400 LXXVI, composirz. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Hieracium. 
stout or slender, paniculately or corymbosely branched. Heads }-} in. diam. <Achenes 
i in., black; pappus as long. 
9. H. crocatum, Fries., glabrous or hirsute, stem leafy simple or 
branched above, radical leaves 0, cauline sessile elliptic linear-oblong or lanceo- 
late glaucous beneath base rounded truneate or cordate entire or toothed, heads 
few or many and erect, peduncles downy glabrous or hirsute, invol. bracts 
glabrous appressed obtuse, outer often slender and recurved. 
WzsrERN HiMALAYA; Kashmir to Dalhousie, alt. 6-8000 ft., Thomson, Clarke 
Western Tiger, Falconer, Heyde.—Disrris, Middle and N. Europe. 
Stem 1-2 ft., strict. Leaves 1-5 in., very variable in shape. Heads $ in. diam. 
Achenes à in., cylindric, faintly ribbed, black, shining. 
3. H. prenanthoides, Villars, Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii, 878 ; glabrous or 
hirsute, glandular above, stem leafy with spreading branches, radical leaves 0, 
cauline oblong or ovate or linear-oblong entire or denticulate glaucous beneath, 
uppermost cordate, heads in branched leafy panicled corymbs floecose and 
with gland-tipped hairs, invol. bracts pubescent. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xix. t. 
1512. 
NomrugnN Kasumi, alt, 8-10,000 ft., Clarke.—DisTRIB. N. Asia, the Caucasus, 
and N. and Mid. Europe. 
Stolons 0. Stem 2-3 ft. Leaves 1-3 in., rather membranous, ciliate. Heads 1 in. 
diam. Achenes nearly } in., strongly ribbed, red-brown. 
4. H. umbellatum, Linn.: Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 877 ; glabrous or hir- 
sute below, eglandular, stem leafy, radical leaves 0, cauline sessile linear 
or linear-oblong narrowed at the base toothed, heads glabrous or with the brac- 
teolate peduncles stellately downy, invol. bracts many outer small recurved, 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 257, excl. syn. and var. y; Reichb. Ie. Fl. Germ. t. 1531, 
Western Himaraya; from Kashmir to Garwhal, alt. 5-10,000 ft.—Duistrim. N. 
Asia to Japan, N. Persia, the Caucasus, N. and Mid. Europe, N. America. 
Stolons 0. Stem 1-2 ft., wiry. Leaves 1-3 in., usually narrow and contracted at 
the base. Achenes as in H. crocatum, from which it appears to me very difficult to 
distinguish this in the Himalaya, 
Van. lanceolata ; smaller, more slender, heads 1-3. H. lanceolatum, Royle mss.— 
Kashmir, alt. 7-8000 ft., Clarke. Baker regards this as a starved state of H. umbel- 
latum; it is very like H. lanceolatum of Villars. 
5. XX. virosum, Pall.; Ledeb. I'l. Ross. ii. 856; glabrous or very sparsely 
hirsute, glaucous, stem stout leafy, leaves sessile short coriaceous oblong-ovate 
base cordate toothed glaucous beneath, heads numerous in short terminal brac- 
teate umbellate corymbs, peduncles short stout bracteolate, invol. bracts glabrous 
outermost small spreading. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ, xix, t. 1536. H. umbella- 
tum, var. y rigidum, Clarke Comp. Ind. 258, H. corymbosum, Pers. Synops. 
ii, 974. 
Kasur, Falconer; Srinuggur, alt, 7-£000 ft., Clarke.-—Distrm. N. Asia from 
Dahuria westwards to Mid, Europe. 
Stolons 0. Stem very stout, stiff. Leaves 1-3 in., crowded, gradually diminishing 
upwards, glabrous above, sparsely ciliate on the margins and beneath. Corymbs with 
ascending short stiff branches. Heads $ in. diam. Achenes Ae in., red-brown. 
11L* HYPOCHZERIS, Linn. 
Perennial, rarely annual, seapigerous herbs, Leaves rosulate, entire toothed 
or pinnatifid. Heads long-peduncled, solitary, yellow, homogamous; fl. all 
ligulate. Znvolucre cylindric-oblong or campanulate; bracts oo-seriate, ap- 
