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Leontodon Hirtum. Deficient Dandelion. 
LEONTODON Linn. Gen. PI. Syngenesia Polygamia /Equalis. Recept. nudum. Calyx 
imbricatus, fquamis laxiufculis. Pappus plumofus. 
Rail Syn. Gen. 6 . Herbie flore composito natura pleno lactescentes. 
LEONTODON hirtum calyce toto erefto, foliis dentatis hirtis : fetis fimpliciffimis. Linn. Syjt. Veg. 
ed. 14. Murr.p. 715. Sp. P/. ed. 3. p. 1123. Leers F/. Herborn. ed. 2 . p. 172. 
HEDYPNOIS hifpidum var /3 hirtum. Hudfon FI. Angi. ed. 2. p. 340. 
RHAGADIOLUS foliis femipinnatis afperrimis. Haller Hifl. n. 7. 
HIERACIUM pumilum faxatile afperum pramorfa radice. Bauh. Pin. 128. Raii Syn. ed. 3. p. 167. 
Dwarf Rough Stone Hawkweed with bitten Roots. 
HIERACIUM pumilum Alpinum pramorfa radice. Dwarfe Mountaine Hawkweed. Park. Lb. p. j 8 g. 5. 
Among the plants of the Clafs Syngmefia, there are home few whofe feeds are not furnilhed with any pappus 
or down, as the Lapfana communis, and Rhagaiiolu, of Linnasus ; in the prefent plant the feeds in the outer row 
are delt.tute oi pappus, or crowned only with a few very ffiort bridles, while all the others are furnilhed in the 
ufual manner. Haller, the firft author, perhaps, who noticed this appearance, confiders it of fufficient 
confequence to found a genus on ; he therefore makes it a RhagalMus, a genus alfo of Tourneeort’s, 
united by Linn.eus with the Lapfana. ’ 
Leers has very minutely noticed the charaEers in which this plant differs from the hifpidum of Linnasus 
whofe fpecific drfcnptions of the two plants are not fufficiently dffcriminating ; the feta:, as Leers has obferved 
and we have found by experience, varying greatly In both fpecies, for feiii fimplicibus, we would therefore fub- 
ftitute c^yc, bus glubrmfcuy /e, nimbus exterioribus pappo iejlimis, either of which charaBers will diftinguilh 
lh™ge of tfe p^r S “ " ° f rad,Ce P ramorfa “ not to be depended on in all cafes, as it varies with 
When we figured in . the 53 d number of the Flora Load, the Leontodon hifpidum, we had no idea that the 
prerent plant was a d. fit n& fpecies prefummg too much on the charaHer drawn from the noddffg of he 
peduncle, which we had found highly ufeful in afeertaining that fpecies ; we confidered it as a variety Merely 
anfing from fituation, and fuch Ihou d probab y ever have reo-arded it Karl r V • " „ V’ 
attending the outer row of feeds been memioned to us bv a Rofanift of r “ ■ hc «"golf r crcumffances 
Dawson, Minifter of Burgh, in Wound , h 
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The whole plant is much fmaller the leaves fpread more on the ground, and are of a darker colour the 
flower-lfalks are more numerous, lefs upright, not only turning down or nodding at top, but frequently regularly 
thofe of the hfpidum) more refemblmg thofe of fi SS 
fmooth and at the point and edges of a deep purple or blackifh colour; and that as far as w hale obferved 
invariably, many other charafters might be pointed out ; but thefe it is nrefumed k c ° blerv< :° 
be fufficient to make the plant known ; in doubtful cafes recourfe may b c P had to the feed y 5 ®® 1Ie * "i! 
neceffary to wait till that be ripe; the charafter appertaining toltwl be vffihle on / ' ’ "V 1 not be 
“d e i#irent“ ” fl ° Wer: ” ^ ^ ^ ** tW ° P 1 ^ cultivated in the fame foil and ££££*£,*£ 
a knotfedgf ot l“lfnf tuTbe fepmS [STSLnZ^Z rf r? S f ° T"? «» 
very fimilar to that of hifpidum, we have been induced to give it that of defi^M. ^ htr ^ Utuma and whlch 1S fo 
The Leontodon hirtum is frequent on molt of the heaths nnrl . . . , , 
Heath, and Barnes-Common, where it flowers from June to Auguft. - S ° U ° Wn * P articu ^ arl y Hampftead- 
We rarely meet with the hirtum and hifpidum on the fame fpot. 
Fig. l. Corollula. 
2. Series exterior femin. pappo deft. 
3. Semen hujufmodi feorfim pofit. 
4. Semen ex interior part. ft. pappo inftruft. 
A Angle floret. 
The outer row of feeds without any pappus. 
One of. the fame kind placed fingly. 
A feed from the interior part of the flower fur- 
niflied with pappus. 
