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27. COMPOSITJi:. 



Hedypnois polymorpha. 



clasping ; heads small, solitary, 

 terminating long, stiflf, striate 

 peduncles, v,-liich are usually 

 hollow and swollen towards the 

 top ; involucre cylindrical in 

 flower, globular in fruit, owing 

 to the incurved, rigid bracts, 

 which are glabrous or hairy- 

 siiinulose ; akenes dark - brown 

 with about lo rough, longitudinal 

 ribs, those of the outermost row 

 embraced by the involucral bracts, 

 the inner akenes fewer in num- 

 ber, with 4-5 long bristles exceed- 

 ing the involucre; flowers yellow. 

 Variable plant, sometimes d^varf 

 and unbranched. Bhagadiolus 

 Hedypnois, All. 



Roadsides, pastures. — Sept.- 

 Nov. — Mediterranean region to 

 India. 



25. Hypochceris, L. 



Involucral bracts unequal, overlapping in 2 rows; flowers 

 all ligulate; akenes tapering into a long beak or the outer 

 ones without a beak; pappus of plumose hairs or the outer 

 hairs more or less denticulate ; receptacle with linear, 

 deciduous scales. 



Leaves hairy ; flo\/ei"s longer than involucre ; 



akeiios all beaked 



Leaves subglabrous ; flowers scarcely 



than involucre; outer akenes not 



1. Hypochoeris radi- 

 ca,ta,, L. l{<>otcd Cat's-ear. 

 Perennial with thick rootstock ; 

 stems stift', erect, branching, 

 glabrous or hairy near base, 

 without leaves, but with dis- 

 tant, herbaceous, lanceolate 

 scales ; leaves in a radical rosette, 

 rough -hairy, oblong, sinuate- 

 toothed or pinnatifid with blunt 

 lobes; heads large, terminating 

 peduncles swollen upwards, form- 

 ing a corymb ; involucre shorter 

 than the bright-yellow flowers, 

 bracts lanceolate with scarious 

 edges, glabrous or bristly 

 on the back ; akenes red- 

 dish - brown with longitudinal 

 denticulate ribs, all long- 

 beaked ; pappus in 2 rows, the Hypochoeris 



longer 

 beaked 



adicata 



