168 LXX. COMPOSITE. 
TRIBE 6, CicHoRACE®. (Gen. 147-154.) 
Pappus plumose. 
Involucre imbricate ; Bee peg scaly ; central 
achenes beaked . . . . 147. HypocH#RIs. 
Involucre 1-seriate ; receptacle ade all the 
achenes beaked . . . . . . . >. 148. UnospERMUM. 
Pappus bristle- or hair- -shaped. 
Achenes with a long beak. 
Achenes flattened, smooth or striate. Stem 
branched. . . 149. Laoruca. 
Achenes oblong, with hard sharp ‘points at 
the apex. Leavesall radical. Stem scape- 
like, l-headed . . : . 150. Taraxacum. 
Achenes oblong, compressed, the outer with a 
short, inner with a long beak. Leaves ra- 
dical. Stem branched . . . . 154, ANISORAMPHOS. 
Achenes beakless or very shortly beaked. 
Achenes 4-5-angled, slightly beaked. Stems 
trailing, bearing tufted leaves and metic 
flower-heads  . . . 151. MickoRHYNCUS. 
Achenes compressed, beakless. Pappus very 
soft and white. Branching herbs 2. SoncHUs. 
Achenes 5-angled, beakless. Pappus rigid, 
discoloured. Branching herbs. | Leaves 
chiefly radical . . . . . «. . . . « 153. HIERACTUM. 
TrrBE 1. Vernonies. (Gen. 1-6.) 
1, ETHULIA, Cass. 
Heads many-flowered, homogamous. Involucre imbricate ; 
scales herbaceous, acute. Receptacle nude. Corolla bell- 
shaped, 5-fid. Anthers short, mcluded. Style shortly ex- 
serted, its branches bristly. Achenes obconic, 4-angled, 4- 
ribbed, glabrous, truncate, and 4—5-angled at the summit. 
Pappus an entire, thickened rim.—FV. Cap. iii. p. 47. 
Branching, weed-like herbs of hot countries.—Z. conyzoides, Linn., a 
common tropical plant, occurs at Natal. 
2. LITOGYNE, Harv. 
Heads heteromoncecious, many-flowered; central flower 
male, funnel-shaped, 5-toothed; marginal female, in many 
rows, filiform, 3-toothed. Involucre iunbricate, the scales 
acute. Receptacle nude, depressed. Pappus 0.—Male: An- 
thers linear, partly exserted, acute at base. Style simple, 
much exserted, the exserted portion hispid all round. Ovary 
abortive.—Female: Anthers 0. Style exserted, deeply 2-fid, 
the arms glabrous, blunt, spreading. Ovary elabrous, minute, 
ovuliferous. Achenes unknown.— £7. Cap. ii. p. 48 ; Lhes. Cap. 
t. 155 
Much-branched, small, rigid plants, with entire or denticled, alternate 
