454 Mr. Babington on several new and imperfectly understood 



Hedypnois tectonim. Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. 2. 341. 



C. polymorpha |3. virens. Wallr. I. c. Bbiff". et Fingerh. FL Germ. ii. 300. 

 Roth, Manuale Bot. I. c. 



C. virens, var. (*). Pers. Syn. ii. 377-? 



Common Hawkbeard. Pet. Herb. xii. 6. 



(3. pinnatifida. Radical leaves broadly ovate, blunt, remotely dentate, cauline 

 ones linear-lanceolate, very deeply divided into numerous long linear seg- 

 ments, the uppermost nearly entire, sagittate ; stem erect, branched above. 



C. pinnatifida. ff^illd. Sp. PI. iii. 1604. 



C. virens. Hoffm. Fl. Germ. ii. 281. 



Succory Hawkbeard. Pet. Herb. xii. 7- 



y. striata. Wallr. Leaves linear-lanceolate, remotely dentate, cauline ones 

 slightly sagittate ; stem erect, branched above. 



C. stricta. Scop. ii. 99. " DC. Cat. Hort. Monspel. 99." 



C. polymorpha a. stricta. IVallr. I. c. 



Buddie's Hawkbeard. Pet. Herb. xii. 5. 



S. diffusa. Wallr. Leaves remotely dentate, sinuate or runcinate, cauline 

 ones linear, nearly entire, hardly sagittate; stem diffuse, branching at 

 the base. 



C. tectorum var. 4. With. Bot. Arr. iii. 690. 



C. diflFusa. " DC. Cat. Hort. Monspel. 99." Fl. Fr. v. 448. Spreng. Syst. 

 iii. 634. Bot. Gall. i. 299. Bluff, et Fingerh. I. c. 



C. virens. Willd. Sp. PL iii. 1604. Pers. Syn. ii. 376. 



C. polymorpha y. diffusa. Wallr. I. c. Roth, I. c. 



Dandelion Hawkbit. Pet. Herb. xii. 4.? 



Stem furrowed, smooth, purplish ; in var. «., (5., y., upright, branched above, 

 1 or 2 feet high : in S. branched at the base, the branches diffuse, often 

 prostrate ; leaves glabrous, very variable in size and form ; the radical 

 ones narrowing below into a winged petiole, which is generally purple on 

 its under side, simply toothed, runcinate or runcinato-dentate, usually 

 rounded at the end, sometimes acute ; cauline ones in var. a. shghtly 

 runcinate, the upper ones nearly entire, sagittate : in var. /3. linear-lan- 

 ceolate, deeply divided into numerous, long, linear, patent segments, the 

 few uppermost nearly entire, sagittate : in var. y. broadly linear-lanceolate. 



