THE AUTUMNAL 

 HAWK-BIT. 



Apargia autumnnlis. Nat. Ord., Com- 

 posites. 



HE plant we have here figured is 

 one of the most common of 

 several very similar-looking 

 herbs. It is a perennial, and 

 abundantly distributed through- 

 out Britain in meadow land, 

 and on commons and other 

 such waste spaces of ground. 

 It flowers about August. 



The autumnal hawk-bit has 

 several long and spreading 

 radical leaves that are divided 

 into more or less regular lateral 

 lobes, and are sometimes thickly 

 covered with stiff hairs, that, 

 from their number and grey colour, 

 give a kind of bloom to the leaf, 

 though at other times the leaves 

 are almost or entirely destitute of 



them. From this ring of leaves the flower-stems rise 

 boldly up, and then presently branch off into two or 

 three peduncles that bear the flower-heads. These are 

 ordinarily quite destitute of hairs, buc have at intervals 



