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shaped, entire, with 3 or 5 nerves. Involucre of 3 to 5 elliptical 

 leaves, nearly as long as the umhel-rays and involucels taken 

 together; involucel of 5 elliptical-ovate leaves, longer than the 

 flowers ; leaves of both connivent both in flower and fruit, herba- 

 ceous, with a very narrow white scarious border, mucronate or 

 shortly aristate, with 3 to 5 nerves united by anastomosing veins. 

 Cremocarp shortly oblong-ovoid, dark-brown, not granulated, with 

 very slender inconspicuous ridges ; interstices each with a single 

 vittu. 



On dry sandy banks and roadsides. Very rare. Parkhill, 

 Torquay ; more plentiful in the Channel Islands. 



England. Annual. Summer. 



English specimens 1 to 3 inches high ; the stem very slender, 

 simple, or forked, rarely witlx more than a single branch ; but. in 

 Jersey I collected specimens 10 inches high, with very numerous 

 branches, fvhich curve slightly upwards. Radical leaves in English 

 specimens -J to 1 inch long, oblanceolate ; stem-leaves narrowly 

 strapshaped : in some of the Jersey plants the radical leaves are 

 strapshaped, 2 inches long. Involucrnl leaves J to ^ inch long, 

 those of the involucel { to | inch. Hays of the umbel 2 to 5, 

 unequal, ^ to J inch long; pedicels very short. Flowers few, 

 very minute, yellow ; petals roundish, with a broad emarginate 

 inflexed point. Cremocarp ^ inch long. Plant glabrous, slightly 

 glaucous. 



Narrow-leaved Hare's-ear. 



French, Buplevre a/riele. 



SPECIES III.-B UPLEUEUM TENUI3SIMUEL Linn. 

 Plate DXCI. 

 Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XXI. Tab. 1891. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 778. 



Annual. Stems procumbent and diffuse or erect and panicu- 

 lately or racemosely branched. Leaves oblanceolate-linear, the 

 upper ones strapshaped or linear, very acute but not aristate, 

 with 3 nerves. Involucre of 3 to 5 unequal linear-subulate very 

 acute leaves; involucel of 4 or 5 leaves, similar to those of the 

 involucre, 1-nerved, longer than the flowers, connivent in flower, 

 spreading in fruit. Cremocai-p sub-globular, much compressed, 

 dark-brown, papillose-granulated, with prominent ridges and no 

 vittas. 



In salt marshes and waste places near the sea, and in fields 

 and on commons inland. Rather common in the South-East of 



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