THE DAISY FAMILY. 296 



About one hundred and thirty species are indigenous to the British 

 islands, contributing very largely to their floral ornament, especially 

 through the yellow chicory-like genera Crepis, Ajmrgia, Hteracium, 

 and Hypocharis, which in autumn replace the buttercups of spring. 

 The thistles are no less conspicuous in their lively crimson, to say 

 nothing of the daisies that bespangle the pastures most months of the 

 year. Sixty-five, or one-half the number, occur near Manchester. 



PEELIMINAEY ANALYSIS. 

 Section 1. — Floioers wholly yellow. 

 A. — Flowers appearing before the leaves. 

 B. — Flowers appearing simultaneously with the leaves. 

 I. Leaves simple and undivided. 

 II. Leaves more or less pinnatifid, lobed, or jagged, p. 297. 

 III. Leaves doubly pinnatifid, p. 298. 



Section 2. — Flowers not wholly yellow. 



A. — Flowers with a yellow centre and white rays, p. 398. 



B. — Flowers wholly white, p. 299. 



C. — Flowers red, crimson, Ulac, or violet, p. 299. 



D. — Flowers sky-blue, p. 300. 



E. — Flowers (scales of the basket) brownish or gray, p. 300. 



PARTICULAE ANALYSIS. 

 Section 1. — Flowers wholly yellow. 

 A. — Flowers appearing before the leaves ; their stalks 

 three to six inches high, and covered with 

 scales ; the ray-florets needle-shaped. Leaves, 

 when they appear, broadly heart-shaped, several 

 inches across, angular, downy underneath .... 45. Coltsfoot. 



B. — Flowers appearing simultaneously with the leaves. 



I. Leaves simple, varying in different species from 



lanceolate to round or heart-shaped, often 



toothed or waved at the edges, but neither 



jagged, lobed, nor pinnatifid. 

 * Stems one-flowered, leafless, three to four inches 

 high; florets all ligulate. 

 Plant with prostrate, hairy branches ; leaves oblong, 



entire, hairy; flowers lemon-coloured, fragrant 14.Motjse-EA1iHawkweed. 

 Plant without prostrate branches ; leaves lanceolate, 



toothed 2. Hairy Hawkbit. 



