134j ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Sub-Gentjs III.— OPOEINIA. Don. 



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

 the pappus in 1 row, all slightly dilated at the base, and plumose. 

 Rootstock premorse. Anthodes erect in bud. Hairs of the leaves 

 simple. 



SPECIES III.— LEONTODON AUTUMNALIS. Linn. 



Plates DCCXCIV. DCCXCV. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1510. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MCCCLVI. Figs. 2, 3. 



Apargia autumnalis, Willd. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 194. Hook. & Am. Brit. 



Fl. ed. viii. p. 210. 

 Oporinia autumnalis, Don. Bromfield, Fl. Vect. p. 281. 



Rootstoek premorse, simple or branched and many-headed. 

 Leaves strapshaped-oblanceolate or oblong-strapshaped or oblan- 

 ceolate-linear, varying from deeply pinnatifid to repand- dentate, 

 glabrous or hairy with simple hairs. Scapes branched, rarely 

 1-flowered, thickened and fistulous at the apex, with numerous 

 small scale-like bracts beneath the anthodes. Anthodes erect 

 before expansion. Phyllaries glabrous or woolly. Achenes all 

 cylindrical, not beaked, longitudinally ribbed, with ribs faintly 

 squamose-muricated. Pappus dirty-white, with all the hairs plu- 

 mose, or rarely a few simple ones below the others. 



Var. a, genuinus. 

 Plate DCCXCIV. 

 Hedypnois autumnalis, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 830. 



Pericline and peduncles glabrous or sub-glabrous. 



Var. 3, pratensis. Koch. 



Plate DCCXCV. 



Hedypnois Taraxici, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1109. 

 Hieracium Taraxici, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1125. 



Pericline, peduncles and upper part of the scape thickly clothed 

 with woolly hairs. 



In meadows, pastures, and waste places. Very common, and 

 universally distributed. Var. in mountainous districts. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer 

 and Autumn. 



