130 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
the achenes ; the exterior ones with a heak usually less than their 
own length. Plant dull-green, with the leaves commonly hispid, 
and the stems glabrous towards the top. 
A form with glabrous leaves has occurred in Sandown Bay, Isle 
ofWierht. 
Long-rooted Cat's-ear. 
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hViiuli, I'urcelle a tongues Ratines. German, Lanrjioxirzdiges Ferhelkraut. 
Sub-Genus IL— ACHYROPHOUUS. Scop. 
llairs of the pappus in one row, all plumose. 
SPECIES III.— HYPO CHCERIS MACULATA. Linn. 
Plate DCCXCI. 
Billot, El Gall, ct Germ. Exsicc. No. 583. 
Reich. Jo. Fl. Genii, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCXCVI. Fig. 1. 
Perennial. Leaves oblong-elliptical or oblanceolate-cliiptical, 
repand or dentate or sinuate-dentate, hispid. Stems scape-like, 
solitary or few, stout, erect, simple or with 1 or 2 branches, not 
thickened upwards, very sparingly furnished with bracts (more 
I in destitute of them) beneath the anthodes. Pericline globular 
in bud ; phyllaries numerous, entire, linear-lanceolate, the outer 
oiks hairy on the back and adpressed, the middle and inner ones 
woolly-pubescent on the margins, the latter much shorter than 
the florets. Achenes with elevated transverse lines, all beaked. 
On chalky and limestone hills. Hare. The Lizard, Cornwall ; 
Ormes Head, North Wales ; Humphrey Head, Lancashire; Devil's 
Ditch and Gogmagog Hills and Ilildersham, Cambridge; Suffolk. 
England. Perennial. Late Summer and Autumn. 
Leaves less divided than in the last species, generally spotted 
with dark-purple and usually all radical, or the stem with 1 or 2 
small L( '. n't hodes 1 to I, very large. Pericline hemispherical, 
eampanulate in flower; the outer phyllaries with bristly hairs on 
the back. Florets dark-yellow. Achenes scarcely muricated, all 
rather Bhortly beaked, but the beaks of the exterior ones shorter 
than those of the central florets. Plant deep-green, hispid on the 
leaves, and sparingly so on the stem. 
Spotted Cat's-car. 
French, Porcellc Tachee. German, Gefleckter Eachelkopf. 
