90 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Biennial ? Stem erect, simple, hoary-arachnoid. Radical leaves 
in a rosette, oval or elliptical, spathulate ; stem-leaves few, sessile, 
Bemi-amplexicaul, lanceolate or strapshaped. Leaves all entire, 
or tli»> radical ones toothed, densely pubescent on both sides, and 
arachnoid-floccose when young. Corymb simple, umbellate. An- 
thodea 2 to 6, erect. Pericline hemispherical, bell-shaped; phyl- 
laries all equal, arachnoid-hairy at the base, puberulent towards 
the apex. Ray-florets rather numerous. Achenes hispid. Pappus 
at length a little Longer than the florets. 
Var. a, gcnuina. 
Radical leaves entire or slightly toothed. Stem 3 inches to 
1 foot high. 
Var. /3, maritima. 
Radical leaves generally with numerous broad teeth. Stem 
1 foot high. Anthodes more numerous and larger than in var. a. 
In chalky pastures and by roadsides. Rare. In Dorset, Hants, 
Sussex, Surrey, Berks, Oxford, Hertford, Essex, Cambridge, and 
Northampton. Var. /3 on maritime rocks near Holyhead, Anglesea. 
England. Biennial or Perennial ? Early Summer. 
Radical leaves lying flat on the ground in a rosette, 1 to 2 inches 
long; stem-leaves lew, especially on the upper part of the stem. 
Peduncles short. Anthodes f tol inch across, bright-yellow. Pappus 
nearly as long as the florets, not increasing much afterwards. Whole 
plant more or less hoary with arachnoid wool, which at length nearly 
disappi ars from the upper side of the leaves, leaving them covered 
\\ itli short curled liairs. 
Of \ar. 1 have seen no specimens. 
Field Meawort. 
French, Senegon des 1'ris. German, Fdd Baldgreia. 
GENUS XI IL—D ORONICUM. Linn. 
Anthodes heterogamous and radiant. Clinanth hemispherical, 
naked or hairy. Pericline saucer-shaped, of nearly equal herba- 
ceous phyllaries, imbricated in 2 or '6 rows. Florets of the disk 
tubular, perfect ; these of the circumference female, ligulate. • 
Branches of the style of the perfect flowers truncate, slightly- 
downy at tl Achenes of the disk with a pappus of hairs 
arranged in several rows, those of the circumference without 
papp 
