^SO COMPOSITi^. 



H YPOCH^RIS. F.B.L 78 CXI. * 



Catsear. 



Annual (or perennial) herbs with leaves all near the 

 ground and heads borne singly on nearly leafless simple 

 or branched flower-stems (scapes). Involucral bracts in 

 two or three rows, the outer short, the inner longer. 

 Florets all ligulate and similar, yellow. Receptacle with 

 scales between them. Achenes slender with ten ribs 

 and also cross-wrinkles. Pappus hairs feathery. 



Species about 3 in temperate climates. 



HypochaBris glabra Linn.; F.B.L iii 401, CXI i. 

 Leaves subsessile, obovate or oblanceolate, sinuate 

 toothed. Flower stems about a foot, simple or occasion- 

 ally forked thickened at the top and with a few small 

 bracts. Heads % inch. Outer bracts of involucre short; 

 inner lengthening in fruit to 5^ by J^ inch. Achenes dark 

 brown finely ribbed and wrinkled ; those of the outer 

 florets J^ inch truncate, those of the inner narrowed to 

 a slender beak bearing the pappus. 



A weed on road-sides in Ootacamund, flowering December. 

 Fyson 2034. Native of Europe. 



TARAXACUM. f.b.i. 78 cxii. 



Dandelion. 



Herbs with milky juice, perennial rootstock, and leaves 

 all radical, and characterised by the flower-heads on tall 

 leafless stalks (scapes) rising straight from the root- 

 stock ; the involucres of an inner single circle of erect 

 bracts which do not change after flowering with several 

 outer often recurved bracts ; and the achenes extended 

 upwards in a long beak bearing the pappus hairs which 

 spread out horizontally like a flat umbrella. 



