SYNGENESIA— POLYGAM.-^QU. Hypochceris. 375 



yellow, closing in the afternoon. Cal. rough with black as well 

 as white bristles. Scales oftherecep^ac/elong, narrowband mem- 

 branous. Seeds, according to Linnaeus, wrinkled. 

 Linnaeus, as well as Haller, confounded this species with H. helve- 

 tica of Jacquin, Hallcr's n. 2; but the real maculata was also 

 found in Switzerland by Mr. Davall. 



2. H. glabra. Smooth Cat's-ear. 



Nearly smooth. Calyx ohlong, regularly imhricated. Stems 

 branched, somewhat leafy. Leaves toothed or sinuated. 

 Down of the marginal seeds sessile. 



H. glabra. Linn. Sp. PL 1 140. IVilld. r. .3. 1621. Fl. Br. 841. 



Engl. Bot. V. 8. i. 575. Curt. Lond.fasc. 3. t. 53. Hook. Scot. 



234. Fl.Dan.t.42A. 

 H.n.*3. IJall.Nomencl.X. 

 Hieracium parvum in arenosis nascens, seminum pappis densius 



radiatis. RaiiSijn. 160. 

 H. alterum laevius minimum. Column. Ecphr. v. 2. 28. t, 27./. 2. 



On heaths, and gravelly ground j also in arable land where the 

 soil is sandy. 



On the gravelly grounds near Middleton, Warwickshire. Ray. In 

 Bedfordshire. Abbot. On Cawston heath, Norfolk. Rev. H. 

 Brijant. In turnip fields about Norwich. Mr. Crowe. Under 

 Greenwich park wall, on Blackheath. Curtis. 



Annual. .June — August. 



Herb milky and bitter, extremely variable in luxuriance, of a bright 

 shining green, and almost perfectly smooth. Stems numerous, 

 hollow, smooth ; the first or central one simple, straight, leaf- 

 less, bearing a solitary flower j the rest rather spreading, or 

 partly recumbent, branched, wavy, slightly leafy, from G to 12 

 or IS inches higli. Z.e«re.v numerous at the root, oblong, or 

 tongue-shaped, deeply toothed, or slightly sinuated, occasion- 

 ally fringed or partially hairy ; those on the stem smaller, alter- 

 nate, sessile. Ft. on terminal stalks, solitary, small, bright yel- 

 low, open in the morning only. Cal. slender, smooth, glaucous 

 or purplish ; the scales flat, regularly imbricated, finally re- 

 flexed. Seeds slender, dark brown, finely striated, rougli like the 

 doicn and its stalky v.'liich latter part is wanting in tliose of the 

 circumference. Scales of the receptacle very thin and membra- 

 nous, with tajHT ])oints on a level with the seed-down, deciduous. 



Ilallcr long overlooked this sjiecies in Switzerland, nor was it at 

 all well known to Hritisji botanists till Mr. Courtis's excellent 

 figure and deseiii)ti()n a|)peared. In the early j)art of the day, 

 turnip fields are visii)ly bespangled with its bright l)lossoms ■ 

 but after they close it is less readily observable. The synonym 

 (.f Colunina, though cittd l)y Hay. lias l)ecn generally neglected. 



