128 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Herbs, with the loaves mostly radical. Anthodes solitary or 
in a lax corymb, large or rather large. Florets yellow. 
The name of this genus comes from two Greek words, vtto (hupo), under, and ypipor 
(choiros), a pig, because swine are supposed to delight in certain species. 
Sub-Genus I.— EU-HYPOCHCERIS. 
Hairs of the pappus in 2 rows, the outer ones shorter and not 
plumose, the inner plumose. 
SPECIES L— H YPOCHCERIS GLABRA. Linn. 
Plate DCCLXXXIX. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1251. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCXCVIII. Figs. 2, 3, 4. 
Annual. Leaves in a rosette, oblanceolate - strapshaped or 
ohlanccolate, sinuate - pinnatifid or dentate, glabrous or sub- 
glabrous. Stems scape-like, usually numerous, slender, erect or 
ascending, slightly branched. Peduncles elongated, slightly thick- 
ened upwards, very sparingly furnished with bracts below the 
anthodes, and often destitute of them. Pericline oblong-ovoid 
in bud ; phyllaries few, glabrous, the innermost ones about as 
long as the florets, the outer ones adpressed. Achenes muri- 
cated, the inner ones produced into a beak at the apex, the 
outer ones without a beak, or more rarely with a beak. 
Var. a, genuina. 
Achenes of the circumference without a beak, those of the 
centre with a beak as long as themselves. 
Var. 0, BalbisiL 
H. Balbisii, Lois, Fl. Gall. Vol. II. p. 180. 
All the achenes furnished with beaks. 
In sandy cultivated fields and waste places. Rather rare, 
and sparingly distributed over England ; in Scotland occurring 
in the counties of Ayr, Porfar, and Moray. 
England, Scotland. Annual. Late Summer and Autumn. 
Leaves spreading in a rosette, varying much in the depth of the 
dentation or sinuation. Plowering-stems 3 to 18 inches high, com- 
monly leafless, but sometimes with 1 or 2 small sessile leaves. 
