128 ENGLISH BOTAKT. 



Herbs, with the leaves mostly radical. An th odes solitary or 

 in a lax corymb, large or rather large. Florets yellow. 



The name of this genus comes from two Greek words, uiro (Impo), under, and yoipo' 

 (c/unros), a pig, because .swine are supposed to delight in certain speciea. 



Sijb-Gentjs I.— EU-HYP0CH(ERIS. 



Hairs of the pappus in 2 rows, the outer ones shorter and not 

 plumose, the inner plumose. 



SPECIES I.— HYPOCHCEB, IS GLABRA. Linn. 



Plate DCCLXXXIX. 



JliUol, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1251. 



Jieich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCXCVIII. Figs. 2, 3, 4. 



Annual. Leaves in a rosette, oblanceolate - strapshaped or 

 oblanceolate, sinuate - pinnatifid or dentate, glabrous or sub- 

 glabrous. Stems scape-like, usually numerous, slender, erect or 

 ascending, slightly branched. Peduncles elongated, slightly thick- 

 ened upwards, very sparingly furnished with bracts below tho 

 anthodes, and often destitute of tlicm. Pericline oblong-ovoid 

 in bud ; pliyllaries few, glabrous, the innermost ones about as 

 long as the florets, the outer ones adpressed. Achenes muri- 

 cated, the inner ones produced into a beak at the apex, the 

 outer ones without a beak, or more rarely with a beak. 



Var. a, genuina. 



Achenes of the circumference without a beak, those of the 

 centre with a beak as long as themselves. 



Var. 3, Balbisii. 



H. Balbisii, Loh, Fl. Gall. Vol. II. p. ISO. 



All the achenes furnished with beaks. 



In sandy cultivated fields and waste places. Hather rare, 

 and sparingly distributed over England ; in Scotland occurring 

 in the counties of Ayr, Porfar, and Moray. 



England, Scotland. Annual. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Leaves spreading in a rosette, varying much in the depth of the 

 dentation or sinuation. Plowering-stems 3 to 18 inches high, com- 

 monly leafless, but sometimes with 1 or 2 small sessile loaves. 



