350 SYNGENESIA— POLYGAMIA-iEQU. Apargia. 



becomes diminutive from drought and starvation only, retaining, 

 in every slate, the proper character of its calyx. 



2. L. paliistris. Marsh Dandelion. 



Outer scales of the calyx shorter, imbricated, ovate. Leaves 



sinuated and toothed, not quite smooth. 

 L. palustre. Lyons Fasc. 48. Fl. Br. 823. Engl. Bot. v. 8. t. 553. 



Relh. 307. Hook. Scot. 227. 

 L. Taraxacon. With. 679. Hull 173. 

 L. Taraxacum S. Huds. 339. 

 Hedypnois paludosa. Scop. Cam. v. 2. 100. i. 48. 



In low boggy meadows. 



On Hinton and Teversham moors, Cambridgeshire. Relhan. On 

 the Lower Common at Heydon, Norfolk, Rev. H. Bryant. In 

 several places about Edinburgh and Glasgow. Hooker. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Rather smaller than the general size of the foregoing, from which 

 it is doubtless very distinct. The leaves are less runcinate than 

 in any of its most starved varieties, and are frequently besprin- 

 kled, or fringed, with longish hairs j sometimes however they 

 are quite smooth. Outer calyx constantly and essentially dif- 

 ferent from every variety of the last, consisting of ovate, pointed 

 scales, regularly imbricated and erect, or close-pressed, the inner 

 ones gradually longest, and full half the length of the inner ca- 

 lyx. In seed all the scales are reflexed, like the former. Cor. 

 bright yellow; the ex ternalj^orefs striated or stained underneath 

 with red. Head of seeds about half as broad as that of L. Ta- 

 raxacum. 



The Rev. Mr. Hemsted has found this species undergo no change 

 when propagated by seed, 



Haller misquotes this plant under his Picris n. 26, which is Apar- 

 gia hastilis, Leontodon hastile of Linnseus. 



376. APARGIA. Hawkbit. 



Schreb. Gen. 527. Sm. in Rees's Cycl.v. 35, after Thrincia. Prodr. 



Fl. GrcBc. Sibth. v. 2, 130, Comp. ed. 4, 1 27. 

 Hedypnois. Huds. 340. Fl. Br. 823. 

 Leontodon. Juss. 170. 

 Thrincia, Roth Catal. v. 1. 97. 



Taraxaconoides. Vaill. Mini, de I'Ac. des Sc. 700,/, 2 1 . 

 Virea, Gcertn. t. 159. 



Common Cal. double ; the innermost oblong, imbricated, of 

 several linear, parallel, unequal, incumbent scales; outer- 

 most very small, irregularly scattered. Cor. compound, 

 of numerous, imbricated, uniform, perfect, ligulate, ab- 



