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Agoscris gracilcns, or Small-flowered False Dandelion, 

 has lanceolate entire acute leaves and slender scapes ten to 

 eighteen inches high which are woolly at the summit. The 

 bracts of the involucre are narrow and smooth with hairy- 

 fringed margins, and the flowers are a beautiful deep 

 orange. 



Agoseris aurantiaca, or Copper False Dandelion, has 

 deep copper-coloured flowers, which are occasionally pur- 

 plish, otherwise it closely resembles the preceding species. 



MANY-FLOWERED HAWKSBEARD 



Crepis elegans. Composite Family 



Stems: many from a tap-root, diffusely branched. Leaves: entire, or 

 nearly so, radical ones spatulate, cauline ones lanceolate to linear. 

 Flowers: in small numerous-clustered heads. Fruit: achenes linear- 

 fusiform, minutely scabrous on equal narrow ribs, attenuate into a short 

 slender beak ; pappus copious of very slender white bristles. 



The Hawksbeards are all yellow, and their rays are 

 squared and finely toothed at the tips, a characteristic which 

 enables the traveller to at once distinguish them from the 

 Arnicas, to which they bear a strong resemblance. 



The Hawksbeards are not very pretty or very interesting 

 flowers, yet they contribute their share of golden strands to 

 Nature's summer carpet. 



Crepis nana, or Alpine Hawksbeard, is a small alpine 

 species that growls at an altitude of 8000 feet, on barren 

 rocky ground. It is a tiny plant, forming tufts and bearing 

 many clusters of small flowers. 



HAIRY HAWKWEED 



Hieracium Scouleri. Composite Family 



Pubescent with long crisp hairs, pale green. Stems: one to two feet 

 high, very leafy. Leaves: lanceolate, sessile. Flowers: in a loose ir- 



