SYNGENESIA. JEQUALIS. La*>sana ( 
903 
Curt. 145— {E. Bot. 575. E.)— FI. Dan. 424— Pet. 12. 4— H. Ox. vii. 4. 35 
— Pet. 11. 12— Col. Ecphr. ii. 27. 2. 
Differs from H. radicata in having much smaller blossoms, the scales of the 
calyx smooth, and the keel not fringed. Whole plant smooth. Stems 
(about a foot high, E.) nearly upright, with one or two branches, 
slender, hollow above, solid below. Leaves spear-shaped, indented, 
toothed. Fruit-stalks thickening upwards. Calyx like that of Leontodon 
autumale. Blossom yellow, close. Seeds of the circumference with the 
down sessile; those of the centre, down pedicellate. Habit and appear¬ 
ance that of Leontodon autumnale. Linn. Stem sometimes simple, in the 
autumn much branched and reclining. Leaves in a circle round the root, 
shining; teeth triangular, Woodw. sometimes edged with white hairs. 
Calyx long, conical; scales smooth, blunt, purplish at the ends. 
Smooth Cats’-ear. Sandy and gravelly soils. Near Middleton, War¬ 
wickshire. Ray. Pensham Field, near Pershore. Nash. On the com¬ 
mon, close to the Inn at Bank-top, near Barnsley. Mr. Wood. Sandy 
parts of Norfolk and Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. (Under Greenwich Park 
wall, on Blacliheath. Curtis. Among turnips at Great Barton, Suffolk. 
Sir T. G. Cullum, in Bot. Guide. Sunderland Ballast Hills; Ryegate 
Common, Surry. Mr. Winch. On sandy banks about Plasteirion in Rhyl 
near Rhyddlan, Flintshire. Mr. Griffith. E.) Washwood Heath, near 
Birmingham. A. June—Aug. 
H. radica'ta. Stem branched, naked, smooth : leaves notched, blunt, 
rough: fruit-stalks scaly : (down of all the seeds stalked. E.) 
Curt. 152— (E. Bot. 831. E.)— FI. Dan. 150—Dod. 639. 2— Lob. Obs. 120. 
2, and Ic. i. 238. 1— Ger. Em. 298. 6— Park. 790— H. Ox. vii. 4. 27— 
Ger. 227. 7—Park. 791. 8 —Pet. 11. 11— J. B. ii. 1032. 1. 
Root-leaves spread on the ground, oblong-wedge-shaped, waved or toothed, 
hairy. Branches one or more, thickest upward, each with one flower. 
Woodw. Calyx not distended at the base; scales strap-spear-shaped, 
set along the upper part of the keel with a row of short, taper, dark, 
purple bristles. Seeds scored, rough; pedicle longer than the seed; 
down rather longer than the pedicle. Chaff strap-shaped, tapering and 
yellow towards the top. Blossoms large, yellow within, reddish green 
without. ( Root spindle-shaped, descending to a great depth. E.) 
A dwarf variety with only one flower, and that nearly sessile, lateral, has 
been observed by Mr. Woodward. 
Long-rooted Cat’s-ear. (Welsh: Melynyddgorwreiddiog. E.) Mea¬ 
dows and pastures, common. P. May—Sept.* 
LAP 7 SANA. Receptacle naked : Calyx double : all the inner 
scales channelled : Down none. 
L. commu'nis. Calyxes after flowering, angular: fruit-stalks slender, 
much branched: (stem bearing a panicle: leaves egg-shaped, 
stalked, toothed. E.J 
* (Sheep and cows refuse it. Sinclair. This is the Porceliia of old authors, supposed to 
be a favourite food with pigs ; though probably not more so than some others of the same 
class, as Swine's Succory, ^ow-thistle, &c, E.) 
