SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA 7EQIJALIS. 445 

 In mountainous paflures and gravelly foils, but 



not common. O. s. ^ ? VII. VIIL 

 The ftalk is 12 or 18 inclies high, and branchfd : 

 the radical leaves are of a long elliptic form, 

 acute at the end, and finuated or deeply indented 

 on the edges, the dents acute; they are not al- 

 ways fmooth, but fomctim.es a little hairy : the 

 ftalk-leaves are minute^ felTile, ov:i!-lanceoIate 

 the lower ones flightly dented, the upper ones 

 entire, and refembling///)/^/^: the peduncles are 

 thickefl at the top juft under the flowers : the 

 fcales of the calyx are fmooth, and very dillind: : 

 the flowers yellow, and about half an inch in 

 diameter : the down of the k^ds^ which are 

 placed in tlie centre of the difc, is llipporred on 

 pedicles, but of thole in the marrriR is lelFile. 



radknta 2. HYPOCH^RIS foliis runcinatis obtufis fcabris, 

 caule ramofo nudo Isvi, pedunculis fquamofis'. 

 Sp. pi 1140. (C^r. em. 29H, / 6. Moris, hiji. f. 

 .7. /. 4./. 27. Oed. Dan, t. 150 J 



Long-rooted Hawk weed. Anglis. 



In meadows and paflurf-s frequent. %. VII. 



The root is long, thick and white: the radical 

 leaves are hairy and roughuOi, and lie proflrate 

 on the ground round the root : they are jao-ged 

 half way to the rib, the anterior lacini^ bdng 

 broadeft, and the extremity of the leaf obtufe • 

 the flalks are naked, (except a few fmall oval* 

 acute//>«/^) fmooth, tough and pliant, branched, 

 12 or 15 inches high, and thickefl: attopjufl 



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