. Flowers of the field. Botany. 286 COMPdSIT.'F, Si/f^ fruits slender, all equally long-beaked. â Calcareous soils ; local.â Fl. June, July. Kieiinial 3.* C. setosa.â Occurring as an introduced plant, chiefly in clover-fields, is hispid, i â 3 feet high ; stem erect, branched from the base, angular, furrowed, and leafy : upper leaves large, sagittate ; peduncles slender, stiff deeply grooved, not thickened above ; heads erect when m bud ; jruits slender, all equally long- 1 leaked. â Fl. July, August. Annual or biennial. 4. C. capilldris (Smooth Hawk's - beard). â A variable plant, (4 in. to 3


. Flowers of the field. Botany. 286 COMPdSIT.'F, Si/f^ fruits slender, all equally long-beaked. â Calcareous soils ; local.â Fl. June, July. Kieiinial 3.* C. setosa.â Occurring as an introduced plant, chiefly in clover-fields, is hispid, i â 3 feet high ; stem erect, branched from the base, angular, furrowed, and leafy : upper leaves large, sagittate ; peduncles slender, stiff deeply grooved, not thickened above ; heads erect when m bud ; jruits slender, all equally long- 1 leaked. â Fl. July, August. Annual or biennial. 4. C. capilldris (Smooth Hawk's - beard). â A variable plant, (4 in. to 3 feet in height, glabro'us below ; stem much branched, furrowed ; upper IcaiH's hnear, sagittate ; heads nuirierous, sub-corymbose, \â^ in. across, yellow ; outer bracts adpressed, linear, inner ones smooth* within ; jruit not beaked ; pappus silkwâWaste ground'and cottagu-rriofs ; com- mon.^-Fl. J uneâ.September. Annual. 5. C. biennis (Biennial Ilawk's-beard).â.-V stout hispid ]ilanl, resembling C. taraxaci- ji'lia, but not reil-stained : stem I 4 feet high, channelled ; leaves large, runcinatc, irregu- larly lolied ; Iieads -,-â i in. acrosS;: outer bracts spreading, â injier downy within ; jruit slender, but not beaked.â ("halky soils in the south ; rare. - M. June, July. ]-!iennial. ('. nudlis (blnnt-leaved Hawk's-beard).â .V slender plant, 2 ;, feet high ; leaves (iblong, blunt ; heads few, wllow ; bracts with glandular hairs, the e/,'/^r (jnes short, adpressed ; /;)(// manv- ribbed, not in tlie north : rare. â Fl. July, August, i^erenniaf 7. C. paludasa (AFirsh Hawk's-beard). A slender, unbranched, mostly glabrous S])eeies, about 2 I'cvi high ; stem angular, lealy ; leaves large, runcinatc, with ta|)ering [xiints, the lower ones stalked : the U[iper ones heart-shaped at the base, clasping ;. ci^r^ri^. 'ILL.^KI^. iSniooi]/ ]'k'^^l>u,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been di


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