132 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Phyllaries glabrous, or hairy on the keel. Achenes of the disk- 

 florets fusiform, attenuated but scarcely beaked at the apex, 

 longitudinally ribbed, with the ribs muricated, and crowned by 

 a pappus of elongated plumose hairs ; those of the circumference 

 cylindrical, truncate at the apex, curved, faintly longitudinally 

 striate, with transverse lines and crowned by a cup-like pappus 

 of scarious scales. 



On sandy and gravelly heaths, commons, and waste places. 

 Common in England, more rare in Scotland, and not extending 

 North of Pifeshire and the neighbourhood of Glasgow. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial or perennial. 

 Summer and Autumn. 



Leaves long, narrow, varying in the depth of their dentation, 

 generally clothed with rather remote hairs, many of which have 

 2 or 3 small hooks at the apex. Scapes numerous in large speci- 

 mens, decumbent at the base, then ascending or erect, sparingly 

 hairy, especially towards the base, longer than the leaves, 2 inches 

 to 1 foot high, slightly enlarged beneath the anthodes. Anthodes 

 oblong-ovoid in bud. Inner phyllaries equal, glabrous or with a 

 line of bristly hairs on the midrib, generally ciliated with woolly 

 hairs at the apex ; outer phyllaries much shorter, imbricated, in 

 about 2 rows. Achenes j inch long ; the central ones, which have a 

 plumose brownish-white papj)us, chestnut-brown, beautifully muri- 

 cated on the ribs, especially towards the apex ; the outer ones pale- 

 brown, very faintly longitudinally ribbed and indistinctly roughened 

 with transverse lines, with a pappus of scales resembling the dilated 

 bases of the hairs of the central achenes, deprived of their elongated 

 slender portion. Plant yellowish-green. 



Sairy Haick-bit. 



French, Thrincie herissee. German, Haariger HundslaUich. 



Sub-Genus II.— APAEGIA. Willd. 



All the achenes with a pappus of elongated hairs. Hairs of 

 the pappus in 2 series ; the inner ones longer, dilated at the base, 

 and plumose ; the outer ones short, filiform, and only scabrous. 

 Rootstock premorse. Anthodes drooping in bud. Hairs of the 

 leaves forked or simple. 



