SYNGENESIA— POLYGAMIA-iEQU. Apargla. 351 



rupt, 5-toothed Jlorets. Filam. capillary, very short. 

 Anth. in a cylindrical tube. Germ, oblong. Style thread- 

 shaped, prominent. Stigm. 2, recurved. Seed-vessel none, 

 except the converging, finally spreading, calyx. Seed 

 oblong, striated. Down sessile, feathery, rather chaffy at 

 the base ; often scaly or unequal in the marginal seeds ; 

 occasionally somewhat stalked in the central ones, fre- 

 quently accompanied by shorter hairs or plumes. Mecepf, 

 dotted, naked, or very slightly hairy. 



Milky herbs, generally stemless, with single-flowered ra- 

 dical stalks. Root almost without exception perennial. 



. Leaves variously toothed or siniiated, mostly hairy. FL 

 of a full yellow, with a hairy or downy calyx, 



1. A. hispida. Rough Hawkblt. 



Stalks naked, single-flowered. Leaves runcinate, rough. 

 Florets hairy at their orifice; glandular at the tip. Seeds 

 scarcely beaked, all with feathery down. 



A. hispida. mild. Sp. Pl.v.3. 1552. Comp.ed. 4. 120. CycZ.n.ll. 

 Hook. Scot. 227. 



Hedypnois hispida. FL Br. 823. Engl. Bot. v. 8. t. 554. Reth. 307. 



Leontodon hispidum. Linn. Sp. PI. 1 124. Curt. Lond.fasc. 5. t.56. 

 Ft. Dan. t. 8G2. 



Picris n. 25. Hall. Hist. v.X.W. 



Dens leonis hirsutus leptocaulos, Hieracium dictus. Rail Syn. 171. 



Hieracium caule aphyllo hirsutum. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 1037./. 1038. 



H. dentls leonis folio hirsutum. Ger. Em. 303./. 



H. foliis et floribus dentis leonis bulbosi. Lob. Ic. 238./. 



Common Rough Dandelion. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 1 1./. 9. 



In pastures, especially on chalk or limestone, plentifully. 



Perennial. Jubj. 



Root tapering, long and slender, externally blackish. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate-oblong, with reversed, nearly equal and regular, teeth ; 

 their base tapering and more entire They are clothed on both 

 sides with prominent hairs, generally forked, rarely simple or 

 three-cleft. Stalks erect, taller than the leaves, simple, round, 

 hollow, rough with similar hairs, without bracteas. FL drooping 

 in the bud, erect when expanded, bright yellow, smaller than 

 the Common Dandelion. Ca/. ovate, hairy. F/ore/s clothed with 

 long, yellow, upright hairs, at the top of the tube externally, and 

 bearing, at the back of each of their 5 teeth, a small triangular 



■ tuft of brov\'n glands, first noticed by the late Mr. Sowerby. 

 Seeds uniform, slender, slightly beaked. Down sessile, of nu- 

 merous, feathery rays unequal in length. A report of the seed- 

 doivn being stalked, arising from a mistaker)j;eference of Haller 

 to Berkhey's Flores Compositi, and pro})agate\by Reichard and 



