SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA TEQIJALIS. 443 

 In mountainous paftures and gravelly foils, but 



not common. O.s. ^ ? VII. VIII. 

 The ftalk is 12 or 18 inches high, and branched: 

 the radical leaves are of a long elliptic form, 

 acute at the end, and finuated or deeply indented 

 on the edges, the dents acute •, they are not aU 

 ways fmooth, but fometimes a little hairy : the 

 ftalk-leaves are minute, felTile, oval-lanceolate, 

 the lower ones flightly dented, the upper ones 

 entire, and refembling"7?/p///^: the peduncles are 

 thickeft at the top juft under the flowers : the 

 fcales of the calyx are fmooth, and verydiftind: 

 the flowers yellow, and about half an inch in 

 diameter : the down of the feeds, which are 

 placed in the centre of the difc, is fupported on 

 pedicles, but of thofe in the rnargia is felTilc. 



radicata 2. HYPOCHiERlS foliis runcinatis obtufis fcabris, 

 caule ramofo nudo laevi, pedunculis fquamofis. 

 Sp. pi. 114^- (^^^- ^^^- 29^^^' /• ^- {Moris, hiji, f, 

 7. /. 4./. 27. Oed. Ban. t. 150.J 

 Long-rooted Hawkweed. Anglis. 

 In meadows and paftures frequent. 14. VIL 

 The root is long, thick and white : the radical 

 leaves are hairy and roughifh, and lie proftrate 

 on the ground round the root : they are jagged 

 half way to the rib,, the anterior lacinia being 

 broadeft, and the extremity of the leaf obtufe : 

 the ftalks are naked, (except a few fmall oval- 

 acute 7?//>^/i^} fmooth, tough and pliant, branched, 

 12 or 15 inches high, and thickeft atcopjuft 



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