374SYNGENESIA— POLYGAM.-iEQU.Hypochoeris. 

 379. HYPOCHffiRIS. Cat's ear. 



Linn. Gen. 405. Juss. 170. Fl. Br. 840. Vaill. Mem. de I' Ac. des 



Sc. 7 40. f. 21 J 28. Lam.t.656. Gcertn.tAGO. 

 Achyropborus. Gcertn.i. ]^9. 



Common Cal. ovate, imbricated, with lanceolate acute scales, 

 the outer ones gradually smaller, all permanent, un- 

 changed. Cor. compound, of numerous, imbricated, 

 uniform, perfect, ligulate, abrupt, S-toothed^o/r^s. Filam. 

 capillary, very short. Anth. in a cylindrical tube. Germ, 

 obovate. Style thread-shaped, prominent. Stigmas re- 

 curved. Seed-vessel none, except the permanent, finally 

 spreading, or reflexed calyx. Seed oblong, acute, fur- 

 rowed, rough. Down feathery, stalked, or partly sessile. 

 Recept. chaffy, with linear-lanceolate smooth scales, as 

 long as the seeds, or longer. 



Milky herbs, with or without a simple or branched stem. 

 Leaves undivided, toothed, rough or smooth. Fl. various 

 in size, yellow. 



1. H 7naculata. Spotted Cat's-ear. 



Stem solitary, nearly naked, mostly simple. Leaves ovate- 

 oblong, undivided, toothed. 



H. maculata. Linn. Sp. P/. 1J40. W^iWd, f.3. 1620. H. £r.840. 



Engl. Bot. V. 4. t. 225. Hook. Scot. 234. Fl. Dan. t. 1 49. 

 Hieracium primum latifolium. Rail Syn. 167. Ger. Em. 301. f. 



Clus. Hist. V. 2. 139./. Pann. 640./. 641. 

 H. alpinum latifolium hirsutum incanunij magno flore. Moris, v. 3. 



69. sect. 7. <.5./.53. 

 Broad Mouse-ear. Petiv. H. Brit. t. l\.f.4. 



In open high chalky pastures. 



On Newmarket heath and Gogmagog hills. Ray, Reltian. On 

 Bernuk, or Bernack, heath, Northamptonshire. Ray. On Om- 

 pherhead, by Cartmel wells, Lancashire, very plentifully ; Mr. 

 Hall ; and near Settle, Yorkshire ; Mr. Caley. With. At Ick- 

 lingham, near Bury, Suffolk. Sir T. G. Cullum, Bart. In dry 

 woods to the east of Forfar. Mr. G. Don. 



Perennial. July. 



Root externally black, thick, running deep into the ground, very 

 milky, like the herbage. Leaves all radical, except in luxuriant 

 plants, oblong, very irregularly toothed, rough with short hairs, 

 dark green, blotched with brown, or dark red. Stem usually 

 simple and single-flowered, rarely divided, round, roughish, 

 hollow, bearing one or two small lanceolate leaves, which might 

 be termed bracteas, and the stem a radical stalk, were there not 

 sometimes a considerable leaf or two on the latter. Fl. large, 



