CL. XIX.] SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA ^QUALIS. ,';13 



3. C. virens. Smooth Hawk's-beard. Root-leaves runcinate ; 

 stem-leaves lance- shaped, toothed, embracing; stem smooth ; ca- 

 lyx rough ; seed-down sessile. Stem from one to two feet high : 



leaves smooth : panicle slender, corymbose : flowers small, bright- 

 yellow. Annual : flowers from June to October : grows in dry 

 pastures and waste ground, on walls and roofs : common. Eng. Bot. 

 vol. xvi. pi. 1111. C. tectorum. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 372. 1140. 



4. C. biennis. Rough Hawk's-beard. Lower leaves runcinate ; 

 stem-leaves pinnatifid, clasping ; all rough with bristly hairs ; ca- 

 lyx somewhat bristly. Stem three or four feet high, erect, co- 

 rymbose : flowers pale-yellow. Biennial : flowers in June and 

 July : grows in dry pastures in the south of England : frequent. 

 Eng. Bot. vol. iii. pi. 149. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 373. 1141. 



10. HYPOCHCE'RIS. CAT'S-EAR. 



Common calyx egg-shaped, imbricated, with lance -shaped, 

 acute scales, the outer gradually smaller, all permanent. Com- 

 pound corolla of numerous imbricated, uniform, perfect, strap- 

 shaped, abrupt, five-toothed florets. Filaments hair-like, very 

 short ; anthers united into a cylindrical tube. Germen in- 

 versely egg-shaped. Style thread-shaped, longer than the 

 anthers ; stigmas recurved. Seed oblong, acute, furrowed, 

 rough ; seed-down feathery, stalked. Receptacle chaffy, with 

 slender, acute scales, as long as the seeds. Name from hypo, 

 for, and choiros, a hog. 375. 



1. H. maculdta. Spotted Cat's-ear. Stem nearly leafless, com- 

 monly simple, leaves oblong, inclining to egg-shaped, undivided, 



toothed Stem generally leafless, sometimes with one or two 



lance- shaped leaves : root-leaves rough, blotched with brown : 

 flowers, large, yellow. Perennial: flowers in July : grows in dry 

 pastures and woods : rare. Eng. Bot. vol. iv. pi. 225. Eng. FL vol. 

 iii. p. 374. 1142. 



2. H. gldbra. Smooth Cat's-ear, Stems branched, somewhat 



leafy, smooth; leaves toothed or sinuated, smooth. -Stems a 



foot or more high : leaves oblong, hairy : flowers small, bright- 

 yellow : down of the central florets only stalked. Annual : flowers 

 from June to September : grows in gravelly pastures : not com- 

 mon. Eng. Bot. vol. viii. pi. 575. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 375. 1 143. 



3. H. radicdta. Long-rooted Cat's-ear. Stems branched, leaf- 

 less, smooth ; leaves runcinate, obtuse, rough ; flower-stalks scaly ; 



down of all the seeds stalked. Root long and tapering : stems 



about a foot high, spreading with a small scale under each branch, 

 and a number of awl-shaped bracteas on the hollow, enlarged 

 flower-stalks : flowers large, bright-yellow. Perennial : flowers 

 in July and August : grows in pastures and waste ground : com- 

 mon. Eng. Eot.vol. xii. pi. 831. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 376. 1144. 



11. LAPSA'NA. NIPPLE- WORT. 



Common calyx double, egg-shaped ; the outer of a few small 

 egg-shaped, or linear, scattered, close scales ; the inner of 

 about eight linear, channelled, keeled, acute, nearly equal 

 scales. Compound corolla of about sixteen imbricated, uniform, 

 perfect, strap-shaped, abrupt, five-toothed florets. Filaments 



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