2,2 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 



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. hispidus^ 

 L. {Apargia hispiday Willd.), leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 hispid, pappus of all the flowers in two rows, outer 

 scabrid, inner feathery; and L. hirtus, L. (Thrincia 

 hirta. Roth.), leaves oblong, hispid, pappus of inner 

 flowers feathery, of outer composed of toothed scales. 



The following are alpine or sub-alpine: — L. incanus, 

 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. L. saxatilis, All. ; involucre with black 

 woolly hairs, pappus snow-white; Switzerland. L. 

 Taraxaciy L. ; corolla of outermost flowers streaked with 

 red beneath, pappus -hairs feathery, brown, involucre 

 densely covered with dark brown hairs; high, frequent. 

 L.pyrenaicuSy Gou. ; upper part of stem with a few scales, 

 leaf-stalk narrow, leaves often pinnatifid, flowers often 

 orange ; high, frequent. L. hastilis, L. ; leaves lanceo- 

 late, dentate or sinuate-dentate, very variable ; frequent. 

 L. crispus, Vill. ; leaves sinuate-dentate or pinnatifid, 

 hispid ; Ticino, Southern Tirol. L. tenuifloruSy Rchb. ; 

 leaves sinuate-dentate with distant teeth, outer row of 



