COMPOSITE. 199 



Group E.— PSEUDO-ACCIPITUINA {Fseudo^ 

 pulmonaria, Pries). 



Plant slightly glaucous, sub-glabrous, or sparingly hairy, with 

 simple non-glandular hairs. Radical leaves in an imperfect 

 rosette, rarely surviving the winter, and almost always decayed 

 by the time of flowering ; sometimes absent. Stem - leaves 

 numerous; the lower ones sub-petiolate, the upper sessile, not 

 amplexicaul. Phyllaries irregularly imbricated, sub-glabrous or 

 sparingly clothed with short hairs, more rarely with stellate 

 down, nearly or entirely destitute of black gland-tipped hairs. 

 Achenes rather large, brownish-black. 



SPECIES XX VIII.— H lERACIUM GOTHICUM. Fries. 



Plate DCCCLI. 



Meich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MDXXVII. Fig. 2. 

 £ack. Mod. Hier. p. 64. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 206. Eook & Am. Brit. Fl. 

 ed. viu. p. 228. 



Stem leafy, corymbosely or paniculato-corymbosely branched 

 at the apex, sub-glabrous or sparingly clothed with long simple 

 hairs ; the upper part and peduncles with a little stellate down 

 and a few black gland-tipped hairs. Radical leaves usually de- 

 cayed before flowering ; stem-leaves several or numerous, variable 

 in breadth, some of them occasionally aggregated near the base, 

 forming a pseudo-rosette ; lower ones elliptical or oval, attenuated 

 at the base and petiolate ; intermediate ones strapshaped-ellip- 

 tical or oval-elliptical, narrowed towards the base and apex ; 

 upper ones sessile, not amplexicaul, lanceolate acute ; all more or 

 less coarsely serrate towards the middle, with the teeth distant 

 and often elongated, entire at the apex, sub-glabrous above, fre- 

 quently sparingly hairy beneath, or only ciliated at the margins 

 and on the midrib beneath. Anthodes rather large, usually 

 few (3 to 5) in a corymb, or numerous in a corymbose- 

 topped panicle, on straight stout elongated ascending or erect 

 peduncles. Pericline hemispherical at the base, ovate-conical 

 after flowering ; phyllaries numerous, obtuse, the inner ones 

 narrower, dark olive-green, nearly glabrous, or with a few short 

 gland-tipped or simple whitish hairs on the middle line, sometimes 

 with a little stellate down towards the base. Plorets glabrous, 

 not ciliated at the apex. Styles livid-yellow or yellow. 



