454 Mr. BaBiNGTON on several new and imperfectly understood 
Hedypnois tectorum. Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. 2.341. 
C. polymorpha 8. virens. Wallr. l.c. Bluff: et Fingerh. Fl. Germ. ii. 300. 
Roth, Manuale Bot. l. c. 
C. virens, var. (*). Pers. Syn. ii. 377.? 
Common Hawkbeard. Pet. Herb. xii. 6. 
8. pinnatifida. Radical leaves broadly ovate, blunt, remotely dentate, cauline 
ones linear-lanceolate, very deeply divided into numerous long linear seg- 
ments, the uppermost nearly entire, sagittate; stem erect, branched above. 
C. pinnatifida. Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. 1604. 
C. virens. Hoffm. Fl. Germ. ii. 281. 
Succory Hawkbeard. Pet. Herb. xii. 7. 
y. stricta. Wallr. Leaves linear-lanceolate, remotely dentate, cauline ones 
slightly sagittate ; stem erect, branched above. 
C. stricta. Scop. ii. 99. ** DC. Cat. Hort. Monspel. 99." 
C. polymorpha g. stricta. Wallr. l. c. 
. Buddles Hawkbeard. Pet. Herb. xii. 5. 
5. diffusa. Wallr. Leaves remotely dentate, sinuate or runcinate, cauline 
ones linear, nearly entire, hardly sagittate; stem diffuse, branching at 
the base. 
C. tectorum var. 4. With. Bot. Arr. iii. 690. 
C. diffusa. * DC. Cat. Hort. Monspel. 99.” Fl. Fr. v. 448. Spreng. Syst. 
ii. 634. Bot. Gall. i. 2999. Bluff. et Fingerh. l. c. 
C. virens. Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. 1604. Pers. Syn. ii. 376. 
C. polymorpha y. diffusa. Wallr. l.c. Roth, l. c. 
Dandelion Hawkbit. Pet. Herb. xii. 4.? 
. Stem furrowed, smooth, purplish; in var. «., B., y., upright, branched above, 
1 or 2 feet high: in 6. branched at the base, the branches diffuse, often 
prostrate ; leaves glabrous, very variable in size and form; the radical 
ones narrowing below into a winged petiole, which is generally purple on 
its under side, simply toothed, runcinate or runcinato-dentate, usually 
rounded at the end, sometimes acute; cauline ones in var. a. slightly 
runcinate, the upper ones nearly entire, sagittate: in var. 6B. linear-lan- 
ceolate, deeply divided into numerous, long, linear, patent segments, the 
few uppermost nearly entire, sagittate: in var. y. broadly linear-lanceolate, 
