SYNGENESIA— POLYGAxMIA-.EQU. Apargia. S5I 



rupt, 5-toothecl Jiorcts, Filmn. capillary, very short. 

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

 shaped, prominent. Sti^m. ^, recurved. Seed-vessel none, 

 except the converging, finally spreading, calyx. Seed 

 oblong, striated. Don-u 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. Bccept. 

 dotted, naked, or very sligluly hairy. 

 Milky herh.<^ generally stemless, with single-flowered ra- 

 dical stalks. Root almost without exception perennial. 

 Leaves variously toothed or sinuated, mostly liairy. /'/. 

 of a full yellow, with a hairy or downy eahjx. 



1. A. hispida. Rough Havvkbit. 



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. IVilld. Sp. PL v. 3. 1 j.V2. Comp. ed.4. 1 20. Ci/rl. ,i.\\. 



Hook. Scot. 227. 

 Hedypnois hispida. Fl. Br. S23. Engl.Bot.v.S.t.b:A. Relli.307. 

 Leontodon hispidum. Linn. Sp. PL 1 124. Curt. Lond.fasc.3. t. 56. 



FL Dan. t. 802. 

 Picris n. 25. HalL Hist.v.l. 11. 



Dens leonis hirsutus leptocaulos, Hieraciumdictus. Bdii Sf/n. 171. 

 Hieracium caule aphyllo hiisutum. Banh. Hist. r. 2. 1037. /'. 103S. 

 H. dentis leonis folio hirsutum. Gcr. Em. 303./, 

 H. foliis et floribiis dentis leonis bidbosi. Lob. /c. 238, /". 

 Common Rough Dandelion. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 1 1./. !). 



In pastures, especially on chalk or limestone, j)lentiful!v. 



Perennial. Jitlt^. 



Root taperino-, lonu; and slender, externally blackish. Lcdvcs lan- 

 ceolate-ohlontj^, with reversed, nearly ecjiial and regular, teeth ; 

 their base tapering and more entire. Tiiev are elotlu'd on both 

 sides with prominent hairs, generally forked, randy siiuplt- or 

 three-cleft. .S7r///.,v erect, talk-r than the leaves, simple, round, 

 hollow, rough with similar hairs, without hnirhuis. Fl. droo])ing 

 ill tlie bud, erect when expanded, bright vellow, smaller than 

 the Common Dandelion. Ctd. ovate, hairy. Florets ilotiied with 

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

 bearing, at the back of eaeh of their .'t teeth, a small triangular 

 tuft of brown glands, (irst noticed by tlu- late Mr. Sowerbv. 

 Seeds uniform, slender, sliglitly beaked. /)()?<•;< sessile, of nu- 

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

 down being stalked, arising from a mistaken reference of Haller 

 to Herkhey's Flares Ctnnpnsiti, and pr<»p;i'j;;ited bv Ihichard and 



