130 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



the achenes ; the exterior ones with a beak usually less than their 

 own length. Plant dull-green, with the leaves commonly hispid, 

 and the stems glabrous towards the top. 



A form with glabrous leaves has occurred in Sandown Bay, Isle 

 of Wight. 



Long-rooted Cafs-ear. 



French, Porcelle d, longues Racines. German, Langvmrzeliges Ferhelkratd. 



Sub-Genus II.— ACHYEOPIIOUUS. Scop. 

 Hairs of the pappus in one row, all plumose. 



SPECIES III — HYPOCHCERIS MACULATA. Linn. 



Plate DCCXCI. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 583. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCXCVI. Fig. 1, 



Perennial. Leaves oblong-elliptical or oblanceolate-elliptical, 

 repand or dentate or sinuate-dentate, hispid. Stems scape-like, 

 solitary or few, stout, erect, simple or with 1 or 2 branches, not 

 thickened upwards, very sparingly furnished with bracts (more 

 often destitute of them) beneath the anthodes. Pericline globular 

 in bud ; phyllaries numerous, entire, linear-lanceolate, the outer 

 ones hairy on the back and adpressed, the middle and inner ones 

 woolly-pubescent on the margins, the latter much shorter than 

 the florets. Achenes with elevated transverse lines, all beaked. 



On chalky and limestone hills. Pare. The Lizard, Cornwall ; 

 Ormes Head, North Wales ; Humphrey Head, Lancashire ; Devil's 

 Ditch and Gogmagog Hills and Hildersham, Cambridge ; Suffolk. 



England. Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Leaves less divided than in the last species, generally spotted 

 with dark-purple and usually all radical, or the stem with 1 or 2 

 small leaves. Anthodes 1 to 4, very large. Pericline hemispherical, 

 campanulate in flower ; the outer phyllaries with bristly hairs on 

 the back. Plorets dark-yellow. Achenes scarcely muricated, all 

 rather shortly beaked, but the beaks of the exterior ones shorter 

 than those of the central florets. Plant deep-green, hispid on the 

 leaves, and sparingly so on the stem. 



Spotted Cctfs-ear. 



French, Porcelle Tachee. German, Gejleckter Hachelhopf. 



