SYNGENESIA* ^QUALXS. Lkontodon. 889 
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Marsh) Dandelion. E.) Hedypnois paludosa. Scop. Leontodon liaii. 
Gouan. L. Taraxacum paludosum. Lightf. Picris scapo unifloro, foliis 
glabris semipinnatis , calyce levi. Hall. Leontodon Taraxacum 8 palustris . 
Huds. With. Ed. ii. 
Hinton Moor, Cambridgeshire. Lyons. Moist places on the sides of moun«* 
tains in the Isle of Skye. Lightfoot. (Brome Fen, Norfolk. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward. Wet meadows at Barton Bendish. Rev. R. Forby. At Holford 
ferry, Cornwall. Rev. Pike Jones. In meadows of Dinam demesne, An¬ 
glesey. Welsh Bot. A very small variety of this plant has been remarked 
by Mr. Griffith near Llyn y Cwn, Carnarvonshire. E.) 
P. June—(July. E.) 
(2) Down sessile . 
L. autumna'le. Stem branched; fruit-stalks scaly: leaves spears 
shaped, toothed, very entire, smooth: down mostly sessile. 
(E. Bot. 830. E.)— Fuchs. 320— J. B. ii. 1031— Trag. 265— Dod. 639. 4—« 
Ger. Em. 297. 3— Lonic. i. 92. 3— Ger. 233. 4— Dod. 639. 4— Lob. Obs. 
120. 1, and Ic. i. 237. 2— Ger. Em. 296. 2— Park. 794. 4 —H. Ox. vii. 7. G 
—Matth. 7 66—Pet. 12. 1. 
Boot in the second or third year dying at the end, appearing as if bitten offi 
Stems sometimes thrice as tall as the leaves. Leaves spear-shaped, quite 
smooth; teeth bluntish. Floivering branches nearly of an equal height. 
Calyx inversely egg-shaped, tapering downwards, beset with tapering 
blackish hairs, and a small quantity of cottony substance. Down of the 
central florets, sometimes tapering out into a kind of short pedicle; 
feathered, brownish-white, which colour readily distinguishes it from 
Hypochceris radicata, which it very much resembles, and the others of the 
same tribe which flower in the meadows at the same time. St. Florets 
yellow on both sides. Style and summit set on the upper part with very 
short and exceedingly fine, white, bristly hairs. Doivn about the length 
of the seed, rather longer than the tubular part of the blossom. Seeds 
compressed, striated. 
Autumnal Dandelion. Yellow Devil's Bit. (E. autumnale. Linn. 
Hull. Sibth. Hedypnois autumnalis. Huds. Relh. FI. Brit. Apargia 
autumnalis. Willd. Sm. Hook. E.) Meadows and pastures. 
P. July—-Aug. 
Var. 2. Leaves hairy. Ray. 
With variety 1, and with us the most common. St. 
Var. 3. Leaves wing-cleft. 
Ger. 233. 3-- Pet. 12. 2. 
Hieracium prcemorsum laciniatum . R. Syn. 164. 
Pastures about London. 
Var. 4. Dwarf. Leaves pointed. Pet. 
Pet. 12. 3. 
Hedges about London. 
Hieracium folio acuto minus. R. Syn. 164. 
Var. 5. Dwarf Leaves blunt, like those of L. Taraxacum . Pet. 
With var. 4. 
Pet. 12. 4. 
