116 LEONTODON. CREPIS. 



knowledge of its diuretic property. Abundant everywhere, flowering 

 from April to autumn. ^ — Mr. Hardy characterises a Berwickshire 

 variety maritimum thus: "Leaves almost entire, sublyrate or ohlong- 

 obovate, much expanded towards the apex." Bot. Gazette, i. p. 133. 

 This is very different from two that have attracted our attention, and 

 which are also sea-side residents. The first, remarkable for its 

 superior neatness and prettiness, grows abundantly on Spittal Links. 

 It is smaller in all its parts, and the leaves lie expanded in a stellate 

 or rosulate fashion on the ground. They are very deeply cut, almost 

 to the midrib, into many regular and neat segments, all pointing 

 backwards ; the terminal are as usual the largest. The flower-stalk 

 is firm and round, gently tapered upwards, erect, or gracefully bent 

 in a sigmoid flexure. The flowers small, and very neat, with the 

 calyx-segments all erect — the exterior broadly ovate, acute, with 

 purplish margins, — the apices of the floret with 5 equal obtuse 

 serratures. It flowers in May. This variety is very distinct from 

 the Leontodon palustre of Smith, with which, however, it agrees in 

 the erect and appressed position of the outer scales of the involucre ; 

 nor can it be referred to any of the varieties distinguished by Koch. 

 It is further to be remarked, that its peculiarities do not depend on 

 the dry sandy nature of its localitjr, for with it, the ordinary plant 

 grows profusely, nor do they ever intermingle their characters. The 

 second variety grows on rocky soil on the coast at Burnmouth. Like 

 the Spittal plant, the leaves are deeply runcinate and rosette-spread ; 

 but the exterior leaflets of the involucre are ovate, acute, and retro- 

 verted, while the interior are erect and corniculate at the apex. This 

 may be the variety fi. Icxivigatwn of Mr. Babington in his Fl. Sam. 

 p. 57. 



342. L. PALUSTRE. Occurs occasionally in boggy ground on all 

 our moors. June. 



343. Crepis virens = C. tectorum. Smith. — Dry pastures, old 

 walls, and road-sides, common. Summer. 



344. C. succisiBFOLiA =: Hieracium moUe, Smith. — B. Langton 

 woods, Rev. Thos. Brown. By the banks of Ernescleugh water near 

 Egrop or Edgarhope wood in Lauderdale. Blackburn-rigg dean, on 

 the north bank, sparingly, J. Hardy. — D. In a dean near Kyloe. — 

 N. In the Cheviots on the banks of the Common Burn, G. R. Tate. 

 — Aug., Sept. 



345. C. PALUDOSA = Hieracium paludosum. Smith. — Marshy 

 places, especially in woods, frequent. It is now extirpated from the 

 Castle-hills, where, until within these few years, it grew profusely, a 

 few feet only above the sea level. In Dunsdale it ascends the Cheviot 

 to a height of about 2000 feet. July, Aug. 



name, we have hitherto believed, was derived from the resemblance of the 

 jagged edges of the leaf to the rows of teeth that garnish the jaws of the 

 heraldic lion, or of the " Red Lions " that announce the head inn of the 

 provincial town. The Red Lions of naturalists are not of the same species. 



