Leontodon hispidum. Rough Dandelion. 



LEONTODON Lin. Gen. PL SyngenesiA Polygamia ^Equalis. 



Recepi. nudum. Calyx imbricatus, fquamis laxiufculis. Pappus 

 plilmofus. 



Raii Sym Gen. 6* HERBiE flore composito, natura pleno lactescentes. 



LEONTODON hifpidum calyce toto erecto, foliis dentatis integerrimis hifpidis : fetis furcati-S. Lin. 

 Syji. Vegetab.p. 596» Sp. PI. 1124. Fl. Sutc. n. 694. 



HEDYPNOIS fcapo nudounifloro, foliis lanceolatis dentatis hifpidis. Hudjon FL Angl. 340* 



PICRIS caule nudo, unifloro, foliis afperis dentatis. Haller. FUJI. n. 25. 



LEONTODON hifpidum. Scopoli FL Cam. n. 977. 



TARAXACONOIDES perennis et vulgaris. Vaill. A&t. 1721, p. 232. 



HIERACIUM afperum folio magno dentis leonis. Baub* Pin. 127. 



HIERACIUM dentis leonis folio hirfutum. Ger. em. 303. 



HIERACIUM afperum foliis et floribus dentis leonis bulbofi. Park 788. 



DENS LEONIS hirfutus XsTrJoaavX^ Hieracium dictus. Rati Syn. p. 171. Rough Dandelion 

 commonly called Dandelion Hawkweed. Lightfoot FL Scot. p. 433. 



RADIX perennis, obliqua, e nigro-fufca, plurimis fibris % ROOT perennial, oblique, of a blackifh brown colour, 

 pallidioribus, in terram recte demiffis capillata. | furnifhed with numerous fibres of a paler co- 



il: lour, running ftraight into the earth. 



SCAPI plerumque plures ex eadem radice, pedales aut | STALKS ufually feveral from the fame root, a foot or 

 fefquipedales, erecti, teretes, fiftulofi, hirfuti,| afoot and a half high, upright, round, hol- 



fimplices, nudi, fubinde foliolo five pluribus? low, hirfute, fimple, naked, now and then 



inftructi, fuperne obvie ftriati et incraflati, ad I furnifhed with one or more fmall leaves, above 



bafin purpurei. % . obvioufly itriated and thickened, purple at the 



I bafe. 



FOLIA radicalia plurima, in pratis fuberecta, in apricis % LEAVES : radical leaves numerous, in meadows nearly 

 fupra terram expanfa, palmaria feu fpithamasa, | upright, in expofed fituations expanded on the 



petiolata, oblonga, finuato-dentata, obtufiuf- y ground, a hand's breadth or more in length, 



cula, pallide viridia, hirfuta, pilis ut etiam | ftanding on foot-ftalks, oblong, indented and 



fcapi furcatis. | toothed, bluntifh, of a pale green colour, hir- 



% fute, the hairs as alfo thofe of the ftalk forked 



I at the extremity. 



FLORES majufculi, lutei, ante florefcentiam femper % FLO WERS largifh, yellow, before blowing always 

 nutantes. f drooping. 



CALYX fordide virens, fquamae laxe imbricate, in- 1 CALYX of a dingy green colour, fcales loofely imbri- 

 aequales, pilis longis albidis plerumque fim- 1 cated, unequal, rough with long whitiih hairs, 



pltcibus hirfutas. | which are for the moft part fimple. 



COROLLA compofita, aequalis, flofculi quinqueden- 1 COROLLA compound, equal, florets furnifhed with 

 tati, tubus fuperne pilofus, jig. 2. | five teeth, the tube hairy on the upper part, 



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SEMINA oblonga, fublineana, longitudine fere pappi,| SEEDS oblong, nearly linear, al moft the length of the 

 exteriores paululum incurvati, interiores recli, ^ pappus, the outer ones bending a little inward, 



ad lentem tranfverfe rugofi, Jig. 3. % the innermoft ones ftraight, when magnified 



J tranfverfely wjrinkled, fig. 3. 



PAPPUS pilofus, feffilis, fig. 4. % DOWN hairy, and feffile, fig. 4. 



RECEPTACULUM planum, nudum, pundatum. * RECEPTACLE flat, naked and dotted. 



Like the other plants of the clafs Syngenefia, the Leontodon hifpidum is fubject to vary confiderably in fize and 

 hairinefs ; but very luckily it has one character which attends it in all its ftates, and which never fails to diftinguim 

 it, its blojfoms droop while in the bud: ftriking as this character is, we believe it has efcaped the obfervation of former 

 Eotanifts, at leaft it has not been considered as of the flrft confequence in afcertaining the fpecies. The finglenefs 

 of its ftalks alfo contributes to diftinguim it from fome other plants of the fame clafs, while the hairs on the leaves 

 afford a more minute diftindion, being ufually bifid, but not always fo. 



As far as we have had opportunity of obierving, it is a very general plant throughout the kingdom, efpecially 

 where there is chalk or lime-ftone. In fuch fort of paftures it abounds as much as the common Dandelion does in 

 rich cultivated ones, and when in flower, which is ufually in July, cloaths them in the fame golden livery. 



As it forms fo confiderable a part of our pafturage, it is of fome confequence that we mould know whether Cattle 

 are fond of it, either frefh or made into hay; and we wifhed to lay before our readers the refult of Linn^us or 

 his Pupils experiments on this head ; but, though a Swedifh plant, it unfortunately proved to be one of thofe with 

 which no experiments were made. 



The common Dandelion, according to the Linnacan character, is certainly no Leontodon, the pappus being 

 fimple, and Scopoli has accordingly made another genus of it, Hedypnois. 



Mr. Hudson has united the prefent plant, the Leontodon autumnale, two fpecies of Crepis, with the Picris 

 echioides, under one genus of the fame name Hedypnois ; and Haller arranges our plant with his Picris. Amidft 

 all this confufion we have thought it beft in the prefent inftance to follow Linnjeus, efpecially as there is nothing 

 in the fructification of our plant which militates againft the- generic character of his Leontodon. 



