21 <] OOJ&O8IT&, [CuF.i'is. 



furrowed, much branched ; inflorescence usually glandular hairy. leaves often 

 pinnatisect with narrow acute or obtuse lobes, petioled. Heads \-\ in. diam.. 

 campanulate ; outer bracts subulate, inner linear. Fruit red-brown, ribs In 

 or more, smooth. DISTRIB. Europe from Denmark southwards, Canaries. 



2. C. biennis, L. ; hispid, leaves all runcinate lyrate, upper simple 

 sessile, inner bracts pubescent within shorter than the pappus. 



Chalky pastures, from Leicester and Northampton southwards, rare ; Dublin 

 in Ireland ; fl. June-July. Biennial. Stem 1-4 ft., stout, channelled, riblted. 

 Leaves 6-10 in. , lobes very irregular. Heads f-1 in. diam. ; involucre cam- 

 panulate, bracts glabrous externally, outer spreading. Fruit J in., slender, 

 twice as long as in G. vireng, red-brown, ribs close set, prominent, rough. 

 DISTRIB. Europe. Closely resembles C. taraxacifolia. 



3. C. hieracioi'des, Waldst. and Kit, ; glabrous or hairy, lower leaves 

 oblong-spathulate, Upper linear-oblong ^-amplexicaul, bracts with gland- 

 tipped hairs. C. succiscefolia, Tausch. ; Hieracium mollc, Sra. 

 Mountain woods, from Yorkshire northwards to Dumbarton and Forfar ; 



ascending to 1,200 ft. in Northumberland ; not found in Ireland ; fl. July- 

 Aug. Slender, perennial, variable in pubescence. Leaves 2-4 in., obtuse, 

 entire or sinuate-toothed. Heads j 1 in. diam., few ; involucre subcylindric ; 

 outer bracts appressed, short, about as long as the pappus. Fruit con- 

 tracted at the base and tip, ribs many, smooth. DISTRIB. Mid. Europe to 

 the Caucasus. 



Rrn-OKN'. 2. Barkhau'sia, Mcench (gen.). Peduncles slender or 

 thickened upwards. Fruit beaked, many-ribbed, minutely hispid. 



4. C. fee tida, L. ; hispid, stem branched from below, leaves runcinate- 

 pinnatifid, peduncles bracteate incurved thickened upwards, buds drooping, 

 invol. bracts tomentose inner hardening and enclosing the outer fruits. 

 Chalky and gravelly banks in England, rare, from Cambridge and Norfolk to 



Sussex and Kent ; fl. June-July. Annual or biennial. Stem 1-2 ft., terete, 

 faintly furrowed, usually with many ascending corymbose branches. /A <"/.< 

 $ in. diam., bright yellow; peduncles long; invol. bracts often setose and 

 glandular, outer erect or spreading. Fruit yellow-brown, beak of outer 

 shorter than the bracts, of inner longer. DISTRIB. Europe from Belgium 

 southwards, N. Africa. 



5. C. taraxacifolia, Thuill.; hispid, stem branched above, leaves 

 runeinate-pinnatiful, peduncles very slender not thickened, buds erect, 

 inner invol. bracts not enclosing the outer fruits. 



Dry banks and chalky pastures in S.E. England, local, from Yorkshire to 

 Surrey, and in Carnarvon ; fl. June July. Habit and foliage of C. ///</,/,/*. 

 biennial. Stem 1-2 ft., ribbed and furrowed. Heads f-1 in. diam. ; invohictv 

 cylindric-campanulate, often glandular as well as tomentose, outer bracts 

 spreading, not hardening. Flowers yellow, outer striped with brown on the 

 back. Fruits yellow-brown, all long-beaked and very slender. DISTRIB. 

 W. Europe from Balgium southwards, N. Africa. 

 C. SETO'SA, Haller ; hispid, lower leaves sinuate-toothed or runciii:itr- 



pinnatifid, upper amplexicaul, peduncles slender not thickened, buds 



erect, invol. bracts prickly, inner not enclosing the outer fruits. 



Cultivated fields of clover in England, not naturalized even ; fl. Aug. Biennial. 

 Stem 1-3 ft., erect, branched from the base, angled and furrowed, leafy. 



