COMPOSITE. "1 -!'.) 
Periclinc oblong in flower ; phyllaries unequal, strapshaped, sud- 
denly acuminate. Florets rather few, pale-yellow. Pales about as 
Ions: as the florets, narrowly-lanceolate with reddish setaceous 
points. Achenes reddish-brown, cylindrical, the centre ones ter- 
minated by a slender beak ; in var. $ the exterior florets are abortive, 
according to Professor Grenicr. Pappus yellowish-white. Plant 
glabrous or sub-glabrous, pale-green. 
Smooth Cats-ear. 
French, Porcelle Glabre. German, KaMes FerJcelkraut. 
The common name of this plant is from the shape of its leaves, which might be 
supposed to resemble a cat's ear. It was also called Swine's Succory and Gum Succory. 
Gerarde tells us that " the root and leaves tempered with honey, and made into 
trochisks or little flat cakes, with nitre or saltpetre added to them, cleanse away the 
morphea, sunburnings, and all spots of the face." 
SPECIES II.— H Y P O C HCE RIS RADICATA. Linn. 
Plate DCCXC. 
Billot, EL Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 3134. 
Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCXCVII. 
Perennial. Leaves in a rosette, oblong-oblanceolate or lance- 
olate, sinuate-pinnatifid or dentate, sometimes runcinate, usually 
hispid. Stems scape-like, numerous, rather slender, erect or 
ascending, more or less branched. Peduncles elongated, thickened 
upwards, and furnished with numerous small bracts beneath 
the anthodes. Pericline globular-turbinate in bud ; phyllaries 
numerous, generally ciliated on the midrib, the inner ones con- 
siderably shorter than the florets, the outer ones rather lax. 
Achenes strongly muricated, all more or less evidently produced 
into a beak at the apex. 
In fields, pastures, and waste ground. Very common, and 
generally distributed, extending to Orkney. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial or biennial ? 
Summer and Autumn. 
Leaves numerous, much larger and firmer in texture than those 
of the preceding species, and more hairy and usually more deeply 
sinuate. Flowering-stems copiously branched in large examples, 
usually without leaves, or with 1 or 2 small ones. Pericline oblong- 
<-;impanulate in flower, with the phyllaries narrower, more acu- 
minate, and more numerous than in H. glabra. Pales with long 
setaceous points. Anthodes usually much larger than in H. glabra. 
Florets deep yellow, numerous. Achenes large, strongly muricated, 
and with a long beak, in the central ones exceeding the length of 
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