Hypoch(je'ris.'\ xlvi. composite: cichoraceje. 



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into the pedicel Flowers moderately large yellow. Pappus brownish- 

 white, 



5. Thrincia Roth, Thrincia. 



AcJienes tapering into a beak, the outer ones enveloped by 

 the leaves of the involucre. Pappus of the marginal florets 

 forming a short scaly cup, of the rest long, feathery. Becept. 

 naked. Invol imbricated. — Name: S-pty/coc, a battlement; from 

 the resemblance of the seed-crown of the marginal florets to 

 the battlements of a wall. 



1. T- hirta Roth (hairy T.) ; leaves lanceolate sub-sinuato- 

 dentate somewhat hispid with frequently forked hairs, scapes 

 single-flowered ascending glabrous below. Hedypnois E. B. 

 t. 555. 



Gravelly pastures and moors, i;. 7, 8. — In small starved speci- 

 mens, the leaves are frequently runcinate. Scales of the involucre 

 glahrous, or more or less hairy. The outer pericarps^ which have 

 scales for a pappus ^ are often abortive and smooth ; the inner ones are 

 beautifully striate and marked with raised dots. 



6. Hypoch(e''ris Linn. Cat's-ear. 



Achenes striate, often beaked. Pappus feathery. Receptacle 

 chafiy. Involucre oblong, imbricated. — Name from vno^for^ and 

 X^^P^Qt ^ ^og ?' the roots being eaten by that animal. 



* Pappus with an outer row of scabrous hairSn 



1. 11, glabra L. {smooth C.) ; nearly glabrous, involucre ob- 

 long regularly imbricated equalling the florets, achenes of the 

 central florets beaked, stem branched somewhat leafy, radical 

 leaves dentato-sinuate. — a. achenes of the circumference with- 

 out a beak. E, B. t. 575.— j3. achenes of the circumference 

 beaked. H. Balbisii LoiseL 



Fields and gravelly soils in many places, but not very common. 

 ^. In Kent and Shropshire. ©. 6 — 10. — Stem 1 ft. or more high. 

 Leaves oblong, with a few scattered hairs. Flowers small, yellow. 

 The var, ^. may be a distinct species; but we have not seen British 

 specimens, and our foreign ones are not sufficiently numerous to 

 enable us to decide. 



2. H. radicdta L. (long-rooted C) ; stem branched leafless 

 glabrous, peduncles with small scales, involucres shorter than 

 the florets, scales acuminate, leaves runcinate obtuse scabrous. 

 E. B. t. 831. 



Meadows, pastures and way-sides, frequent. 1/-. 7. — Leaves all 

 radical, spreading on the ground. Stem 1 ft. or more high. Peduncles 

 a little thickened upwards. Flowers rather large, yellow, Achenes of 

 all the florets beaked. 



