COMPOSITE. 127 
SPECIES I.— A RNOSERIS PUSILLA. Gcirtn. 
Plate DCCLXXXVIII. 
Bllhl, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1249. 
. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCLIV. Fig. 1. 
Sjoaeria minima, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 95. 
Lapsaua pusilla, Willd. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 233. 
Leaves oblanceolate, toothed, nearly glabrous. Scapes nu- 
merous, simple or slightly branched with the branches often 
r\( reding the main stem, gradually inflated and fistulous beneath 
the anthodes. Anthodes sub-globular, drooping before expansion. 
On sandy ground and in dry fields. Local. Occurring in Hants, 
Kent, Surrey, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, and it has like- 
wise been reported from Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset, and a few 
other English counties ; also in the counties of Forfar, Moray, and 
Aberdeen : but perhaps it is not native in Scotland. 
England, Scotland. Annual. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
Radical leaves in a rosette, varying much in the size of the 
teeth. Scapes 3 to 12 inches high, simple or with 2 or 3 curving- 
ereet branches. Anthodes i to ^ inch across. Phyllaries acumi- 
nated, pubcrulent. Elorets yellow. Achenes olive, pentagonal, 
with strong prominent ribs, the interstices rugose ; crown very 
short. Plant green, sub-glabrous. 
Sioine's Succory. 
French, Lampsane Minima. German, Kleines Lammkraut. 
Tribe II.— SCORZONERE.E. 
Pappus of the achenes (or at least those in the middle of the 
anrhode) of plumose hairs, often thickened at the base. 
GUNUS XXXI— B. YPOCHCERIS. Linn. 
Anthodes many-flowered. Pericline oblong-ovoid or oblong- 
cylindrical ; phyllaries numerous, equal, imbricated in several 
rows. Clinanth furnished with large scarious lanceolate acumi- 
nate pales, which are deciduous with the achenes. Achenes muri- 
il, with or without beaks. Pappus of scabrous hairs, some- 
times all plumose, sometimes with shorter simple ones on the 
outside. 
