100 



27. co:\irosiT^. 



1. Picris hieracioides, 



L. Erect, branching biennial, 

 rough with spreading hairs 

 which are often hooked ; leaves 

 oblong - lanceolate, lower ones 

 sinuate-toothed, tapering into a 

 long, winged petiole, upper lan- 

 ceolate, entire, half-clasping; 

 heads in a broad corymb, some- 

 times almost umbellate ; involu- 

 cral bracts more or less hairy ; 

 akenes yellow, curved, longitud- 

 inally ribbed and transversely 

 wrinkled, tapering upwards so 

 as oft-en to form a short beak ; 

 pappus dirty-white, the long 

 inner row of hairs plumose, the 

 outer ones shorter and merely 

 denticulate ; flowers yellow. 



Gullies and sea-coast near Ade- 

 laide, the outer involucral bracts 

 very spreading, and the akenes pjcris hieracioid 



distinctly beaked in the maritime 



form (var. squarrosa, Benth.). — Oct. -Jan. — Europe; 



es. 



Asia. 



28. Thrincia, Roth. 



(Greek fhrinkos, a feather; alluding to the feathery 



pappus.) 



Involucre of 2 inner rows of 

 equal bracts and 1 outer row of 

 very short bracts ; flowers all 

 ligulate; outer akenes with a 

 crownshaped pappus, inner ones 

 with a pappus of plumose hairs, 

 slightly enlarged at the base; 

 receptacle naked. 



1. Thrincia 



Lfssrr JIawkhit. 

 perennial, with 

 rootstock, from 

 several long, glabrous peduncles 

 bearing solitary terminal heads; 

 leaves all radical, oblong, pin- 

 natifid or almost entire, more or 

 less hairy; involucre hairy or 

 glabrous, the inner bracts about 

 12, wrapping the outer akenes, 

 which are thick, curved, blunt at 

 base, wrinkled transversely and 



hirta, Roth. 



Biennial or 

 a short thick 



which arise 



Thrincia hirta. 



