158 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



round the exterior achenes, downy within ; exterior ones lax. Ex- 

 terior achenes with a beak shorter than the phyllaries ; central ones 

 with the beak as long as, or longer, than the phyllaries. Pappus 

 pure-white, of soft silky hairs, much exceeding the phyllaries. 



In chalky places and on shingle and railway banks. E-are. It 

 occurs in Sussex, Kent, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge, and 

 Herefordshire. It is abundant on the shino-le between Walmer 

 Castle and Kingsdown, Kent, which is the only station in whicli I 

 have seen it growing. *; 



England. Annual or Biennial. Summer and Autumn. 



Leaves chiefly radical. Stem 9 inches to 2 feet high, erect when 

 solitary, but often much branched from the base when the central 

 branch-stem, the others spreading-ascending, and curving upwards. 

 Branches all terminating in anthodes, which are corymbosely 

 arranged; but the peduncles are so long and remote from each 

 other, that the inflorescence loses much of the corymbose character, 

 and might better be described as solitary anthodes upon corym- 

 bosely-arranged branches. Pericline ovoid in bud, when it hangs 

 down. Anthodes f inch across, bright-yellow. Achenes orange- 

 brown, the exterior ones with a rather stout beak, not extending 

 to the tip of the phyllary in which it is enclosed, and in which it 

 remains even after the phyllaries spread like a star ; inner ones with 

 much longer beaks, so that the whole of the pappus projects beyond 

 the tips of the phyllaries ; all with numerous fine rugose slender ribs. 

 Leaves densely pubescent ; pericline hoary, from the abundance of 

 grey hairs, which are sometimes intermixed with glandular ones. 



Stinking Hawk'' s-beard, 



French, Crepide Fetide. German, Stinhende Grundfeste. 



SPECIES II.— CUE PIS TARAXACIPOLIA. ThuU. 



Plate DCCCXVI. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1913. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCCXXXVII. Fig. 2. 



Barkliausia tavaxacifolia, D. C. Prod. Vol. VII. p. 154. 



Borkhausia taraxacifolia, Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 215. 



Biennial. Stem branched, chiefly in the upper half, and often 

 also from the base, sparingly leafy. Leaves runcinate- or lacerate- 

 pinnatifid. Anthodes erect in bud, in corymbs terminating the 

 stem and branches. Peduncles rather long, straight or only 

 slightly incurved, not thickened upwards. Phyllaries hairy or 

 nearly glabrous, the inner ones slightly indurated in fruit, not 



