from its golden colour and radiated efflorescence), 
which has not the power thus to pay homage to the God of Day, its strong and rigid stem 
resisting the stimulus of light. E.) Cows and goats eat it. Horses are fond of it. 
{Livia Sonchi frequents this and other species. E.) 
