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der on two small slender spec., eacli with only 2 1. and 2 fl. and 
one only with the root left entire, still extant in BH. on a sheet 
inscribed originally either by Dryander or Solander (I believe 
with Mr. Bennett the former, but Mr. Carruthers thinks the 
latter) in pencil propria manu u Hyoseris pygmcea Hort. Kew. 
1779.” These are in my opinion merely weakly diminutive 
depauperated or young seedling drawn -up pi. of T. hirta Both 
(EB. t. 555) with hispid pubescent invol.-scales and (In one) 
the characteristic prae morse root — such as would be likely to 
occur in the fine turf of the Kew garden grass-plats. Hence 
doubtless the subsequent entire omission of Hyoseris py grace a 
Ait. by Solander in his books and MSS., and by Brown in the 
2nd ed. of Hort. Kew. 
The sheet in BH. inscribed* by Solander propria manu “ Le- 
ontodon nudicaule Mscr. Madera,” is truly the common Mad. 
T. hispida Both, var. a Lowe supra. But L. nudicaule Sol. MSS. 
in BH. is a mixture of this with English T. hirta Both. For 
though Solander in his MSS. says of his L. nudicaule “ Badix 
prsemorsa,” it is distinctly fusiform or tapshaped in this his 
original Mad. spec. And his other localities, a Bevesby in Lin- 
colnshire ” and “ Petersfield in Hampshire,” show him clearly 
to have had mainly in view T. hirta Both. 
+48. Helminthia Juss. 
+ 1. H. ECHIOIDES (L.). 
Harshly pustulato-strigose almost prickly, spinules simple 
or glochidiate ; 1. more or less hispid and fringed with spinules, 
oblong-lanceolate, the lowest attenuato-petiolate obsoletely re- 
pand-toothed, the st.-l. cordato-amplexicaul entire, all stiff and 
wavy ; heads clustered in small terminal leafy cymes shortly 
stalked, their outer leafy br. large cordate-ovate loosely erect 
spinous or ciliato-spinous and about the length of the lanceo- 
late hispid or hirtose inner scales, the midrib of which is pro- 
duced from below and beyond the tip into a distinct short ciliato- 
hirtose awn. — ( Helmintia ) Lam. 111. t. 648 ; Brot. i. 328. 
(Helminthia) Pers. ii. 370 ; Spr. iii. 668 ; DC. vii. 132 (excl. 
varr.) ; Koch 484; WB. ii. 465; Seub. Fl. Az. 34; Coss. et 
Germ. 430 ; Bab. 194 ; Gren. et Godr. ii. 304 (excl. var. /3) ; 
BEG. xix. 12, t. 27 ; Willk. et Lange ii. 220. Picris Echioides 
Linn. Sp. ii. 1114; Lam. Diet. v. 310; Buch 194. no. 216; 
EB. t. 972 ; Sm. E. Fl. iii. 339. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, c ; 
PS. reg. 2, 3, cc ; ND. cc ; GD. reg. 2, ccc ; SD. reg. 2, In 
