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By Thomas Bruges Flower, Esq. 207 
8. S. arvensis, (Linn.) corn Sow-thistle. Engi. Bot. t. 674. 
Locality. In cultivated fields, amongst corn, especially on a 
dampish soil. P. Fl. August. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. SInall the 
Districts. Flowers very large yellow. 
Crerpis, Linn. Hawk’s-BEARD. 
Linn. Cl. xix. Ord. i. 
Name given by Pliny to some plant, from erepis (Gr.) a sandal ; 
which the leaves were supposed to resemble. 
1. ©. virens, (Linn.) smooth Hawk’s-beard: virens, (Lat.) means 
green, or flourishing. C. tectorwm, Smith, (not Linn.) Engl. Bot. 
1111. 
Locality. In meadows, pastures, and waste ground ; also on old 
walls, dry banks, and by road-sides frequent. A. Fl. June, Sep- 
tember. Area,1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 
General in all the Districts. Varying greatly in size and luxu- 
riance, from a few inches to 2 or 8 feet in height. Stem rather 
slender, more or less branched; purple at the joints. Professor 
Babington in a paper published in the 17th yolume of “The 
Transactions of the Linnean Society,” p. 451, has clearly shown 
that this plant is the Crepis virens of Linneus, and not the C. tec- 
torum of that author, as has generally been supposed. The Crepis 
tectorum of Linnzus, which has not yet been found wild in Britain, 
is described as having the leaves sinuato-pinnatifid, the fruit oblong, 
attenuated, with rough ribs, equalling the pappus; whereas our 
plant has the fruit smooth, oblong, shorter than the pappus. 
_[C. biennis, (Linn.) biennial Hawk’s-beard, Engl. Bot. t. 149, the 
Rev. T. A. Preston informs me has recently been discovered at 
Mildenhall near Marlborough (Dist. 5.) It will doubtless be found 
in other parts of the County, but is extremely liable to be con- 
founded with C. taraxacifolia, (Thuil.)] ‘ 
Hieractum, (Liny.) HAwKWEED. 
Linn. Cl. xix. Ord. i. 
Name. From teraz, (Gr.) a hawk; because birds of prey were 
iccet to employ the juice of this plant to strengthen their 
powers of vision; or rather, perhaps, from the mixture of black 
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