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Serratiila tinctoria L. 5. A very large patch in Cople}^ Wood, 

 near Somerton. 10. York's Lane, Chevvton Mendip ; also in meadows 

 near Litton, Tucker. 



JPicris echioides L, 2. Minehead and Selworthy, Hadden. 

 Crepis taraxacifolia Thuill. 2. Plentiful at Poiiock, Hadden. 

 4. Staple Fitzpaine, on the Lias, 10. Chewton Mendip, Tucker. 



^ILieracium grandidens Dahlst. 1. In good quantity on sunny 

 railway-cuttings, a little east of East Anstey Station ; extending into 

 V. c. 4. N. Devon, As this grows in profusion on Sheep wash Hill, 

 between Molland and Twitchen, only a few miles westward, it should 

 bn found under less artificial conditions in S.W. Somerset. New for 

 the County. A well-marked species. Koot-leaves dark green and 

 glabrous above, hairy beneath ; with numerous broad teeth, subobtuse, 

 apieulate. Stem-leaf one, small, or reduced to a bract. Heads very 

 black-glandular, epilose. Styles livid. Ligules glabrous. It comes 

 nearest to H. serratifrons Almq., var. Cinderella Ley ; but tliat has 

 different foliage and much greyer heads. Large exam})les attain a 

 height of 30 inches. 



^H. mutahile Ley ( Journ. Bot., 1909 ; H. acroleucum, var. 

 mufahile Ley, ^;r/</s). In several places by the Barle between Hawk- 

 ridge and Dulverton, and on roadside banks near the latter village. 

 Xot recorded outside AVales ; but I now suspect that this, rather tlian 

 H. sciaphihini, was the Dulverton plant mentioned in Fl. Som. as 

 " typical vulgatuni " — from which it differs much in foliage and head- 

 clothing. 



H. cacuminatuni Dahlst. 5, Sunny railway embankment, near 

 Somerton, agreeing closely with my herbarium-plants so named, I 

 believe that specimens found by me at Porlock Weir in J907, and 

 taken for H. sciapliilum, are the same thing. This is not described 

 in W, R, Linton's British Hieracia ; so a brief account of the 

 Somerton specimens may not be out of place : — Often tall and strong 

 (a yard or more high). Leaves all subsimilar, lanceolate, sharply 

 toothed (upper part entire), acute, ciliate, thinly hairy above, with 

 many white bulbous-based hairs beneath ; veins conspicuous. Stem- 

 leaves several, alternate, disposed syimnetrically. Heads many, 

 densely black-glandular and tloccose, as are the peduncles, epilose. 

 Phyllaries rather broad; outer bluntish, inner acute, with scarlous 

 edges. Ligules deep golden yellow; tips strongly ciliate. It ap- 

 proaches the diapliantim-<^YO\\\). 



H. horeale Fr. 1. Dulverton. The type is much less plentiful 

 in the Barle Yalley than a plant with greener, softly hairy heads, and 

 livid or livescent (not sooty) styles, which Mr. Linton agrees in 

 referring to var. ^Hervieri Arvet-Touvet ; apparently new for 

 Somerset. 



Hijpocliaeris glabra L. 2. Hillside above Bossington, Hadden. 



Leontodon nudicaule Banks & Solander {hirtum L.). 10. Com- 

 mon at Chewton Mendip, Tucker. 



Taraxacum erytlirospermum Andrz. 2. Summit of Dunkery 

 (1700 feet), Hadden. 



Lacfuca muralis Fresen. 13. Chewton Mendip, Tucker. I 

 think that I saw it there in 1883. 



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