THE DAISY FAMILY. 301 



In regard to their fruits, the Manchester Compositse may be classed 

 as follows : — 



I. — Achenium entirely destitute of crown. 



Com-maiigold, 

 Chamomile, 

 Yarrow, 

 Sneezewort. 



Nipplewort, 



Wormwood, 



Mugwort, 



Daisy, 



Ox-eye, 

 n. — Achenium with a minute membranous border. 



Chicory, I Fever-few, 



Tansy, May-weed. 



III. — Achenium with two or four serrated bristles. 



Bidens. (Fig. 165.) 

 IV. — Achenium crowned with a sessile plume. (Fig. 162.) 

 A. — Hairs white. 



Thistle, Groundsel, " 



Lyrate Lettuce, Eagwort, 



Sow-thistle (snowy), Butterbur, 



Crepis, Coltsfoot (snowy). 



B. — Hairs taivny or broivnish. 



Hawkweed, , Cudweed, 



Corn-flower, Burdock, 



Hard-heads, I Hawkbit. 



V. — Achenium lengthened into a shaft, with a plume upon the summit. 

 (Fig. 163.) 



Goatsbeard, Dandelion. 



Cat's-ear, | 



In some cases sessile and shafted plumes occur together, as in the 

 smooth cat's-ear ; and occasionally plumed and plumeless achenia, as 

 in the hairy hawkbit. 



HABITATS AND LOCALITIES. 

 I.— FLOWEES CHICOEY-LIKE— (Sub-family Cichordcece.) 



1. Yellow Goatsbeard — {Tragopdgon pratmsis.) 

 In meadows, among the mowing grass. Plentiful about Agecroft, 

 Jackson's Boat, Reddish, Gatley Carrs, below Bowdon old Church, 

 and in the fields by the BoUin, between Ashley and Cotterill. On the 

 railway banks between Stockport and Cheadle Station, just after 

 leaving the tunnel, abundant. Fl. June. Biennial. 

 E. B. ^ii. 434 ; Baxter, v. 390. 



The lark, when it comes to reveille the early botanist, is not sooner with its 

 sweet song than the petals are to expand ; and by six o'clock, when most other 



