LO88 BELLIS, [CLASS XIX. ORDER II. 
hairs, those of the disk downy, with the pappus erect, simple rough 
hairs. 
Habitat—Moist woods; Catton by Norwich; Mountains of Nor- 
thumberland ; Dan of Dupplin, and Dalkeith Park, &c., Scotland. 
Perennial ; flowering in June and July. 
This species, which is not unfrequent on the mountains in the 
North of Italy and other mountainous parts of the Continent, appears . 
a doubtful native of Britain. The whole plant is mostly, but not 
constantly, except in the upper part, clothed with a clammy pu- 
bescence. 
2. D. plantagin'eum, Linn. ? (Fig. 1295 ) Plantain-leaved Leopard’s- 
bane. Leaves ovate, toothed, the radical ones rounded or heart- . 
shaped at the base, upper ones with the petiole dilated, eared at the 
base, and embracing the stem, the uppermost ones sessile, ovate 
acuminate, embracing the stem; rhizoma short ; stolons none. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 307.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 
325.—English Botany, under. t. 2654, and D. Pardalianches, 
630.—English Flora, p. 447.-—D. scorpioides, Willd. FA 
Root a fleshy rhizoma, with fibrous roots, and from hae 
stems and leaves arise. Stem erect, from two to three feet high 
round, striated, somewhat downy and clammy, simple 
above. Leaves more or less hairy, soft and pliant, unequally ° waved, ‘ 
and obtusely toothed on the margin, the radical ones ovate, with the 
side of the long petiole, those at the base of the stem with a 
dilated petiole, or sessile, and embracing the stem, the upper 
with a more tapering point. Flowers larger than the last species, — 
bright yellow, solitary, terminating the stem and branches. IJnvola 
nearly smooth, its scales long, narrow, awl-shaped. Florets u 
rous, those of the ray long, linear, obtuse, or toothed at the e 
spreading, of the disk short, tubular, the limb five-cleft. rutt 
long, somewhat downy, those of the ray without pappus, those of the 
disk with short erect rough pappus. 
Habitat—Salinghall and Widdington, Essex; Burry Hill, near 
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire—R. D. Saline, Fifeshire ; and Cleish. 
—Dr. Dewar. 
Perennial ; flowering in June and July. 
GENUS XLI. BEL'LIS.—Liyy. Daisy. 
Nat. Ord. Composi'Tzx. it 
Gen. Cuan. Involucrum hemispherical, simple, of numerous oie 
lanceolate scales. Florets of the ray ligulate, imperfect. Recep- — 
tacle conical, naked. Pappus none.—Named from bellus, a fe. 
in allusion to the modest beauty of the flower. : 
