Mr. C. C. Babington on the British species 0/ Arctium. 375 



heads nearly sessile ; each branch usually ending in a cluster of 

 three heads. Its leaves are apparently shorter in proportion to 

 their width. It is distinguished from the following plant by 

 possessing much larger ovate (not spherical and stalked) heads ; 

 from A. pubens by its closed and nearly sessile heads ; from the 

 two preceding by the racemose arrangement of the heads even at 

 the top of the primary stem. 



Its distribution is unknown to me, with the exception that I 

 have gathered it near Berwick-upon-Tweed, and Mr. Newbould 

 at Hope in Derbyshire. Mr. Baker states (Suppl. to the Fl. of 

 Yorkshire, 85) that he finds it frequently in Yorkshire, but I 

 have not seen any specimens of his plant. 



It flowers in August, but, like all the other species, may some- 

 times be found in that state in July. 



As I do not know that M. Lange has published the cha- 

 racters of his plant, it appears to be desirable to insert the fol- 

 lowing extract from his letter, dated March 1849 : — 



" A. intermedium calath. : adultis ovatis, squamis exterioribus 

 subulatis viridibus apice stramineis interioribus lanceolatis apice 

 purpureis. It is the highest of all the species. Plant fresh 

 green. Stem and head purple brown tinged, the heads doubly 

 greater than the little form [A. minus). It grows principally in 

 woods. 



*^ A. wimi^ calath. : adultis depresso-globosis, squamis omnibus 

 subulatis cano- viridibus exterioribus apice stramineis. The plant 

 low, pale and grayish green. Open ground.^^ 



It is probable that similar characters to the above are to be 

 found in that botanist^s ' Danish Flora,^ which I have not seen, 

 and which is written in the language of Denmark. 



4. A. minus (Schkuhr) ; heads racemose shortly stalked spherical 

 slightly contracted at the mouth in fruit slightly webbed 

 (greenish), phyllaries falling short of the florets subulate, inner 

 row equalling the others, sub cylindrical upper part of the florets 

 about equalling the lower part. 



A. minus, Schk. Handb. iii. 49 ; Fries, Nov. 263. 



A. Lappa a, Linn. Fl. Suec. ed. 2. 277, teste Fries. 



A. Lappa, Curt. Fl. Lond. ii. 173 ; Eng. Bat. t. 1228. 



Lappa minor, BeCand. Fl. Fr. iv. 77 ; Kochy Syn. 463 ; Gren. et 



Godr. Fl. Fr. ii. 280 ; Reichenb. Icon. Fl. Germ. xv. 53. t. 811. 

 Lappa major capitulis parvis glabris, Bill, in Raii Syn. 197. 3. 

 Lappa major montana, capitulis minoribus, rotundioribus et magis 



tomentosis, Raii Syn. 197. 5. 

 Small-headed Burdock, Pet. 23. 3. 

 Small woolly-headed Burdock, Pet. 23. 4. 



Stem and petioles finely mealy. A smaller plant than either 



