420 2G. THllIXCTA TIIP.TA. [CL. XIX. 



Jlyosciis taraxacoides, Lam. Enc. 3. 159. (Sed pianta dici. 



tur annua.) Snv. Ph. 2. f?30. Sanfi it, Tosc. 3. p. 360. 



t. T. 

 Rhacradiolus taraxacoides, AUimi. Peduti. p. 83G. 

 Let)ntodon hlspiduni, PolUch. Pulat. n. 737. * (Scd de pap- 



})i diversitate nil dicit.) 

 Colobium hirtum, Roth, in Rem. Arch. 1. 37. 

 TInincia hirta, Roth. Catal Bot. 1. 98, 2. 103. WilU. Sp. 



PI 3. 1554. Pcrs. St/n. 2. 368. De Cand. Fl. Fran. 4. 



51. Sav. Bot. Etrtcsc. 3. 12^. Bertoloti. Amccn. Acad. 



183. Ilagcn. FL Boruss. 2. 153. Sprcng. Hal 228. 



Baiimg. Transylv. 3. 15. 



Geographical Distribution. 



Tliis plant seems to be limited to a few countries. Ger- 

 many, from 50' N. Lat. going onwards to the south, France, 

 Italy, and Transylvania, are the countries in which it is found. 

 Whether it grows in the Island of Great Britain is still unde- 

 termined ; because Hedypnois hirta Huds., although called a 

 ThrinciOf has many circumstances that distinguish it from 

 this, especially as Hieracium pumilum saxatih Rai Syn. 167. 

 along with which Hicr. montarnim saxatile C. Bauh. Prodr. 

 66. and Column. Ecphr. 1. 243, is classed, is by no means 

 our plant, but a subspecies of Apargia hispida or A. Villar- 

 sii Willd. But the plant of Ray is figured in the Engl. Bot. 

 555. 



Cynarcce ; (Anleit. ii. 532.) 



Cirsium Eriophorum, Scop. 



Wolldistel. — French, Cliardon aiix uncs. — Engl. Woolly- 

 headed thistle. 



This remarkable and beautiful thistle only grows in Germany 

 within very confined limits, on mountain meadows. It has a 



• Apargia hirta (distinct from A. hispida) is now ascertained to be a native 

 Lotli of England and .'Scotland. 



