Hypocheris.] . Lem, cowrostre. (J. D. Hooker.) | 401 
pressed, unchanged after flowering, outer smaller ; receptacle flat, pales narrow, 
usually hyaline. Achenes linear or oblong, terete or compressed, 10-ribbed, ribs 
scabrous or ciliolate, beaked or not; pappus of 1 series of feathery hairs with a 
few shorter simple outer or alternating ones.—DrsTRIB. Species about 3, tem- 
perate and mountain plants of Northern regions, 2 widely diffused through 
cultivation. 
H. GLABRA, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. ii. 783; annual, radical leaves sub- 
sessile obovate or elongate spathulate sinuate-toothed glabrous or scabrous, 
flowering stems many stout simple or branched grooved, peduncles bracteolate 
thickened at the top, heads 3 in. long, invol. bracts equalling the ligules erect 
obtuse or acute, outer achenes truncate inner with a long slender beak. DC. 
Prodr. vii. 90; Reichb. Ic. Fl, Germ. t. 47; Clarke Comp. Ind. 258. 
Nicnerry Mrs., alt. 7-8000 ft., introdueed.—Disrris. Europe. 
Leaves 2-4 in., rarely pinnatifid. Flowering stems 6-12 in., naked or 1-2-bracteo- 
late; invol. bracts few, unequal. Achenes, outer 2 in., shorter than the pappus ; inner 
3 in., beak longer than the body, very slender; pappus as long, scanty. 
112. TARAXACUM, Hal. 
Scapigerous milky herbs. Leaves radical, entire sinuate- or runcinate-pinna- 
lifid. Heads solitary on leafless scapes, yellow, homogamous ; fl. all ligulate. 
Involucre campanulate or oblong; bracts herbaceous, innermost l-seriate, erect, 
subequal, sometimes connate below, unchanged after flowering; outer shorter, 
œ -seriate, often recurved ; receptacle flat, naked. Achenes oblong obovoid or 
narrow, 4—5-angled, or the outer dorsally compressed, beaked, giabrous, 10-ribbed, 
ribs often muricate or echinate above, beak often very long and slender; pappus 
copious, hairs simple, slender, unequal.—Drsrrip. Species about 6, temperate 
and cold regions. 
l. T. officinale, MWiyg.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 787 ; glabrous, or crown 
and scape woolly, root vertical, leaves sessile oblanceolate or linear entire toothed 
pinnatifid or runcinate, lobes acute more or less denticulate, heads solitary, inner 
invol. bracts linear often thickened or clawed at the tip, outer ovate or linear 
appressed or the outer reflexed, achenes narrowly obovoid ribbed, ribs muricate- 
or echinate above the middle suddenly contracted into a very slender beak equal- 
ling or exceeding the body. Clarke Comp. Ind. 258. 
Throughout the Hiwaraya and WESTERN TIBET, from 1-18,000 ft. Misuur Mrs., 
Griffith—Disrrie. Temperate and cold regions of the N. and S. hemisphere. 
One of the most variable of the order. The following are the principal Himalayan 
forms; I am unable to distinguish them in all their states. It is remarkable that this 
common Himalayan plant should not be found in the Khasia or Nilgherry mountains, 
even as a garden escape. 
Van. typica ; leaves deeply runcinate, outer invol. bracts reflexed. Reichb. Ic. Fl. 
Germ. t. 1404.—Ascends to 12,000 ft. 
Var. glaucescens; leaves glaucous runcinate, outer invol. bracts reflexed. T. Wal- 
lichii, DC. Prodr. vii. 147. Leontodon glaucescens, M. Bieb.; Wal. Cat. 3246. 
Van. eriopoda ; crown densely woolly at the bases of the scape and leaves, leaves 
runcinate, outer invol. bracts usually reflexed. T. eriopodum, DC. Prodr. vii. 147. 
Leontodon eriopodum, Don in Mem. Wern. Soc. iii. 413; Prodr. 163 ; Wall. Cut. 3245. 
L. eriopus, Spreng. Syst. iii. 658. 
Van. parvula; dwarf, leaves narrow runcinate or entire sometimes linear, invol. 
braets with broad or narrow white membranous margins, beak sometimes shorter than 
the body of the achene. Leontodon parvulum, Wall. Cat. 3247.— Throughout the 
Himalaya from 10-18,000 D. This includes the forms lividum, salinum, and lepto- 
cephalum figured in Reichb. Ie. Fl. Germ. t. 1400. 
YOL TII. DD 
