26 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Derbyshire, Berwick-on-Tweed, Bembridge, Isle of Wight, and 



Edinburgh. 



England, Scotland. Biennial. Autumn. 



I am unacquainted with this plant, and therefore give it only 

 on Professor Babington's authority. It seems to differ from A. in- 

 termedium only in the longer and narrower radical leaves and the 

 shortly-stalked anthodes. I have seen but a single dried specimen, 

 collected at Llanberis by the Bev. W. W. Newbould, which has not 

 the root-leaves. 



Narrow-leaved Burdock. 



Sub Species III.— Arctium eu-minus. 



Plate DCCII. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. DCCCXI. Fig. 1. 

 Bab. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. iii. Vol. XV. p. 11, and ser. ii. Vol. XVII. p. 375 ; Man. 

 Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 187. 



Badical leaves oblong-ovate, cordate, coarsely dentate. An- 

 thodes racemose, all shortly stalked or subsessile. Pericline 

 small, ovate-ovoid, arachnoid or glabrous ; phyllaries shorter than 

 the florets. 



In waste places. Common, and generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial. Autumn. 



Stem 2 to 4 feet high ; branches generally slightly drooping. 

 Eadical leaves with the teeth more acute than in any of the pre- 

 ceding forms ; petioles with a large hollow. Anthodes much smaller, 

 ^ to f inch across, truly racemose, or sub-spicate-racemose ; phyl- 

 laries green or tinged with purple, more slender, less spreading and 

 shorter in proportion to the florets than in any of the other Burdocks. 

 Achenes rather narrower and generally darker in colour, with the 

 black spots almost confluent. 



Lesser Burdock. 



G^^A^ro rj.— SAUSSUREA. B.C. 



Pericline of imbricated entire blunt or mucronate phyllaries, 

 not appendiculate or spinous. Elorets all equal, perfect. Eilaments 

 free, glabrous ; anthers furnished at the base with two woolly fili- 

 form appendages, and longly acuminated at the summit. Achenes 

 sub-cylindrical, finely striate; epigynous disk with a spreading 

 border, which bears the external row of the pappus. Pappus 

 double, the external row persistent, of denticulated hairs, the 



