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428 SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA ^QUALIS.
ferratures. The figure of thofe leaves is various.
Sometimes they are intire, or only indented on
the edges. Sometimes they have one pair of fa-
gittate or cordate pinncs at the bafe. At other
times they are pinnated half-way down to the rib,
with triangular reverfed pinn^, the extreme
one being largeft, and all of them edged with
foft fpinulce. The peduncles and calyces are
covered with yellow grofs hairs. The flowers are
large and yellow, and turn always towards the
fun. The feeds are crown'd with a foft, fimple,
fefTile down.
SONCHUS pedunculis tomentofis, calycibus gla-
bris. Sp. pi. in 6. {Ger. em. 292./. 3^4. Pet.
t. 14./. (^ 9, 10. Moris, hifi.f. 7. /. 3./. 1^2.
Blackwell /. 130. opt.)
Common Sow-Thiftle. Anglis.
In wafte places and cultivated grounds frequent.
G. VI-VIII.
The ftalk is fucculent, fiftular, and a cubit high or
more. The leaves are tender, of a very variable
figure, being fometimes intire, and fpmetimes
jagged or pinnated half way down to the rib;
their edges furrounded with foft prickly ferra-
tures. At their bafe they embrace the ftalk, and
are prefied clofe to it. The upper leaves are
always of an oval-lanceolate figure, and intire ;
but ferrulated en the edges. The ftalk is branch-
ed tov/ards the top, and forms a kind of umbel
of