08 'NIK .lol'K.NAl. OF BOTANY 



nonnumquam infra squamosi, tandem folia rosulata e quibus caules 

 Horiferi crescunt gerentes, per aestatem totam product] ut planta 

 late sei'pat. Caulis gracilescens, JLO— 60 cm. alius, basin versus 



folio supremo minimo 1— i-foliat us, oninino pilis i'uscis 3-6 mm. 

 longis patentibus pilosissimus, superne parce floccosus el pilis obscuri- 

 oribus basi nigrescentibus glandulisque nUmerosis nigris brevioribus 

 vestitus. Ramificatio coryrnbosa, pauca-25-cephala, florifera densa, 

 fructifera laxior. Aeladium pedunculique floceosi, parce pilosi, dense 

 nigro-glandulosi. Bracteaj virides, externe pilosae. Folia angusta, 

 oblongo-lanceolata lingulatave aut interdum oblanceolata basi at- 

 tenuata, 6-10 cm. (raro 16 cm.) longa, P25-2 cm. (raro 3 cm.) lata. 

 obtusa vel mucronata (interiora caulinaque acutiora), subintegra vcl 

 obscure sinuato-denticulata, dilute viridia, superne setis plus minusve 

 longis (2-5 mm.) s?epe numerosis interne marginibusque pilis brevi- 

 oribus rarioribus vestita (in formis umbrosis minus breviusque pilosa). 

 Calatliia circa 20 mm. in diametro, brunneo-crocea sed interdum in 

 medio pallidiora (in sicco obscuriora). Periclinium 7-8 mm. longum, 

 interne rotunda-tum vel tandem truncatum. Squamae angustse, 

 obtusae, olivaceae (in sicco nigrescentes), marginibus obscure vel obso- 

 lete pallidis, interiores apice rubro-tinctae, omnes plus minusve 

 tlocculosa', pilis fuscis vel nigris ad '4 mm. longis et basin versus 

 etiam glanduliferis nigris brevioribus pilosissirnse. Styli pallide lividi, 

 per ligulas croceas, ut videtur, lutescentes. 



Stolons, at least when cultivated, long, mostly a hove (/round and 

 leafy, but sometimes underground and scaly, terminating in rosettes 

 which develop flowering-stems, continuously produced and enabling 

 the plant to spread rapidly. Stem rather slender, 10-60 cm. high, 

 very pilose throughout with spreading dusky hairs 3-6 mm. long, 

 sparingly floccose and with darker or black-based pilose hairs mixed 

 with numerous dark glandular ones above; with 1-4 leaves towards 

 the base, decreasing upwards. Panicle corymbose, few-25-headed, 

 dense in flower, but laxer in fruit. Aeladium and peduncles floccose, 

 sparingly pilose, and densely black-glandular. Bracts green, ex- 

 ternally pilose. Leaves narron\ oblong-lanceolate or Ungulate, or 

 sometimes oblanceolate and attenuate below, 6-10 cm. (rarely 

 16 cm.) long and P25-2 cm. (rarely 3 cm.) broad, obtuse or mucro- 

 nate (inner and cauline more acute), subentire or obscurely sinuate- 

 denticulate, pale green, with more or less abundant pilose hairs of 

 variable length (2-5 mm.) above, and more sparingly and shortly 

 pilose below and on the margins (in shade-forms less and more 

 shortly pilose). Heads rather small, about 20 mm. in diameter, 

 brownish-orange (darker when dried), but sometimes paler in the 

 centre, with involucres 7-8 mm. long, rounded or Anally truncate 

 below. Phgllaries narrow but obtuse, dark green (blackish when 

 dried) with obscure or obsolete paler margins (inner tipped with red), 

 more or less flocculose, abundantly pilose with dark hairs up to 4 mm. 

 lone, and with black glandular hairs intermixed towards the base. 

 Styles light livid, appearing yellowish in contrast with the ligules. 



" Native in the hilly districts of Central Europe from Savoy and 

 Piedmont to North Germany, Galicia, Transsylvania, and the Banat; 

 also in Sweden (ap. Naegeli and Peter). 



