THE DAISY FAMILY. 305 



18. Narrow-leaved Hawkweed — [Hieracium umbelldtum.) 

 Dry hedgebanks, rather rare. Chorlton and thereabouts. Bowdon, 

 near the Grange Farm. (Mr. Hunt.) Little Hulton. (R. H.) Booths- 

 town. (J. E.) Fl. July, August. 



Curtis, iii. 422 ; E. B. xxv. 1771 ; Baxter, iii. 105. 



19. Dandelion — [Ledntodon Taraxacum.) 



Where is it 7wt? Water alone forms no part of the territory of 

 this brilliant and flaring weed, which is in bloom more or less all the 

 year, but most profusely in earlj' summer. 



Curtis, i. 58 ; E. B. viii. 510 ; Baxter, iii. 103. 

 The name " Dandelion " is popularly applied to all the large yellow compositse 

 of the fields, but tliis is the only species to which it properly applies. If the 

 flower be gaudy and inelegant, nothing can be prettier than the globe of white- 

 plumed seeds which follows it, — " clocks " for the time-curious children, as they 

 blow the little ships adrift into the aerial sea. On the medicinal virtues of the 

 dandelion, see "Manchester Walks and Wild-flowers," chap. ii. 



20. Nipplewort — [Lapsdna communis.) 

 Hedgebanks and waysides, common everywhere. Fl. July, August. 



Annual. 



Curtis, i. 50; E. B. xii. 844; Baxter, ii. ISCt* 



21. Field Chicory — [Cichorium Intyhis^ 

 In cultivated and waste ground, where the soil is dry and light, 

 occasionally. Chorlton, Mobberley, Sale, Bowdon, and elsewhere in 

 that district, but not to be depended on. Plentiful in the lane lead- 

 ing from Astley to Irlam ; and by hundreds in a turnip-field at Tyl- 

 desley, in 1858, the seeds doubtless brought in with those of the crop, 

 and seemingly from a foreign country, since along with the fine azure 

 of the Cichorkim were mingled plants of Egyptian wheat, of an exotic 

 Ononis, one or two exotic species of Anthemis, and a beautiful exotic 

 Euphorbia, with a dichotomous stem and perfoliate leaves. (J. E.) 

 Fl. July, August. 



Curtis, ii. 270 ; E. B. viii. 539 ; Baxter, vi. 417. 



II.— FLOWERS THISTLE-FORM— (C2/?iarocei);iate.) 

 22. Burdock — {Arctium Lappa.) 

 Waste places and waysides, but not very common. Mobberley. 

 Hazle Grove. Near Biddings Brook, Lymm. Fl. July, August. 



Biennial. 



Curtis, ii. 275 ; E. B. xviii. 1228 ; Baxter, v. 333. 



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