27. COMPOSTT.E. 



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outer row short and denticulate, the inner row k)ng and 

 phimose. 



Roadsides, pasture. — Nearly all the year. — Europe. 



2. H. g^iabra., L. Glabrous Cat's-ear. Resembles the 

 preceding, but is annual, with a slender taproot ; stems 

 glabrous, naked, except for a few .scales at the summit, 

 sometimes tall and branched, sometimes short and simple; 

 leaves radical, glabrous or with a few stiff hairs on the 

 upper side, sinuate-toothed or pinnatifid. with acute lobes ; 

 heads rather small ; involucre about as long as the yellow 

 flowers, bracts glabrous, lengthening in fruit ; akenes as in 

 the preceding, except that the outer ones have no beak, 

 and the long pappus hairs of the outer akenes are densely 

 and intricately plumose at the base and scarcely more than 

 denticulate above. 



Roadsides, pasture. — Oct. -Dec. — Europe. 



26. Helminthi.\, Jussieu. 



(Greek helminthioii, a little worm; in allusion to the 

 wrinkled seeds resembling a bundle of small worms.) 

 Involucral bracts in 2 rows ; outer ones few, oval- 

 cordate, inner ones lanceolate with long points ; flowers all 

 ligulate ; alcenes long - beaked 

 with plumose pappus; receptacle 

 naked. 



1. Helminthia echi- 



OideS] Gaertn. Ox-iongnc. 

 Erect, annual, covered with 

 stiff hairs, mostly seated on 

 tubercles and some of them 

 hooked ; radical leaves oblong, 

 entire or faintly toothed, nar- 

 rowed into a petiole, the upper 

 ones embracing the stem with 2 

 rounded auricles ; outer involu- 

 cral bracts usually 5 ; inner 8 ; 

 heads corymbose, on stout ped- 

 uncles: akenes yellow or reddish, 

 wrinkled transversely, ending 

 abruptly in a slender beak as 

 long as the akene ; flowers 

 yellow. 



Roadsides and waste places. 

 — Dec. - May. — Europe ; western 

 Asia. 



27. PfcRis, Jussieu. 

 Involucral bracts loosely overlapping in several rows, 

 outer ones usually spreading; flowers all ligulate; akenes 

 tapering upwards; pappus deciduous, all the hairs plumose 

 or the outer ones denticulate only; receptacle naked. 



Helminthia echioides. 



