128 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Herbs, with the leaves mostly radical. Anthodes solitary or 

 in a lax corymb, large or rather large. Plorets yellow. 



The name of this genus comes from two Greek words, viro (hupo), under, and xf^f^pos 

 {choiros), a pig, because swine are supposed to delight in certain species. 



Sub-Genus I.— EU-HYP0CH(EEIS. 



Hairs of the pappus in 2 rows, the outer ones shorter and not 

 plumose, the inner plumose. »^ 



SPECIES I— H YPOCHCERIS GLABRA. Linn. 



Plate DCCLXXXIX. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1251. 



Eeich. Ic. FI. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCXCVIII. Figs. 2, 3, 4. 



Annual. Leaves in a rosette, oblanceolate - strapshaped or 

 oblanceolate, sinuate - pinnatifid or dentate, glabrous or sub- 

 glabrous. Stems scape-like, usually numerous, slender, erect or 

 ascending, slightly branched. Peduncles elongated, slightly thick- 

 ened upwards, very sparingly furnished with bracts below the 

 anthodes, and often destitute of them. Pericline oblong-ovoid 

 in bud ; phyllaries few, glabrous, the innermost ones about as 

 long as the florets, the outer ones adpressed. Achenes muri- 

 cated, the inner ones produced into a beak at the apex, the 

 outer ones without a beak, or more rarely with a beak. 



Var. a, genuina. 



Achenes of the circumference without a beak, those of the 

 centre with a beak as long as themselves. 



Var. ^, JBalbisii, 

 H. Balbisii, Lois, Fl. Gall. Vol. II. p. 180. 



All the achenes furnished with beaks. 



In sandy cultivated fields and waste places. Rather rare, 

 and sparingly distributed over England ; in Scotland occurring 

 in the counties of Ayr, Eorfar, and Moray. 



England, Scotland. Annual. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Leaves spreading in a rosette, varying much in the depth of the 

 dentation or sinuation. Elowering-stems 3 to 18 inches high, com- 

 monly leafless, but sometimes with 1 or 2 small sessile leaves. 



