1032 BARKHAUSIA. [CLASS XIX. ORDER I. 
fruit is also found in those varieties of plants having the outer 
auricles, so that we fear these characters for specific differences must 
be abandoned. 
The whole plant abounds more or less profusely with a milky juice ; 
S. oleraceus and S. arvensis, furnish rabbits and hares with a favourite 
food, as well as pigs and asses. 
GENUS X. BARKHAU'SIA.—Mencu. Barkhausia. 
Nat. Ord. Composi'TEx. Juss. 
Gen. Cuar. Jnvolucrum oval, with deciduous awl-shaped scales, 
ribbed and furrowed when in fruit, the outer ones lax. Fecep- 
tacle naked. Fruit striated, tapering into a long slender beak. 
Pappus hairy—Name in honour of Moritz Barkhausia, a 
German Botanist. 
1. B. fe'tida, De Cand. (Fig. 1210.) Stinking Barkhausia. Stem 
erect, leafy; leaves rough, sessile, runcinato-pinnatifid, the upper 
ones lanceolate, deeply cut at the base; stem hairy ; involucrum 
downy, and more or less viscid. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 293.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 
158.—Crepis fetida, Linn.—English Botany, t. 416.—English Flora, 
vol. iii. p. 372. 
Root tapering, the whole plant more or less hairy, pale green, 
abounding with milky juice, with the odour of bitter almonds. Stems 
several, spreading, becoming erect, round, solid, branched and leafy. 
Leaves very unequally runcinato-pinnatifid, the radical ones much 
divided, the footstalk winged to the base, the terminal lobe more or 
less triangular, larger than the other lobes, the upper leaves lanceo- 
late, cut at the base. Inflorescence solitary flowers, terminating the 
stem and branches. -Peduncles swollen upwards, furrowed, scattered 
over with a few ovate lanceolate biacteas, rough, with pubescence. 
Involucre downy, the outer scales awl-shaped, loose, spreading, be- 
coming hardened and furrowed, and falling away as the fruit ripens, 
inner scales linear lanceolate, erect. J’lorets linear, obtuse, toothed 
at the end, yellow, the outer ones crimson at the back. uit oblong, 
furrowed, tapering into a slender awn. Pappus white silky hairs. 
Habitat.—Dry chalky ground; rare. Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, 
and Kent. 
Biennial; flowering in June and July. 
This plant is remarkable for its pale colour and its thickened 
peduncles becoming furrowed when in fruit. The flowers are small, 
pale yellow, closing early in the day, after expanding; when in bud 
the peduncles are recurved, but become erect. Fyrom the almond like 
