The VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 71 
3. LACINATED WAY WEED. 
Plate 117. Fig. 3. 
Chara£ter of the Species. Catananche Gneca. 
The Leaves are cut into many irregular fegments. 
Fig. 3. a. 
This alfo is an Annual, native of the Greek ill ands, and flowers 
among the damp rocks about the fhore in June and July : the Stalk 
is whitifli : the Leaves are of a greyilh green : the Flowers delicate- 
ly yellow. 
GENUS III. 
G O S M O R E. 
HYPOCHiERIS. 
Character of the Genus. 
The Cup is fwolo, and rounded at the Bafe : the Scales 
of it are lanced and fharp pointed. 
Plate 118. 0 a b. 
i. LONG-ROOTED G O S M O R E. 
Plate 1 1 8. Fig. 1. Long-rooted Hawkwerd. 
Character of the Species. Hypochaeris radicata. 
The Stalk is branched and naked, but for a few Films : 
the Leaves are finuated. 
Fig. 1. a b. 
This is a Perennial, native of our Pafturcs, and common as al- 
moft any Plant which grows in them : it flowers in June. The Leaves 
rife only from the root : they are of a coarfe yellowifh green : the 
Stalk is yellowilh : the Flowers are gold yellow. The Seeds float in 
the air with a feathery down j and this is what our old Englifh 
writers diftinttly called Gofmore. The term has been fince applied to 
the down of any Seed. 
STING- 
