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A R C T I U M Bardanas
Woolly-headed Burdock.
SYNGENESIA Polygamia-cequalis.
Gen. Char. Cal. globose, each of its scales terminating
in an incurved hook.
Spec. Char. Leaves heartshaped, without prickles,
nearly entire, on footstalks. Calyx interwoven
with cottony down.
Syn. Arctium Bardana. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 1632.
Donn. Cant. ed. 5. 1Q3 .
A . Lappa /3. Linn. Sp. PI. 1143. FI. Dan. t. 642.
Lappa major montana, Capitulis tomentosis. Rail
Syn. 1 9 7 .
P r o f e s s o r WILLDENOW, whose recent death we have
to lament, has asserted in his Sp. PI. that the Woolly-headed
Burdock has often been raised by him from seed, and continued
• constant to its characters. We therefore think it entitled to a
place in our work; The fine cobweb down entangled amongst its
calyx-scales distinguishes it from our t, 1228; The leaves
moreover are said to be more entire. It is a very common plant,
as well as the other, by way-sides and among rubbish. Ray
distinguishes several varieties of each of these species. His
Lappa major montana, capitulis minorilus, rotundiorilius, et
magis tomentosis, a north-country variety of the present, we
have just received from Mr. Edmund Goodenough, son of the
Lord Bishop of Carlisle. The heads are smaller and more depressed
; leaves quite entire;
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