4S0 26. TriPcINCIA HIRTA. [CL. XIX. 



Hjoseris taraxacoides, Lam. Enc, 3. 159. (Sed planta dici^ 

 tur annua.) Sav. Pis, 2. 230. Santi it Tosc. 3. p. 360. 

 t. 7. " 



Rhagadiolus taraxacoides, Allim. Pedun. p. 836. 



Leontodon hispidum, Pollich. Palat. n. 737. * (Sed de pap- 

 pi diversitate nil dicit.) 



Colobium hirtum, Roth, in Rem. Arch. 1. 37. 



Thrincia hirta, Roth. Catal Bot. 1. 98, 2. 103. Willd. Sp. 

 PI. 3. 1554. Pers. Syn. 2. 368. De Cnnd. Fl. Fran. 4. 

 51. Sav. Bot. Etrusc. 34 122. Bertolon. Amasn. Acad. 

 183. Hagen. Fl. Bortiss. 2. 153. Spreng. Hal 228. 

 Baumg. Transylv. 3. 15. 



Geographical jDisirihution. 



This plant seems to be limited to a few countries. Ger- 

 many, from 50° N. Lat. going onwards to the south, France^ 

 Italy, and Transylvania, are the countries in which it is found* 

 Whether it grows in the Island of Great Britain is still unde- 

 termined ; because Hedypnois hirta Huds.^ although called a 

 Thrincia^ has many circumstances that distinguish it from 

 this, especially as Hieraciiim pumilum saxatile Rai Syn. 167. 

 along with which Hier. montanum saocatile C. Bauh. Prodr. 

 66. and Column. Ecphr. 1. 243. is classed, is by no means 

 our plant, but a subspecies of Apargia hispida or A. Villar- 

 sii Willd. But the plant of Ray is figured in the Engl. Bot. 

 555. 



Vynareae ; (Anleit. ii. 532.) 

 2!7. 



Cirsium Eriophorum, Scop. 



Wolldistel.— French, Chardon auoc a7i^*»-^Engl. Woolly- 

 headed thistle. 



This remarkable and beautiful thistle only grows in Germany 

 within very confined limits, on mountain meadows. It has a 



* Apargia hirta (distinct from A. hispida) is now ascertained to be a native 

 both of England and Scotland. 



