906 SYNGENESIA. iEQUALIS. Seeeatula. 
white soft bristles. Fruit-stalks axillary. Calyx scales green and fleshy 
at the base, purple towards the top, keeled, ending in long stiff awns, 
yellow at the hooked points. Blossom , tube white ; bordered. Anthers 
bluish purple. Style white. Summits expanding, white. Seeds oblong, 
angular, somewhat flatted. ( Stem nearly four feet high, upright, with 
wide-spreading branches, leafy, cylindrical, furrowed, slightly hairy. FI. 
Brit. Leaves larger than those of any other British plant, unless Butter¬ 
bur. E.) 
Common Burdock or Burr. (Irish: Meacan tovach. Welsh: Cedow - 
rack; Cribaur bleiddiau. Gaelic: Mac-andog-ha; Suircean suirich. E.) 
Road sides, rubbish, and ditch banks. B. July—Aug.* 
Var. 2. Heads roundish, rather large, brownish, purple, interwoven with 
whitish cotton. Blossom purple. Stem dark red. Ray. 
(E. Bot. 2478. E.)— Mill. Ic. 159—J Blackw. 117. 2— FI. Dan . 642—PeL23. 
5—Matth. 11. 155— H. Ox. vii. 32. 2. 
(A. Layma (3. Linn. var. Huds. Curt. Hook. Grev. A. Bardana. Willd. 
Sm. E.) 
Road sides and rubbish. 
Var. 3. Heads quite smooth, very large, an inch in diameter, green. 
Blossom purplish. 
New Cross, Kent. Ray. 
Var. 4. Heads small, smooth, of the size of a hazel nut, broadish at the 
base, brown. Blossom purple. Ray. 
Pet. 23. 3. 
Var. 5. Heads the size and colour of those of var. 4, rounder, brown or 
purplish, and with a considerable quantity of cotton. Ray, 
Pet. 23. 4— J. B. iii. 571. 1. 
Near Halifax, Yorkshire. Ray. 
Var. 6. With leafy heads. Pluk. 
Pet. 23. 2. 
About London. Aug. Pet. Dill. 
(In reference to the above varieties Prof. Hooker observes: ff We have 
little hesitation in pronouncing them to be variations of the same species, 
having remarked, in a small compass of ground, some plants which had 
the calyx quite smooth; some thickly covered with cobweb-like fila¬ 
ments, and others in all the intermediate states.” E.) 
SERRAT'ULA.-f* Calyx nearly cylindrical, tiled: scales not 
spinous : (Down permanent. E.) 
* Before the flowers appear, the stems, stripped of their rind, may be boiled and eaten 
like asparagus. When raw they are palatable with oil and vinegar. A decoction of the 
roots is esteemed by some very sensible physicians equal, if not superior, to that of 
sarsaparilla, in rheumatic affections. (The seeds are recommended as diuretic: and are 
acceptable to birds. E.) Boys catch bats, by throwing the prickly heads into the air. 
These hooked points tend to the dispersion of the seed, by adhering to the coats of animals, 
&c. E.) Cows and goats eat it. Sheep and horses refuse it. Swine are not fond of it. 
Phaleena Humuti feeds upon the roots, and the Mottled Orange Moth upon the stems: 
Linn, (within which the chrysalis may be found about the month of August, especially in 
stunted specimens. E.) 
t (Diminutive of serra , a saw; from its serrated foliage. E-> 
