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COMPOSITE. 



fruits slender, all equally long-beaked. — Calcareous soils ; local. — 

 Fl. June, July. Biennial. 



3.^ C. setosa. — Occurring as an introduced plant, chiefly in 

 clover-fields, is hispid, i — 3 feet high; stem erect, branched from 

 the base, angular, furrowed, and leafy ; upper leaves large, 

 sagittate ; peduncles slender, stiff, deeply grooved, not thickened 

 above ; heads erect when in bud ; fruits slender, all equally long- 

 beaked. — Fl. July, August. 

 Annual or biennial. 



4. C. capilldris (Smooth 

 Hawk's - beard). — A variable 

 plant, 6 in. to 3 feet in height, 

 glabrous below ; stem much 

 branched, furrowed ; upper 

 leaves linear, sagittate ; heads 

 numerous, sub-corymbose, \ — f 

 in. across, yellow ; outer bracts 

 adpressed, linear, inner ones 

 smooth within ; fruit not 

 beaked ; pappus silky. — Waste 

 ground and cottage-roofs ; com- 

 mon. — Fl. June — September. 

 Annual. 



5. C. biennis (Biennial 

 Hawk's-beard). — A stout hispid 

 plant, resembling C. taraxaci- 

 folia, but not red-stained ; stem 

 I — 4 feet high, channelled; 

 leaves large, runcinate, irregu- 

 larly lobed ; heads J — i in. 

 across ; outer bracts spreading, 

 inner downy, within ; fruit 

 slender, but not beaked. — 

 Chalky soils in the south ; rare. 

 — Fl. June, July. Biennial. 



6. C. mollis (Blunt-leaved Hawk's-beard).— A slender plant, 

 2 — 3 feet high ; leaves oblong, blunt ; heads few, yellow ; bracts 

 with glandular hairs, the outer ones short, adpressed ; fruit many- 

 ribbed, not beaked. — Woods in the north ; rare. — Fl. July, 

 August. Perennial. 



7. C. />«/M^^5a (Marsh Hawk's-beard). — A slender, unbranched, 

 mostly glabrous species, about 2 feet high ; stem angular, leafy ; 

 leaves large, runcinate, with tapering points, the lower ones 

 stalked ; the upper ones heart-shaped at the base^ clasping ; 



CRitpis capillAris {Smooth Hawk's-bca7\f). 



