COMPOSITE. 131 



The spotted appearance of the leaves of this plant has given rise to the popular 

 notion that they cure cutaneous eruptions. 



GENUS XXXIL—L EONTODON. Linn. 



Anthodes many-flowered. Pericline oblong-ovoid ; phyllaries 

 numerous, irregularly imbricated in several rows, or in 2 series 

 with the outer ones much shorter. Clinanth naked or slightly 

 fibrinous. Achenes longitudinally ribbed and transversely striate 

 or sub-muricated, attenuated or sometimes beaked at the apex. 

 Pappus of the central achenes of denticulate hairs, the longer ones 

 dilated at the base ; pappus of the achenes of the circumference 

 sometimes very short and composed of scales, but usually similar 

 to that of the central achenes. 



Herbs, with the leaves in a radical rosette. Scapes simple or 

 corymbosely branched. Anthodes rather large. Plorets yellow, 

 the exterior ones often green or reddish on the back. 



The name of this genus of plants comes from the Greek words \ewv {leon), lion, and 

 olovQ {pdous), a tooth, its jagged leaves resembling the jaws of a lion. 



Sub-Genus I.— THRINCIA. Both. 



Achenes of the circumference with a pappus of denticulated 

 scales, and no hairs ; those of the centre with the hairs of the 

 papj)us elongated, dilated at the base, and plumose, often with 

 shorter filiform and scabrous hairs on the outside. Hairs of the 

 leaves forked or simple. 



SPECIES I.— L EONTODON HIRTUS. Linn. 



Plate DCCXCII. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1694 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCLXV. 



Thrincia hirta, Roth. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 194. Hook, k Am. Brit. FL 



ed. viii. p. 210, et Auct. Plur. 

 Hedypnois hirtum, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 555. 



Hootstock generally premorse, more rarely terminating in a 

 tap-root ; radical fibres slender. Leaves strapshaped-oblanceolate 

 or oblong-oblanceolate, repand-dentate or sinuate- dentate, gene- 

 rally hispid with forked hairs. Scapes 1-flowered, sparingly hairy, 

 without leaves or bracts. Anthodes drooping before expansion. 



