CL. XIX.] SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA JEQUALIS. 309 



tacle naked, convex, dotted. Name, from lean, a lion, and odous, 

 a tooth, on account of the jagged leaves. 371. 



1. L. Taraxacum. Common Dandelion. Outer scales of the calyx 



loose and reflected ; leaves runcinate, smooth. Flowers large, yellow, 



a single one on each tubular stalk. Bitter, but not disagreeably so. 

 Perennial : flowers from March to August: grows on pastures, on banks, 

 and by roads and walls : common. Eng. Bot. vol. viii. pi. 510. Eng. 

 Fl. vol.iii. p. 349. 1117. 



2. L. palustre. Marsh Dandelion. Outer scales of the calyx close- 

 pressed and erect ; leaves lance-shaped, between sinuate and toothed, 



nearly smooth. Much smaller than the last, and apparently distinct 



from it, its characters being permanent in every variety of situation. 

 Perennial : flowers in May and June : grows generally in marshy places, 

 sometimes in dry pastures, but always in ground that has not been sub- 

 jected to cultivation. In many districts of Scotland, and especially in 

 the Hebrides, it is much more common than the other species, of which, 

 however, it seems to be the original. Eng. Bot. vol. viii. pi. 553. Eng. 

 Ft. vol. iii. p. 350. 1118. 



7. APA'RGIA. HAWKBIT. 



Common calyx double ; the inner oblong, imbricated, of several 

 linear, parallel, unequal scales; the outer very small, of irregularly 

 scattered scales. Compound corolla of numerous, imbricated, 

 uniform, perfect, strap-shaped, abrupt, five-toothed florets. Fila- 

 ments hair-like, very short; anthers united into a cylindrical tube. 

 Germen oblong. Style thread-shaped, longer than the anthers ; 

 stigmas two, recurved. Seed oblong, striated ; seed-down sessile, 

 feathery, often scaly in the marginal seeds, sometimes a little 

 stalked in the central ones. Receptacle naked, or slightly hairy, 

 dotted. Name used by the ancients. 372. 



1. A. hispida. Bflu,gh Hawkhit. Stalks leafless, one-flowered ; leaves 

 runcinate, rough ; florets hairy at their orifice, glandular at the end ; 



seeds all with feathery down. Root tapering, long, leaves hairy on 



both sides : stalks simple, round, rough : flowers bright-yellow. Peren- 

 nial : flowers in July : grows in pastures : common. Eng. Bot. vol. viii. 

 pi. 554. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 351. 1 1 19. 



2. A.hirttt. Deficient Hatrkbit. Stalks leafless, one-flowered ; leaves 

 toothed, rough ; calyx nearly smooth ; outer row of seeds crowned with 



scales. Root abrupt : flowers yellow. Perennial : flowers in July 



and August : grows in gravelly pastures and on moors : common. Eng. 

 Bot. vol. viii. pi. 554. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 352. 1120. 



3. A. autumndlis. Autumnal Hawkbit. Flower-stalk branched, the 

 partial stalks scaly, and swelled under the flowers ; leaves lance-shaped, 



toothed, or pinnatifid, nearly smooth. Root lar^e, tapering : stalks 



from six inches to two feet high : leaves covered with scattered while 

 hairs : flowers large, yellow. Perennial : flowers in July and August : 

 grows in pastures and meadows, by way-sides and on banks : common. 

 Eng. Bot. vol. xii. pi. 830 : Hedypnois autumnalis. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. 

 p. 353. When the calyx and upper part of the flower-stalk is covered 

 with blackish hairs, it becomes the a. Taraxici, Dandelion Huwkhit, of for- 

 mer botanists. Eng. Bot. vol. xvi. pi. 1109. Hedvpnois Taraxici. Eng. 

 Fl. vol. iii. p. 352. 1121. 



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