302 THE DAISY FAMILY. 



flowers are still folded, this one has opened the full disk of its delicate bloom. 

 By ten or eleven, though the sun be hot and bright, the blossoms begin to close, 

 and in the afternoon the plant is discoverable only by its leaves. The heads of 

 fruit resemble those of the dandeUon, but are often four or five inches in diameter, 

 and the individual fruits the finest examples that I am acquainted with, of the 

 shafted and plumed achenium. From the base to the crown they frequently 

 measure an inch and a half, while the rays are interwoven, and form a beautiful 

 concave and circular net. The goatsbeards are distinguished from our other 

 wild composites, not only by the grassy form of their foliage, but by the basket 

 being as long or longer than the florets. They are subject to the attacks of a 

 minute parasitic fungus, which converts the unopened head of flowers into a mass 

 of purple dust. 



2. Haiey Hatvkbit — {Thr'mcta hirta.) 

 On dry banks, in gravelly fields, and on moors. Hale Moss. Com- 

 mon about Wilmslow. Fl. July, August. 



Curtis, iii. 423 (as Leontodon hirtum) ; E. B. viii. 555 (as Hedypnois hirta) ; 

 Baxter, v. 323. 



3. Rough Hawkbit — {Apdrgia hispida.) 

 Meadows and pastures, especially near the banks of rivers, common. 



Abundant about Bowdon. Fl. June, July. 



Curtis, ii. 348 (as Leontodon hispidum) ; E.B. viii. 554 (as Hedypnois hispida); 



Baxter, iv. 318. 



The bristles upon the leaves, both of this species and the preceding, are forked 



like the letter Y- 



4. Autumnal Hawkbit — [Apdrgia autumndlis.) 

 Fields and waste places, abundant everywhere. Fl. August. 

 E. B. xii. 830 (as Hedypnois autumnalis). 



5. Smooth Cat's-ear — [HypochcBris glabra,) 

 Occasionally at Bowdon. Fl. July, August. Annual. 

 Curtis, i. 198 ; E. B. viii. 575. 



6. Common Cat's-ear — {Hypocharis radicdta.) 

 Meadows, pastures, and hcdgebanks, wherever there is grass, and 

 the ground is dry. Fl. July. 



Curtis, i. 107 ; E. B. xii. 831 ; Baxter, vi. 400. 



7, Lyrate Lettuce — {Lactiica murdlis.) 

 In woods and shady doughs, frequent ; also upon old walls. Abun- 

 dant in the woods at Styal, and in the Reddish Valley. Ashley 



