Hypocheris. | COMPOSIT& (Harv.) 525 
Pappus plumose : 
Invol. imbricate ; recept. = sceoael ; central achenes 
beaked ....... (147) Hypochoeris. 
Inv. uniseriate ; recept. nude ; all the achenes beaked (148) Urospermum. 
Pappus bristle- or hair-like: 
Achenes long-beaked : 
Ach. flattened, smooth or striate ; stem branched (149) Lactuca. 
Achenes oblong, with hard, sharp points at apex ; 
lvs. all radical ; stem scape-like, nude, t-headed (150) Taraxacum, 
Achenes oblong, compressed, the outer with a short, 
inner with a long beak ; leaves radical; stem 
branched, nearly nude = ara (154) Anisoramphus. 
Achenes beakless, or very shortly peaked : 
Achenes 4-5-angled, slightly beaked ; stems trail- 
ing, bearing tufted leaves and axillary fl.-heads (151) Microrhynchus. 
Ach. ‘compressed, beakless ; pappus very soft and 
white ; branching herbs... (152) Sonchus. 
Ach. 5-angled, beakless ; pappus rigid, discoloured ; 
branching herbs ; leaves chiefly radical, rosulate (53) Hieracium. 
CXLVII. HYPOCHERIS, Vaill. 
Heads many-flowered. Jnvol. ovate-oblong or subeampanulate, the 
scales imbricated. ecept. bearing palez between the flowers. <Achenes 
glabrous, rough with sharp points, the marginal ones (in the Cape spe- 
cies ) beakless, those of the centre with a long, slender beak. Pappus 
biseriate, the outer of short bristles, the inner long, plumose. DC. 
Prodr. 7, p. 9°. 
Annual or biennial herbs, glabrous or pilose. Leaves mostly radical, rosulate. 
Flowers yellow. Name, izo, for, and xuipos, a pig; pigs eat the roots greedily. 
1. H. glabra (Linn. sp. 1141); leaves radical, numerous, oblong or /~ 
spathulate, sinuate-toothed or runcinate, glabrous or hispidulous; scapes 
glabrous, leafless, mostly branched, in dwarf specimens simple; invol. 
glabrous; outer achenes beakless, inner long-beaked ; pappus double. 
DC. l.c. 90. Fl. Lond.! t. 149. Fl. Dan. t. 424. H#. Bot. t. 575. H. 
Capensis, Less. Syn. 130. Hyoseris tenella, Th.! Cap. 613. 
Has. Table Mt. summit, common. Simonstown, C. et 2 a E. § Z.1 Dr. 
Wallich, &c. Riv. Zondereinde, Zey./ 3081. Zwartkops R., Zey.! R., Zey.! 
(Herb. Th. D., Hk. , Sd.) 
CXLVIIL UROSPERMUM, Scop. 
Heads many-fl. Invol. campanulate, composed of about 8 uniseriate 
scales, concrete at base into a tube. Recept. without palex, piloso-fim- 
brilliferous. Corolla hairy at the apex of tube and base of limb. Achenes 
sessile, rough with sharp points, beaked, beak very long, hollow, in- 
flated at base. Pappus uniseriate, plumose. DC. Prodr. 7, p. 116. 
Annual or biennial herbs. Leaves more or less pinnatifid or lyrate, the cauline 
amplexicaul. Heads on long, nude peduncles. Flowers yellow. Name, ovpa, a 
tail, and omepyn, seed. 
1. U. picroides (Desf.) ; leaves runcinate, toothed, the cauline with 
sagittate, toothed ears; involucres rough with rigid bristles. DC. J. c. 
116. Tragopogon picroides, Linn. Sp. 1111. Lam. Ill. t. 646, f. 3. T. 
Capensis, Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 577. Urospermum Capense, Spr. 
