136 ENGLISH liOTANY. 
SPECIES I.-PICRIS HIERACIOIDES. Linn. 
Plate DCCXCVI. 
Jli'Jnt, PL Gall, et Germ. Exaicc. No. 2871. 
fit ieh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCLXXV. 
Biennial. Stem corymbosely branched, with the branches 
usually spreading. Radical leaves linear-oblanceolate ; stem-leaves 
Btrapshaped ; upper leaves lanceolate, generally semi-amplexicaul ; 
all repand or sinuate-dentate, often undulated at the margins. 
Anthodes corymbose. Pericline not strangulated in fruit ; phyl- 
laries downy and ciliated, hispid with hooked hairs towards the 
base. Achenes fusiform-cylindrical, transversely striate, not beaked. 
Var. a, genuina. 
Plate DCCXCVI. 
P. hieracioides, Jord. Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. II. p. 371. 
Branches divaricate. Anthodes in an irregular corymb. 
Var. 3, arvalis. 
P. arvalis, Jord. Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. II. p. 371. 
Stem with the branches spreading-ascending, Anthodes in 
an umbellate corymb. 
Borders of fields and waste places. Common in chalky dis- 
tricts, and sparingly distributed over the greater part of the South 
and East of England. Var. I have seen from near Groby 
Pool and Market Bosworth, Leicestershire. 
England, Ireland. Biennial or sub-perennial. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
Stem rough with bristly hairs hooked at the apex. Radical 
leaves variable in breadth, attenuated into an indistinct petiole ; 
stem-leaves more attenuated towards the apex, sometimes broad 
towards the base, sometimes attenuated; all commonly undulated. 
Peduncles slightly thickened beneath the anthodes. Pericline 
oblong-ovoid in bud, conico-cylindrical after flowering; outer phyl- 
Laries Bpreading-recurved. Achenes reddish-brown marked with 
contiguous transverse interrupted blunt elevated lines, not beaked. 
Pappus deciduous, of silky plumose hairs. 
Var. (3 is a more slender plant, with the branches less divaricate, 
the Leaves narrower towards the base, and the main peduncles 
springing mostly from one point, scarcely thickened below the 
Hawk-weed Ox-tongue. 
French, Picride Kprrvicre. German, Jlabichtskruula/iuUcher Bilterich. 
