. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 2. Arctium Lappa L. Great Bur, Burdock or Clotbur. Fig. 4634. Arctium Lappa L. Sp. PI. 816. 1753. Lappa major Gaertn. Fruct. & Sem. 2: 379. pi. 162. 1802. Stem much branched, 4°-9° high. Leaves thin, broadly ovate, pale and tomentose-canescent beneath, obtuse, entire, repand or dentate, mostly cordate, the lower often 18' long; petioles solid, deeply furrow
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 2. Arctium Lappa L. Great Bur, Burdock or Clotbur. Fig. 4634. Arctium Lappa L. Sp. PI. 816. 1753. Lappa major Gaertn. Fruct. & Sem. 2: 379. pi. 162. 1802. Stem much branched, 4°-9° high. Leaves thin, broadly ovate, pale and tomentose-canescent beneath, obtuse, entire, repand or dentate, mostly cordate, the lower often 18' long; petioles solid, deeply furrowed; heads clustered or subcorymbose, sometimes long-peduncled, l'-ii' broad; bracts of the involucre glabrous or nearly so, their spines all spreading, the inner ones equalling or exceeding the flowers; corolla-tube longer than the limb. In waste places, New Brunswick and Ontario to southern New York, and locally in the interior. Not nearly as com- mon as the next species in the Middle States. Naturalized from Europe. Other names are cockle-bur, cockle-button, cuckold-dock, hurr-bur, stick-button, hardock, bardane, beg- gar's-buttons. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New York, Scribner
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