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pinnatifid; flowers sulphur-yellow; pastures; Western 
Switzerland, Savoy, Dauphiny, Pyrenees. 
52. LEONTODON, L. 
Flowers yellow; capitules on simple or branched leaf- 
less scapes; involucral bracts in several rows ; receptacle 
naked; pappus (at least partially) feathery. 
Three species of Hawkbit are English, in meadows 
and on dry banks, viz. :—L. autumnalis, leaves glabrous, 
lanceolate, pappus of all the flowers feathery ; L. hzspzdus, 
L. (Apargia hispida, Willd.), leaves oblong-lanceolate, 
hispid, pappus of dll the flowers in two rows, outer 
scabrid, inner feathery; and ZL. hirtus, L. (Thrinaa 
hirta, Roth.), leaves oblong, hispid, pappus of inner 
flowers feathery, of outer composed of toothed scales. 
The following are alpine or sub-alpine:—JL. zucanus, 
Schrk. ; capitule nodding in bud, pappus-hairs all feathery, 
stem, leaves, and involucre hoary with a grey pubescence ; 
Eastern and Southern Switzerland, Tirol, Dauphiny, 
Lombardy. JZ. saxatélis, All.; involucre with black 
woolly hairs, pappus snow-white; Switzerland. JZ. 
Taraxaci, L.; corolla of outermost flowers streaked with 
red beneath, pappus-hairs feathery, brown, involucre 
densely covered with dark brown hairs; high, frequent. 
L. pyrenaicus, Gou.; upper part of stem with a few scales, 
leaf-stalk narrow, leaves often pinnatifid, flowers often 
orange; high, frequent. JL. hastzlis, L.; leaves lanceo- 
late, dentate or sinuate-dentate, very variable; frequent. 
L. crispus, Vill.; leaves sinuate-dentate or pinnatifid, 
hispid; Ticino, Southern Tirol. L. c¢enuzflorus, Rchb. ; 
leaves sinuate-dentate with distant teeth, outer row of 
