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Small, stemles3 herbs, with the aspect of Taraxacum. Leaves radical, 

 ruminate, glabrous or canous. Scapes 1-headed, short. — 2 species, Western 

 and North-Western. 



GENUS OF DOUBTFUL AFFIXITT. 



146. ARROWSMITHIA, DC. 



Heads many-flowered, radiate ; rays ligulate, female, in 1 

 row ; disk-flowers 5-tootlied, sterile ; all the corollas woolly 

 on the tube. Involucral scales scarious, imbricate, the 

 inner membrane-tipped. E;Gceptacle flat, clothed with linear- 

 setaceous fimbrils. Anthers cuspidate at base, with very 

 slender, partly adnate, bristle-shaped tails. Style thickened 

 upwards, its arms short, convex, obtuse, equally pubescent. 

 Achenes without pappus, those of the ray compressed ; of the 

 disk terete, empty. — Fl. Cap. iii. p. 524. 



A rigid, halfshrub, like a Relhania. Branches leafy to the summit ; 

 leaves rigid, alternate, spreading or reflexed, sessile, lanceolate, pungent, 

 entire, with recurved edges, glabrous above, tomentose beneath. Heads 

 terminal, sessile ; flowers yellow. — Grows on the Katberg. 



TeIBE 6. CiCHORACEiE. (Grcn. 147-154.) 



147. HYPOCHJERIS, Yaill. 



Heads many-flowered. Involucre ovate-oblong or bell- 

 shaped ; the scales imbricate. Eeceptacle bearing palese 

 among the flowers. Achenes glabrous, rough, vnt\\ sharp 

 points, the marginal ones (in our species) beakless, the central 

 with a long, slender beak. Pappus 2-seriate, the outer of 

 short bristles, the inner plumose. — Fl. Cap. \\i. p. 525. 



H. glabra, Linn., a common European weed, occurs apparently in a state 

 of nature throughout the colony. Leaves radical, sinuate or runcmate, 

 subglabrous ; scapes glabrous, branched or simple. 



148. UROSPERMUM, Scop. 



Involucre campanulate, of about 8 1-seriate scales, concrete 

 at base into a tube. Keceptacle without paleae, fimbrilliferous. 

 Corolla hairy on the apex of tube. Achenes sessile, rough 

 with sharp points, beaked ; beak inflated at base, very long. 

 Pappus 1-seriate, plumose. — Fl. Cap. iii. p. 527. 



Annuals or biennials. — P. picroides, Desf., a weed of Euroi^ean origin, is 

 common in waste ground. Leaves runcinate, toothed, the cauline with 

 toothed ears ; involucre bristly. 



149. LACTUCA, Tourn. 



Heads many- or few-flowered. Involucre cylindrical, im- 

 bricate, 2-4-seriate, calycled. Receptacles nude. Achenes 

 flattened, wingless, abruptly produced into a slender beak. 



