SYNGENESIA-POLYGAM.-^QU. Lapsana. 377 



3. H. radicata. Long-rooted Cat's-ear. 



Leaves runcinate, bluntish, rough. Stems branched, naked, 

 smooth. Flower-stalks scaly. Down of all the seeds 

 stalked. 



H. radicata. Linn. Sp. PL 1 140. mild. v. 3. 1 622. Fl. Br. 8 12. 



Engl. Boi. V. 12. <. 831. Curt. Lond.fasc.3. t. 52. Hook. Scot. 



234. Fl.Dan.t.lbO. 

 H. n.3. Hall. Hist. V. 1.3. 

 Hienicium longius radicatum. Rail Sijn. 165. Ger. Em. 298./. 



Lob. Ic. 238./. 

 H. dentis leonis folio obtuse niajus. Btnih. Pin. 127. Moris, v. 3. 



66. sect. 7. t. 4. f. 27. 

 H. tertiutn. Dod. Pempt. 630. f. 

 Rough Branched Dandelion. Petiv. H. Brit. t.W.f.W. 



In pastures and waste ground every where. 



Root brown externally, tapering, running deep into the ground ; 

 internally white and milky. Stems several, branched, spread- 

 ing, round, smooth, rather glaucous, about a foot high, hollow, 

 without leaves, except the small lanceolate scales, solitary un- 

 der each branch, might so be called j but they rather resemble 

 bracteas, and were it not for the close analogy of the last spe- 

 cies, whose stems are in part truly leafy, the present might be 

 thought to have only radical flower-stalks. The proper leaves 

 are numerous at the root, pressed close to the earth, choking 

 all plants within their reach, oblong, bluntish, runcinate, rough 

 with rigid hairs. Fl. large, bright yellow, solitary on terminal, 

 hollow, swelling stalks, clothed with small, scattered, close, awl- 

 shaped bracteas. Cahjx-scales roughish at the keel, with pale, 

 not glandular, bristles. Scales of the recept. thin, awl-shaped, 

 channelled. Seeds angular and rough. Down of all of them 

 stalked, feathery. 



380. LAPSANA. Nipple-wort. 



Linn. Gen. 405. Fl. Br. 842. Lam. t. 655. Gartn. t. 157. 



Lampsana. Jmss. 168. Tourn. t.272. 



Common Cal. double, ovate; outermost of a few small, short, 

 ovate or linear, scattered, close scales ; inner of rather 

 more numerous, linear, channelled, keeled, acute, nearly 

 equal, permanent ones. Cor. compound, of several im- 

 bricated, uniform, perfect, ligulate, broadish, abrupt, 5- 

 too\\\ei\ florets. JFz/r-r^w. capillary, extremely short. AritJi. 

 in a cylindrical tube. Ger/;?. obovate, small. Style scarcely 

 prominent. Stigmas spreading. Seed-vessel none, ex- 

 cept the permanent, converging, inner calyx. Seed ob- 



