odore Mcmspeliensium, Ray’s Syn. p. 165. — Hieracium lutenm. cichorii syl- 
vestris folio, amygdalas amaras olens, Moris, v. iii. p. 63. sect. 7. t. 4. f. A. — 
Hieracium folus cichorei sylvestris villosis, odore castorei. Magnol. Bot. 
Monsp. p. 139. — Blackst. Sp. Bot. p. 36. — Erigeron tomentosum alterum, 
Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 279, with a figure. — Castor Haukueed, Petiv. H. Brit, 
t. 12. f. 8. 
Localities. — On <by chalky ground; rare. — Cambridgesh. Dry pastures 
between Little Shelford and Wtttlesford : ILv. It. Rei.han. Devil’s 
Ditch: IIookf.r, in N. B. O. — Durham; Sundeilarid Ballast Hills: N. J. 
Winch, Ksq. — Essex ; Chalk-pits at I'm fleet : Mr. K. Foster, jun. — Kent; 
Charlton Chalk pits: Pitiver. Northfleet Chalk-pits: Bi.ackstone. Near 
Greenhithe: Hudson. Near Rochester: N. J. N inch. Esq. Dartford: Mr. 
James Macnab, in N. B. G. — Norfolk; Near Swaffham: Mr. Pikheord. 
At Barton Bendish, and Beechaimveli, in several places: Dawson Turner, 
Esq. — Northumberland ; On St. Anthon’s and Willington Ballast-hills: N.J. 
Wincu, Esq. — Suffolk; About Claydon, and Coddenham: Itev. G. Crahbe. 
Near the six-milestone from Bury to Newmaiket : and at Great Saxham : Sir 
T. G- Cui.eum. — Surrey ; Among the corn by ihe side of the road from Ban- 
stead Downs to Dorking : Martyn Field behind Juniper Hill, and about old 
stone-quanies west of Dorking : N.J. Winch, Ksq. — In Sussex; W. Boriier, 
Esq. N. B. G. 
Biennial. — Flowers in June and July. 
Root spindle-shaped. Stems several, spreading, a foot or more 
high, the central one only being quite upright ; all cylindrical, 
solid, rough with projecting hairs, grooved, leafy, and more or less 
branched. Leaves deeply and unequally pinnatifid, running down 
into winged and toothed footstalks ; the terminal lobe large, tri- 
angular, acute ; side ones broader above, the lowest strap-shaped, 
a little curved, all toothed, hoary-green, hairy, and rough. Flowers 
several, small, yellow, solitary, on long, furrowed, rough stalks, 
nodding before they open. Outer scales of the involucrutn (fig.l, a.) 
few, spear-shaped, shrinking as the flower fades ; inner (fig. 1, b .) 
strap-shaped, parallel, hairy, and downy, hardened by age, and 
permanently erect. Corolla pale yellow ; of a delicate reddish 
colour underneath. Seeds (fig. 6.) tawney, furrowed, very long 
and slender. Pappus (see fig. 6.) simple, roughish, on a long 
rough stalk. Receptacle (see figs. 7 & 8.) furnished with short 
hairs, fringing its shallow cells. — l’he whole herb is very milky. 
It is remarked by Villaus, that this plant varies in size, form, 
colour, and smell; but that in all the varieties the root is fusiform 
(spindle-shaped) ; the stem rough, channelled, and branched ; the 
leaves ash-coloured, and more or less indented at the base ; that it 
has commonly the smell of bitter almonds, especially the involu- 
crum, when bruised ; that the florets are red on the outside ; the 
seeds fusiform ; and the pappus on a stipe. 
Tournefort and Linnaats attribute the smell of bitter almonds 
to the leaves ; Haller more justly gives the plant a bituminous 
scent. Ray says that it has a strong scent of Castor ; and Martyn, 
that the flowers always seemed to him to have the smell of Opium. 
It is a native of France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and 
Piedmont, as well as of England. (See Sm. Engl FI. ; and Mart. 
Mill . Card. Diet.) 
