SYNGENESIA. jEQUALIS. LeontoUon. 887 
nearly sessile, small, Woodw. yellow, (longer than the glaucous calyx, 
expanding only in fine weather, forming tufted clusters. E.) 
Least Lettuce. Narrow-leaved Lettuce. Ditch banks and pas¬ 
tures in chalky soil. (On a ditch bank by the road side, at Spechley, 
near Worcester. Purton. E.) About Pancras church. Ray. Lanes in 
Dorsetshire, but rare. Pulteney. B. Aug. 
PRENAN /r THES. # Receptacle naked: Calyx double: Down 
hair-like, nearly sessile: Florets about five, in a single 
row. 
P. mura'lis. Florets five : leaves runcinate. 
Curt. —( E. Bot. 457. E.)— FI. Dan. 509— Clus. ii. 146. 2— Lobs. Ohs. 119. 
2. and Ic. i. 236. 1— Ger.Em. 293. 5— Park. 805. 2— J. B. ii. 1004— Pet. 
15. 5. 
{Boot rather ligneous. A slender, smooth, brittle, lactescent plant, about 
a foot high ; stem leafy, hollow, cylindrical. Florets yellow, opening 
wide, longer than the purplish calyx. FI. Brit. E.) Root-leaves on 
long leaf-stalks, deeply notched; lower segments few, small, somewhat 
oval, terminal one large, somewhat triangular, with five lobes, resembling 
the leaves of Ivy in its creeping state, (sometimes purplish beneath. E.) 
Flowering branches subdivided. Fruit-stalks slender, each with one 
flower. Woodw. Stem-leaves amplexicaul, deeply notched; segments 
opposite, toothed, terminal one largest. Calyx , outer , scales three, spear- 
shaped ; inner strap-shaped, generally coloured. Seeds oblong, com¬ 
pressed, scored. Down supported by a short pedicle, (which lengthens 
as the seed ripens. E.) 
(Ivy-leaved Wall-Lettuce. E.) Walls. Shady woods, (particularly 
in calcareous soil. E.) P. July. 
LEON'TODON.-f- Receptacle naked : Calyx tiled, double ; 
the inner scales parallel, equal: Down hair-like. 
(1) Down pedicellate. 
L. tarax'acum. Outer scales of the calyx entire, reflexed: leaves 
smooth, notched, and acutely toothed. 
Curt. — {E. Bot. 510. E.)— Mill. III. — Blackw. 501— Woodv. p. 7— FI. Dan. 
574— Wale. — Ger. 228. 1— II. Ox. vii. 8, row 2. 1— Dod. 636. 1— Lob. 
Ohs. 117. 2, and Ic. i. 232. 2—Ger. Em. 290. I—Park. 780. I—Pet. 11. 7 
— Matth. 506— Fuchs. 680 —J. B. ii. 1035— Trag. 262 — Lonic. i. 92. 2— 
Blackw. 1. 
{Root spindle-shaped, black. E.) Scape hollow, smooth, cylindrical, fragile, 
semitransparent, nearly a span high, bearing one large flower. Leaves 
all radical, varying from wing-cleft, in a very dry situation, to nearly 
entire in a moist one. Calyx , scales perfectly smooth. Seeds furrowed 
longitudinally, sharply toothed upwards. Down on a long pedicle ; rays 
simple. Woodw. The notches in the leaves hollowed out like the teeth 
in a large timber saw. Seeds flat, scored, prickly upwards. Blossom 
yellow, closing early in the afternoon. 
* (From 7r pnvYig, prone, and avOog, a flower; the blossom drooping or hanging down, E.) 
1* (From Aeow, a lion, and o§»f, a tooth; its jagged leaves resembling such. E.) 
