484 COMFOSITiB. (COMPOSITE FAMILY.) 



at lower surface, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate. Pedicels short ; heads 

 globular, very hispid — Summer — Lebanon above Besherri. 



* * AJcenes rather large ; j^apjnis in 2 rows, rather rigid^ unequal. 



5. H. Libanoticuin, Boiss. et Bl. % .3, pale-green, hirsute 

 with wavy, plumose-scabrous hairs ; root-stock short, oblique, clumpy; 

 stems slender, 1-leaved, 1-3-headed. Root-leaves rosetted, oblong, 

 more or less dentate ; stem-leaf lanceolate-linear, sessile, clasping. 

 Heads minute ; scales turning black, beset with wavy hairs — July — 

 Subalpine and alpine Lebanon. 



99. A»fI>RYAL.A, L. Andrtala. 



Heads many-flowered. Involucre in 1 row, or with a few, minute, 

 outer scales. Receptacle bristly or sometimes chaffy at margin. Akenes 

 short, columnar-turbinate, tapering at base, 10-ribbed, truncate at tip, 

 minutely toothed by the production of the ribs. Pappus caducous, 

 bristles scabrous-plumose at base — Annual, whitish or rusty-woolly 

 herbs. 



A. dentata, Sibth. et Sm. .3 to .5 ; stem erect, loosely 

 corymbose. Lower leaves obovate, repand, the rest oblong-lanceolate, 

 dentate to pinnatifid, sessile, with rounded base. Heads .01 long ; 

 involucre hispid — May — Sands along coast. 



100. HYPOCHiERIS, L. Hypochjeris. 



Heads many -flowered. Involucre imbricated. Pales of receptacle 

 caducous. Akenes wrinkled, either similar, truncate and beakless, or 

 of two forms, the outer truncate or somewhat tapering, beakless, the 

 inner beaked. Pappus either in 1-2 rows of bristles, the inner row 

 plumose, and the outer, when it exists, shorter, bristly, or of two 

 forms, the inner plumose, and the outer changed into a short, fringed 

 crown — Annual or perennial herbs, with yellow flowers 



H. glabra, L. .2 to. 3; stems simple or branched. Leaves 

 rosetted, oblong-spathulate, obtusely sinuate or toothed. Heads .01 

 long — Spring — Coast about Beirut ; Lebanon. 



101. L.EONTOD0X, L. Hawkbit. Fall Dandelion. 



Heads many-flowered. Involucre imbricated. Receptacle naked. 

 Akenes gradually tapering or elearly beaked, longitudinally striate, 

 sometimes transversely wrinkled. Pappus plumose, persistent ; rays 

 10 or numerous, sometimes dilated, chaffy at base — Annual or [»eren- 

 nial herbs. 



* Annuals. Pappus of 10 hristles, dilated at hise. 



1. L«. lii§pidiiluiii, Del. .1 to .25 ; scapes naked, 1-3-head- 

 ed, twice to thrice as long as leaves. Leaves rosetted, lanceolate, pin- 

 natiparted. Akenes tapering into an z/2.<^i5^i/ici{ heah — April and May 

 — Et-Tih to Egypt. 



Var. tenuilobum, Boiss, Segments of leaves linear, sometimes 

 white-mucronate — Palmyrene desert, and eastward. 



2. Jj. Arabicum, Boiss. .1 to .25 ; scapes naked, 1-3 times 

 as long as leaves. Leaves rosetted, linear in outline, pinnatipartite 



