DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS 149 



yealovve like those of Lampsana. The seed is small browne some- 

 what longe, hairie at the toppe, not inclosed in downe, but within 

 small headsj made of small short crooked hairie sharpe pointed 

 husks, not exceedinge half an ynch in lenght, which open when the 

 seed is ripe and spread abroad like larkes clawes starr fashion, and 

 not before. The root is small hairie, full of milkie iuyce, as is also 

 the whole plant, and perisheth when the seed is ripe. — MS. f. 101 ; 

 Ger. emac. 1625. 



Rhagadiolus ednlis Gaertn. 

 Hieracium stellatum Boelij. 33 Aug. 1621 



This plant is in round, hairy, straked, branched stalks, and longe, 

 rough, blunt indented leaves like to Hieracium falcatum^hut scarce 

 a foot high : the flowers are also yellow three times smaller : which 

 past, there succeed long crooked slender sharpe pointed cods or 

 huskes, neere an inch long, spreading abroad, star-fashion, wherein 

 a long seed is contained : this hath no heads or woolly down like 

 any of the rest, but onely the said crooked coddes which doe at the 

 first spread abroad. The root is small, threddie, full of milkie iuice, 

 as is also the whole plant and it perisheth when the seed is ripe. — 

 MS. f. loi ; Ger. emac. 1635. 



Tolpis barbata Gaertn. 

 Hieracium medio nigrum flore maiore Boelij. 33 Aug. 1631 



This hath at the first spreading upon the ground many long 

 narrow, green, smooth leaves bluntly indented about the edges, like 

 those of Hieracium falcatufn, but smaller : amongst which rise up 

 three, foure, or more, small, smooth, straked round stalks, divided 

 into other branches, which grow longer than the stalks themselves 

 leaning or trayling neere the ground : the flowers grow on the tops of 

 the stalks, but one together, composed of many pale yellow leaves, 

 the middle of each flower being of a blackish purple colour. — MS. 

 f. 10 1 ; Ger. emac. 1625. 



[In last line but one the MS. has ' yealowe flowers ', doubtless rightly 

 corrected to ' yellow leaves ' by the editor.] 



Tolpis imibellata /3 minor Lange. 

 Hieracium medio nigrum flore minore Boelij. [33 Aug. 1631] 



This is altogether like the last before described in stalkes and 

 leaves : the flowers are also of a blackish purple in the middle, but 

 they are three times smaller. — MS. f. loi ; Ger. emac. 1635. 



Hieracium intybaceuin L. 

 Hieratium intybaceum. [33 Aug. 1621] 



This sendeth forth from one small root many rough leaves like 



