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Mr. C. C. Babington on the British species 0/ Arctium. 375 



beads nearly sessile ; each branch usually ending in a cluster of 

 three heads. Its leaves are apparently shorter in proportion to 

 their width. It is distinguished from the following plant by 

 ])Ossessing much larger ovate (not spherical and stalked) heads ; 

 from A. jjubens by its closed and nearly sessile heads ; from the 

 two preceding by the racemose arrangement of the heads even at 

 the top of the primary stem. 



Its distribution is unknown to me, with the exception that I 

 have gathered it near Berwick-up(m-Tvvced, and Mr. Newbould 

 at Hoj)e in Derbyshire. Mr. Baker states (Suppl. to the Fl. of 

 Yorkshire, 85) that he finds it frequently in Yorkshire, but I 

 have not seen any specimens of his plant. 



It flowers in August, but, like all the other species, may some- 

 times be found in that state in July. 



As I do not know that M. Lange has published the cha- 

 racters of his plant, it appears to be desirable to insert the fol- 

 lowing extract from his letter, dated March 1849 : — 



" A. intermedium calath. : adultis ovatis, squamis exterioribus 

 subulatis viridibus apice straraineis interioribus lanceolatis apice 

 purpureis. It is the highest of all the species. Plant fresh 

 green. Stem and head purple brown tinged, the heads doubly 

 greater than the little form {A. mi7ius). It grows principally in 

 woods. 



"A. ininus calath. : adultis depresso-globosis, squamis omnibus 

 subulatis cano-viridibus exterioribus apice stramineis. The plant 

 low, pale and grayish green. Open ground." 



It is probable that similar characters to the above are to be 

 found in that botanist's ' Danish Flora,' which I have not seen, 

 and which is WTitten in the language of Denmark. 



4. A. minus (Schkuhr) ; heads racemose shortly stalked spherical 

 slightly contracted at the mouth in fruit slightly webbed 

 (greenish), phyllaries falling short of the florets subulate, inner 

 row^ equalling the others, subcylindrical upper part of the florets 

 about equalling the lower part. 



A. minus, Schk. Handb. iii. 49 ; Fries, Nov. 263. 



A. Lappa a, Linn. Fl. Suec. ed. 2. 277, teste Fries. 



A. Lappa, Curt. Fl. Lond. ii. 173 ; Eng. Bot. t. 1228. 



Lappa minor, DeCand. Fl. Fr. iv. 77 ; Koch, Syn. 463 ; Gren. et 



Godr. Fl. Fr. ii. 280; Reichenb. Icon. Fl. Germ. xv. 53. t. 811. 

 Lappa major capitulis parvis glabris. Dill, in Raii Syn. 197. 3. 

 Lappa major montana, capitulis minoribus, rotuudioribus et magis 



tomeutosis, Raii Syn. 197. 5. 

 Small-headed Burdock, Pet. 23. 3. 

 Small woolly -headed Burdock, Fet. 23. 4. 



Stem and petioles finely mealy. A smaller plant than either 



