Leontodon hispidum. Rough Dandelion. 
LEONTODON Lm. Gen. PI. Synbenesia Polygamia AEquALls. 
C “ ,;> * !mbricatus ’ r< F am ‘S Iuxiufculis. Pappus 
Ran Syn. Gen. 6. Herb* flore composito, natura pleno lactescentes. 
LEONTODON hifpidm calyce toto ereflo, foliis dentatis integerrimis hifpidis : fetis ftrcatis. Lin 
Syfi. Vegetab.p. 596. Sp. P/. 1124. FI. Suec. n. 694. 
HEDYPNOIS fcapo nudo unifloro, foliis lanceolatis dentatis hifpidis. Hudfim F/. Angi. 340. 
PICRIS caule nudo, unifloro, foliis afperis dentatis. Haller. Hift. n. 25. 
LEONTODON hifpidum. ScopoliFU Carn. n. 977. 
TARAXACONOIDES perennis et vulgaris. Vmll. A£t. ,721, p. 231. 
HIERACIUM afperum folio magno dentis leonis. Bauh. Pin. 127. 
HIERAC 1 UM dentis leonis folio hirfutum. Ger. em. 303. 
HIERACIUM afperum foliis et floribus dentis leonis bulbofi. Park. 788. 
DENS LEONIS hirfutus Ai riJoVavA©, Hieracium diflus. Rail Syn. p. 171 . Rough Dandelion 
commonly called Dandelion Hawkweed. Lightflot F/. Seel. p. 433. “ 
RADIX perennis obliqua, e nigro-fufca, plurimis fibris ROOT perennial, oblique, of a blackilh brown colour 
pallidioribus, in terram refte demiffis capillata. furnilhed with numerous fibres of a ” „ 
SCAPI plerumque plures ex eadem radice, pedales aut 
fefquipedales, erefti, teretes, fiftulofi, hirfuti, 
fimplices, nudi, fubinde foliolo five pluribus 
inftrufti, fuperne obvie ftriati et incraffati, ad 
bafin purpurei. 
FLORES majufculi, lutei, ante florefcentiam femper 
nutantes. 
CALYX fordide virens, fquamae laxe imbricata, in- 
aequales, pilis longis albidis plerumque fim- 
plicibus liirfutae. 
COROLLA compofita, aequalis, flofculi quinqueden- 
tati, tubus fuperne pilofus, - Jg. 2. 
7 — -- i — j uiuwii coiour, 
furnilhed with numerous fibres of a paler co- 
lour, running ftraight into the earth. 
STALKS ufually feveral from the fame root, a foot or 
a foot and a half high, upright, round, hol- 
low, hirfute, fimple, naked, now and then 
furnilhed with one or more fmall leaves, above 
obvioufly ftriated and thickened, purple at the 
bafe. 
FOLIA radicalia plurima, in pratis fuberefla in apricis | LEAVES /radical leaves numerous, in meadows nearly 
iiipia ten am expanfa, palmaria ieu fpithamsea, UDrieht. in exnofpH (limtlnnc __ 7 
petiolata, oblonga, finuato-dentata, obtufiuf- : 
cula, pallide viridia, hirfuta, pilis ut etiam' 
fcapi furcatis. 
'-Id, ic.ra nuincious, in meadows nearly 
upright, in expofed lituations expanded on the 
ground, a hand’s breadth or more in length, 
Handing on foot-ftalks, oblong, indented and 
toothed, bluntifh, of a pale green colour, hir- 
fute, the hairs as alfo thofe of the ftalk forked 
at the extremity. 
;; FLOWERS largilh, yellow, before blowing always 
; ; drooping. 
: CALYX of a dingy green colour, feales loofely imbri- 
cated, unequal, rough with long whitilh hairs, 
which are for the moft part fimple. 
v COROLLA compound, equal, florets furnilhed with 
if five teeth, the tube hairy on the upper part, 
if Jig. 2. 
SEMINA oblongs, fublinearia, longitudine fee pappi, | SEEDS oblong, nearly linear, slmoft the length of the 
extenoies paululum inctfrvati, interiores re£h, f pappus, the outer ones bending a little inward, 
a lentem tranfverfe lugofi, Jig. 3. J the innermoft ones ftraight, when magnified 
PAPPUS pilofus, feflllis, fig. 4. I DOWN 3 ‘ 
RECEPTACULUM planum, nudum, puiiflatum. * RECEPTACLE flat, naked and dotted. 
Like the other plants of the clafs Syngene/ia, the Leontodon hifpidum Is fubjeft to vary confiderably in fize and 
hainnefs ; but very luckily it has one charafter which attends it in all its Hates, and which never fails to diffinguilh 
it, ,ls blojjoms droop while m the bud : flrikmg as this charafler Is, we believe it has efcaped the oblervation of former 
Botamfts at leaf! it has not been contidered as of the firft confequence in afeertaining the fpecies. The finglenefs 
of its ita,ks alf ° contributes to diflinguifh it from fome other plants of the fame clafs, while the hairs on tile leaves 
afford a more minute diftinftion, being ufually bifid, but not always fo. 
As far as we have had opportunity of otferving, it is a very general plant throughout the kingdom, efpeclally 
vvhere there is chalk or lime-ftone. In fuch fort of paftures it abounds as much as the common Dandelion does in 
rich cultivated ones, and when in flower, which is ufually in July, cloaths them in the fame golden livery. 
As it forms fo confiderable a part of onr paflurage, it is of fome confequence that we fhould know whether Cattle 
ale fond of it, either frefh or made into hay; and we wifhed to lay before our readers the refult of L1NN2EUS or 
his Pupils experiments on this head ; but, though a Swedifh plant, it unfortunately proved to be one of thofe with 
which no experiments were made. 
The common Dandelion, according to the Linnsean chara&er, is certainly no Leontodon, the pappus being 
fimple, and Scopoli has accordingly made another genus of it, Hcdypnois. & 
Mr. Hudson has united the prefent plant, the Leontodon autumnale, two fpecies of Crepis, with the Picris 
echioides , under one genus of the fame name Hedypnois ; and Haller arranges our plant with his Picris. Amidft 
all this confufion we have thought it beft in the prefent inftance to follow Linnaeus, elpecially as there is nothing 
in the fru&ification of our plant which militates againft the generic character of his Leontodon. 
