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H Y P O C H .E R IS glabra.
Smooth Cat's-ear.
S Y N G E N E S IA Polygamia-aqualis.
G en. Char. Recept. chaffy. Cal. fomewhat imbricated.
Dotvn feathery.
Spec. Char. Nearly fmooth. Calyx oblong, imbricated.
Stem branched, a little leafy. Leaves
dentate or finuated.
Syn. Hypocbaeris glabra. Linn. Sp. PI. i 140.
Hudf. 347. With. 692. Abbot. 173. Curt. Lond.
M c‘ 3- 53-
Hieracium parvum in arenofis nafcens. Rail Syn. 166.
A N A T IV E of dry gravelly or fandy heaths, communicated
from Bedfordfhire by the Rev. Mr. Abbot. It was firft obferved
in Norfolk by the Rev. Mr. Bryant, upon Cawfton heath, and
has fince that time been pointed out to us by Mr. Crowe in
turnep fields about Norwich, but in fo luxuriant a ftate as
fcarcely to be known for the fam,e fpecies. Mr. Curtis’s figure
more approaches to this ftate. Ours expreffes its growth when
out of the reach of all manure. It flowers from June to the
end of Auguft.
Root annual, tapering. Stems feveral, round, fmooth, Ample
or branched, fpreading, and if branched generally bearing a
leaf or two at each divifion. Leaves oblong, or tongue-fhaped,
blunt, toothed, and if luxuriant finuated, nearly fmooth, fhining,
fometimes ciliated and flightly hairy. Flowers terminal, foli-
tary, ereft, palifh yellow, fmall, open only in a morning for 3
or 4 hours in bright weather. Calyx conical, flender, glaucous,
fmooth, its fcales tipped with purple. Florets with 3 teeth.
Chaff of the receptacle long, lanceolate, deciduous. Seed-down
feathery, at firft ereft, then fpreading; in the central florets
the top of the feed is lengthened out into a ftalk that elevates
the down, which in thofe of the circumference is feflile.
This herb is milky and bitter like moft of its natural family.