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ponds and wet ditches. A tall plant, from 5 to 8 feet high, with 

 long, narrow, clasping leaves, 8 or 10 inches long, with acutely 

 pointed auricles. Flower-heads corymbose ; flowers yellow and 

 numerous. Banks of the Exe, near Powderham, Fl. D. (E. B. 

 t. 935.) P. vii. vin. 



2. S. arvensis (corn S.) Frequent in cornfields. Plant 

 from 2 to 3 feet high. Leaves toothed and clasping the stem, 

 with short and blunt auricles ; the lower leaves stalked. Flower- 

 heads in loose terminal panicles ; flowers bright-yellow. The 

 whole plant rough with brown or black glandular hairs. Feathers 

 of the seed white and silky. Warberry Hill, Torquay, etc. (E. 

 B. t. 674.) P. vin. ix. 



3. S. oleraceus (common annual S.) Cultivated ground and 

 waste places, very common. Plant from 1 to 3 or 4 feet high, 

 with a thick hollow stem, generally smooth ; lower leaves stalked 

 and deeply divided ; upper ones lanceolate and clasping the stem. 

 Flower-heads rather small, set in an umbel-like arrangement ; 

 flowers pale-yellow ; seeds bearing a snow-white pappus. Fields 

 and banks about Torquay and Marychurch. (E. B. t. 843.) A. 



4. S. asper (sharp-fringed annual S.) Growing in similar 

 situations to the last, of which it appears to be merely a variety, 

 having the leaves more sharply toothed, and the auricles broader, 

 and set with more prickly teeth. Fruit without the transverse 

 wrinkles of S. oleraceus. Chudleigh. (E. B. S. t. 2765, 2766.) 

 A. VI.-TIII. 



CREPIS. HAWK'S-BEARD. 



C. virens (smooth H.} In pastures, on dry banks, roofs of 

 cottages, and by roadsides, common. Plant from 1 to 3 feet higli, 

 branched and nearly smooth. Leaves somewhat lanceolate, pinnati- 

 fid. Root-leaves stalked, upper ones linear and clasping. Flower- 

 heads small, in loose panicles ; flowers yellow. Seeds oblong, 

 shorter than their pappus. Common about Torquay, etc. (C. 

 tectorum, E. B. t. 1111.) A. vi.-ix. 



X.EONTODON. DANDELION. 



L. Taraxacum (common D.) Waysides, meadows, and pas- 

 tures, common. A plant of very variable appearance ; leaves all 

 growing from the root, generally deeply pinnatifid, with broad 

 triangular lobes, pointing backwards; but sometimes long and 



