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Periclinc oblong ia flower ; pliyllarics unequal, strapsliaped, sud- 

 denly acuminate. Florets rather few, pale-yellow. Pales about as 

 long as the florets, narrowly-lanceolate wdtli reddish setaceous 

 points. Achenes reddish-brown, cylindrical, the centre ones ter- 

 minated by a slender beak ; in var. ^ the exterior florets are abortive, 

 according to Professor Grenier. Pappus yellowish-white. Plant 

 glabrous or sub-glabrous, j^ale-green. 



Smooth CaVs-ear. 



French, PorceUe Glabre. German, KMes FerA-elkraut. 



The common name of this plant is from the shape of its leaves, which might be 

 supposed to resemble a cat's ear. It was also called Swine's Succory and Gum Succory. 

 Gcrarde tells us that " the root and leaves tempered with honey, and made into 

 trochisks or little flat cakes, with nitre or saltpetre added to them, cleanse away the 

 morphea, sunburnings, and all spots of the face." 



SPECIES II.— HYPOCHCERIS RADICATA. Linn. 

 Plate DCCXC. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 3134. 

 A'eicA. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCXCVII. 



Perennial. Leaves in a rosette, oblong-oblanceolate or lance- 

 olate, sinuate-pinnatifid or dentate, sometimes runcinate, usually 

 hispid. Stems scape-like, numerous, rather slender, erect or 

 ascending, more or less branched. Peduncles elongated, thickened 

 upwards, and furnished with numerous small bracts beneatli 

 the anthodes. Pericline globular-turbinate in bud ; phyllaries 

 numerous, generally ciliated on the midrib, the inner ones con- 

 siderably shorter than the florets, the outer ones rather lax. 

 Achenes strongly muricated, all more or less evidently produced 

 into a beak at the apex. 



In fields, pastures, and waste ground. Very common, and 

 generally distributed, extending to Orkney. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial or biennial ? 

 Summer and Autumn. 



Leaves numerous, much larger and firmer in texture than those 

 of the preceding species, and more hairy and usually more deeply 

 sinuate. Plowering-stcms copiously branched in large examples, 

 usually without leaves, or with 1 or 2 small ones. Pericline oblong- 

 CMnpanulate in flower, with the phyllaries narrower, more acu- 

 minate, and more numerous than in H. glabra. Pales with long 

 setaceous points. Anthodes usually much larger than in H. glabra. 

 Florets deep yellow, numerovis. Achenes large, strongly muricated, 

 and with a long beak, in the central ones exceeding the length of 



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