15S ENGLISH BOTANY. 
round the exterior achenes, downy within ; exterior ones lax. Ex- 
terior achencs with a beak shorter than the phyllaries ; central ones 
with the beak as long as, or longer, than the phyllaries. Pappus 
pure-white, of soft silky hairs, much exceeding the phyllaries. 
In chalky places and on shingle and railway banks. Rare. It 
occurs in Sussex, Kent, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge, and 
Herefordshire. It is abundant on the shingle between Walmer 
Castle and Kingsdown, Kent, which is the only station in which I 
have seen it growing. 
England. Annual or Biennial. Summer and Autumn. 
Leaves chiefly radical. Stem 9 inches to 2 feet high, erect when 
solitary, but often much branched from the base when the central 
branch-stem, the others spreading-ascending, and curving upwards. 
Branches all terminating in anthodes, which are corymbosely 
arranged ; but the peduncles are so long and remote from each 
other, that the inflorescence loses much of the corymbose character, 
and might better be described as solitary anthodes upon corym- 
boscly-arranged branches. Pericline ovoid in bud, when it hangs 
down. Anthodes f inch across, bright-yellow. Achenes orange- 
brown, the exterior ones with a rather stout beak, not extending 
to the tip of the phyllary in which it is enclosed, and in which it 
remains even after the phyllaries spread like a star ; inner ones with 
much longer beaks, so that the whole of the pappus projects beyond 
the tips of the phyllaries ; all with numerous fine rugose slender ribs. 
Leaves densely pubescent ; pericline hoary, from the abundance of 
grey hairs, which are sometimes intermixed with glandular ones. 
Stinking Hawk 1 's-beard. 
French, Crepide Fetide. German, Stinkende Grundfeste. 
SPECIES II.— CUE PIS TARAXACIFOLIA. ThuU. 
Plate DCCCXVI. 
BiUot, FL Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1913. 
Each. Tc. FL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCCXXXVII. Fig. 2. 
Barkhausia taraxacifulia, D. C. Prod. Vol. VII. p. 154. 
Borkhausia taraxacifolia, Hook. & Arn. Brit. FL ed. viii. p. 215. 
Biennial. Stem branched, chiefly in the upper half, and often 
also from t lie base, sparingly leafy. Leaves runcinate- or lacerate- 
pinnatifid. Anthodes erect in bud, in corymbs terminating the 
stem and branches. Peduncles rather long, straight or only 
slightly incurved, not thickened upwards. Phyllaries hairy or 
nearly glabrous, the inner ones slightly indurated in fruit, not 
