101 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1758. 



a fiesh-coloured flower. The flowers remain in their expanded state from 6 or 

 7 in the morning till 1 or 2 afternoon. — SQ. Hieracium echioides, capitulis car- 

 dui benedicti C. B. pin. 128. Raii Syn. 166. Picris echioides Sp. PI. 792. 

 Langue de boeuf. On banks about hedges, and about the borders of fields, flow- 

 ering in August. These expand about 4 or 5 in the morning, and never close 

 before noon : sometimes they remain open till 9 at night. — 40. Hieracium alpi- 

 num latifollum hirsutie incanum flore magno. C. B. pin. 128. Raii Syn. p. 167. 

 Hypochaeris maculata Sp. PI. 810. Broad-leaved Hungarian hawkweed. These 

 flowers are in their vigilating state from 6 in the morning till 4 afternoon. — 41. 

 Hieracium ramosum, floribus amplis, calycibus valde hirsutis, foliis oblongis 

 obtusis : dentibus majoribus inaequalibus incisis Raii Suppl. 144. 76. Hypochaeris 

 Achyrophorus Sp. PI. 810. This plant opens its flowers about 7 or 8 in the 

 jnorning, and closes them about 2 afternoon. — 42. Hieracium minus dentis 

 leonis folio, oblongo glabro C. B. pin. 1 27. Hypochaeris glabra Sp. PI. 811. 

 These expand about 9 in the morning, and close about 12 or 1 o'clock. — 43. 

 Hieracium falcatum alterum Raii Hist. 256. Lapsana calycibus fructus undique 

 patentibus, radiis subulatis, foliis lyratis Hort. Ups. 245. Sp. PI. 812. The 

 flowers open at 5 or 6, and close between the hours of 10 and 1.-— 44. Hedypnois 

 annua Tourn. Inst. 478. Hyoseris hedypnois Sp. PI. 8O9. The flowers open at 

 7 or 8, and close again at 2 afternoon. — 45. Hieracium montanum alterum lep- 

 tomacrocaulon Col. Raii Hist. 234. Lapsana chondrilloides Sp. PI. 812. Moun- 

 tain hawkweed with long slender stalks and small flowers. The flowers are in 

 their expanded or vigilating state from 5 or 6 in the morning till about 10. — 46. 

 Cichoreum sylvestre Ger. em. 284. Raii Syn. 172. Cichorium Intybus Sp. 

 pi. 813. Wild succory. On the borders of fields, flowering in August and 

 September. The flowers open about 8 in the forenoon, and keep expanded till 

 about 4 afternoon. — 47. Calendula arvensis C. B. pin. 275. Raii Hist. 338. 

 Calendula oflicinalis Sp. PI. 92 1. Wild marigold. The flowers expand from 9 

 in the morning till 3 afternoon. — 48. Calendula foliis dentatis Roy. Ludg. 177. 

 Miller, p. 50, tab. 75, f. 1. Calendula pluvialis Sp. PI. 92 1. Marigold with 

 indented leaves. The flowers expand from 7 in the morning till 3 or 4 afternoon. 

 Linneus observes of this plant, that if its flowers do not expand about their usual 

 time in the morning, it will almost assuredly rain that day : with this restriction 

 indeed that the plant is not affected by thunder-showers. Phil. Bot. 275.—- 49. 

 Sonchus pedunculis squamatis, foliis lanceolatis indivisis sessilibus. Hort. Upsal. 

 244. Flor. Suec. 2, N° 690. Lactuca salicis folio, flore caeruleo. Amman 

 ruth. 211. Of this plant it is remarked, that whenever the flowers are in the 

 expanded state in the night-time, the following day generally proves rainy. 



