COMPOSITE. 137 



SPECIES I.— ARNOSERIS PUSILLA. Gartn. 



Plate DCCLXXXVIII. 



BUM, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1249. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. ]\rCCCLIV. Fig. 1. 



Hj'oseris minima, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 95. 



Lapsana pusilla, Willd. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 233. 



Leaves oblanceolate, toothed, nearly glabrous. Scapes nu- 

 merous, simple or slightly branched with the branches often 

 exceeding the main stem, gradually inflated and fistulous beneath 

 the anthodes. Anthodes sub-globular, drooping before expansion. 



On sandy ground and in dry fields. Local. Occurring in Hants, 

 Kent, Surrey, Essex, Norfolk, Sufiblk, Cambridge, and it has like- 

 wise been reported from Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset, and a few 

 other English counties ; also in the counties of Forfar, Moray, and 

 Aberdeen : but perhaps it is not native in Scotland. 



England, Scotland. Annual. Late Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Eadical leaves in a rosette, varying much in the size of the 

 teeth. Scapes 3 to 12 inches high, simple or with 2 or 3 curving- 

 erect branches. Anthodes 5 to :| inch across. Phyllaries acumi- 

 nated, puberulent. Florets yellow. Achenes olive, pentagonal, 

 "with strong prominent ribs, the interstices rugose ; crown very 

 short. Plant green, sub-glabrous. 



Swine's Succory. 



French, Lampsane Minima. German, Kleines Lammhraut. 



Tribe IL— SCOKZONEREiE. 



Pappus of the achenes (or at least those in the middle of the 

 anthode) of plumose hairs, often thickened at the base. 



GENUS XXXI.— B. YPOCHCERIS. Linn. 



Anthodes many-flowered. Pericline oblong-ovoid or oblong- 

 cylindrical ; phylkries numerous, equal, imbricated in several 

 rows. Clinanth furnished with large scarious lanceolate acumi- 

 nate pales, which are deciduous with the achenes. Achenes muri- 

 cated, with or without bealvs. Pappus of scabrous haks, some- 

 times all plumose, sometimes with shorter simple ones on the 

 outside. 



