34 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 
flowers golden-yellow, whitish beneath, outer involucral 
bracts erect, ripe fruit as long as stalk of pappus ; Carin- 
thia, very rare. 
5s, WILLEMETIA, Neck. 
Flowers yellow; capitules usually several ; involucral 
bracts in one row with an outer row of scales; receptacle 
naked; fruit beaked, toothed, teeth forming a terminal 
crest; pappus-hairs feathery, simple, white. 
W. hieractoides, Monn. (stipitata, Jacq., apargiordes, 
Willd.); stem angular, stem and involucre rough with 
dark brown hairs, leaves obovate, sinuate-dentate ; pas- 
tures, frequent. 
56. PICRIS, L. 
Flowers yellow ; stem branched, leafy, hairy ; capitules 
usually numerous, corymbose ; involucral bracts in seve- 
ral rows, the outer ones spreading ; fruit curved ; pappus- 
hairs in two rows, feathery. 
P. hieracioides, L. (crepoides, Saut.); very hispid, stem- 
leaves half-amplexicaul; common. P. pyrenatca, L,; capi- 
tules larger, leaves covered with long soft hairs; Jura, 
Dauphiny, Vosges, Pyrenees, local. 
57. HELMINTHIA, Juss. 
Resembling P2cris, but outer involucral bracts cordate ; 
fruit beaked. 
H. echioides, Geertn.; very hispid, capitules large 
(1 in.), lower leaves sinuate-dentate, upper amplexicaul ; 
cultivated land; Jura, Styria, Dauphiny, local. 
