130 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



the acliencs ; the exterior ones with a heak usually less than their 

 own length. Plant dull-green, with the leaves commonly hispid, 

 and the stems glabrous towards the top. 



A form with glabrous leaves has occurred in Sandown Bay, Isle 

 of Wight. 



Long -rooted Cafs-ear. 



R-euch, Porcelle it longues Racines. German, Langwurzeliges FerkeVcravi. 



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Sub-Genus II.— ACHTEOPHOEUS. Scop. 

 Hairs of the pappus in one row, all plumose. 



SPECIES III.— HYPO CHCERIS MACULATA. Linn. 



Plate DCCXCI. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 583. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCXCVI. Fig. 1. 



Perennial. Leaves oblong-elliptical or oblanceolate-eilijitical, 

 repand or dentate or sinuate-dentate, hispid. Stems scape-like, 

 solitary or few, stout, erect, simple or with 1 or 2 branches, not 

 thickened upwards, very sparingly furnished with bracts (more 

 often destitute of them) beneath the anthodes. Pericline globular 

 in bud ; phyllaries numerous, entire, linear-lanceolate, the outer 

 ones hairy on the back and adpressed, the middle and inner ones 

 woolly-pubescent on the margins, the latter much shorter than 

 the florets. Achenes with elevated transverse lines, all beaked. 



On chalky and limestone hills. Rare. The Lizard, Cornwall ; 

 Ofmes Head, North Wales ; Humphrey Head, Lancashire ; Devil's 

 Ditch and Gogmagog Hills and Hildersham, Cambridge ; Suffolk. 



England. Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Leaves less divided than in the last species, generally spotted 

 with dark-purple and usually all radical, or the stem with 1 or 2 

 small leaves. Anthodes 1 to i, very large. Pericline hemispherical, 

 campanulate in flower ; the outer phyllaries with bristly hairs on 

 the back. Florets dark-yellow. Achenes scarcely mimcated, all 

 rather shortly beaked, but the beaks of the exterior ones shorter 

 than those of the central florets. Plant deep-green, hispid on the 

 leaves, and sparingly so on the stem. 



Spotted Cat's-ear. 

 French, Porcelle Tachie. German, Gejleckler ITadielkopf. 



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