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3. S. arvensis, (Linn.) corn Sow-thistle. Engl. Bot. t. 674. 



Locality. In cultivated fields, amongst corn, especially on a 

 dampish soil. P. Fl. August. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. In all the 

 \Bistricts. Flowers very large yellow. 



Crepis, Linn. Hawk's-beard. 

 Linn. CI. xix. Ord. i. 

 Name given by Pliny to some plant, from crepis (Gr.) a sandal ; 

 which the leaves were supposed to resemble. 



1. 0. virens, (Linn.) smooth Hawk's-beard : virens, (Lat.) means 

 green, or flourishing. C. tectorum, Smith, (not Linn.) Engl. Bot. 

 1111. 



Locality. In meadows, pastures, and waste ground ; also on old 

 walls, dry banks, and by road-sides frequent. A. Fl. June, Sep- 

 tember. Area,l. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



General in all the Districts. Varying greatly in size and luxu- 

 riance, from a few inches to 2 or 3 feet in height. Stem rather 

 slender, more or less branched ; purple at the joints. Professor 

 Babington in a paper published in the 17th volume of "The 

 Transactions of the Linnaean Society/' p. 451, has clearly shown 

 that this plant is the Crepis virens of Linnseus, and not the C. tec- 

 torum of that author, as has generally been supposed. The Crepis 

 tectorum of Linnseus, which has not yet been found wild in Britain, 

 is described as having the leaves sinuato-pinnatifid, the fruit oblong, 

 attenuated, with rough ribs, equalling the pappus ; whereas our 

 plant has the fruit smooth, oblong, shorter than the pappus. 



[C. biennis, (Linn.) biennial Hawk's-beard, Engl. Bot. 1. 149, the 

 Rev. T. A. Preston informs me has recently been discovered at 

 Mildenhall near Marlborough (Dist. 5.) It will doubtless be found 

 in other parts of the County, but is extremely liable to be con- 

 founded with C. taraxacifolia, (Thuil.)] 



Hieracium, (Linn.) Hawkweed. 

 Linn. CI. xix. Ord. i. 

 Name. From ierax, (Gr.) a hawk ; because birds of prey were 

 supposed to employ the juice of this plant to strengthen their 

 powers of vision ; or rather, perhaps, from the mixture of black 



