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fruits slender, all equally long-beaked. — Calcareous soils ; local. — 

 Fl. June, July. Kieiinial 



3.* C. setosa. — Occurring as an introduced plant, chiefly in 

 clover-fields, is hispid, i — 3 feet high ; stem erect, branched from 

 the base, angular, furrowed, and leafy : upper leaves large, 

 sagittate ; peduncles slender, stiff deeply grooved, not thickened 

 above ; heads erect when m bud ; jruits slender, all equally long- 



1 leaked. — Fl. July, August. 



Annual or biennial. 



4. C. capilldris (Smooth 

 Hawk's - beard). — A variable 

 plant, (4 in. to 3 feet in height, 

 glabro'us below ; stem much 

 branched, furrowed ; upper 

 IcaiH's hnear, sagittate ; heads 

 nuirierous, sub-corymbose, \ — ^ 

 in. across, yellow ; outer bracts 

 adpressed, linear, inner ones 

 smooth* within ; jruit not 

 beaked ; pappus silkw — Waste 

 ground'and cottagu-rriofs ; com- 

 mon. ^-Fl. J une — .September. 

 Annual. 



5. C. biennis (Biennial 

 Ilawk's-beard). — .-V stout hispid 

 ]ilanl, resembling C. taraxaci- 

 ji'lia, but not reil-stained : stem 

 I 4 feet high, channelled ; 

 leaves large, runcinatc, irregu- 

 larly lolied ; Iieads -,- — i in. 

 acrosS;: outer bracts spreading, 

 ■injier downy within ; jruit 

 slender, but not beaked. — 

 ("halky soils in the south ; rare. 

 - M. June, July. ]-!iennial. 



('. nudlis (blnnt-leaved Hawk's-beard).— .V slender plant, 

 2 ;, feet high ; leaves (iblong, blunt ; heads few, wllow ; bracts 

 with glandular hairs, the e/,'/^r (jnes short, adpressed ; /;)(// manv- 

 ribbed, not beaked. --Woods in tlie north : rare. — Fl. July, 

 August, i^erenniaf 



7. C. paludasa (AFirsh Hawk's-beard). A slender, unbranched, 

 mostly glabrous S])eeies, about 2 I'cvi high ; stem angular, lealy ; 

 leaves large, runcinatc, with ta|)ering [xiints, the lower ones 

 stalked : the U[iper ones heart-shaped at the base, clasping ; 



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