2G ENGLISn BOTANY. 



Derbyshire, Bcrwick-on-Tvveed, Bembridge, Isle of Wiglit, and 



Edinburgh. 



England, Scotland. Biennial. Autumn. 



I am unacquainted with this plant, and therefore give it only 

 on Professor Babington's authority. It seems to differ from A. in- 

 termedium only in the longer and narrower radical leaves and the 

 shortly-stalked anthodes. I have seen but a single dried specimen, 

 collected at Llanberis by the Rev. W. W. Newbould, which has not 

 the root-leaves. 



Narroio-leaved Burdock. 



SuB-SrEciEs III.— Arctium eu-minus. 



Plate DCCII. 

 Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et IKlv. Vol. XVII. Tab. DCCCXI. Fig. 1. 



A. minus, Bah. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. iii. Vol. XV. p. 11, and scr. ii. Vol. XVII. p. 075 ; 

 Man. Brit. Bot. cd. v. p. 187. 



Hadical leaves oblong-ovate, cordate, coarsely dentate. An- 

 thodes racemose, all shortly stalked or subsessilc. Pericline 

 small, ovate-ovoid, arachnoid or glabrous ; phyllarics shorter than 

 the florets. 



In w'aste places. Common, and generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial. Autumn. 



Stem 2 to 4 feet high ; branches generally slightly drooping. 

 Radical leaves with the teeth more acute than in any of the pre- 

 ceding forms ; petioles with a large hollow. Anthodes much smaller, 

 ■g to f inch across, truly racemose, or sub-spicate-racemose ; phyl- 

 larics gi'een or tinged Avith purple, more slender, less spreading and 

 shorter in proportion to the florets than in any of the other Burdocks. 

 Achenes rather narrower and generally darker in colour, with the 

 black spots almost confluent. 



Lesser Burdoclc. 



GENUS FI.—S A U S S U R E A. D. C. 



Pericline of imbricated entii'c blunt or mucronate phyllarics, 

 not appcndiculatc or spinous. Elorcts all equal, perfect. Filaments 

 free, glabrous ; anthers furnished at the base with two Avoolly fili- 

 form appendages, and longly acuminated at the summit. Achenes 

 sub-cylindrical, finely striate; epigynous disk with a spreading 

 border, which bears the external row of the pappus. Pappus 

 double, the external row persistent, of denticulated hairs, the 



