274 SUMMER FLOWERS. 



lobes, the upper leaves clasping the stem by pointed spreading 

 auricles; flower-heads small, yellow, in loose, often leafy pa- 

 nicles ; involucres often slightly hispid, becoming conical after 

 flowering, the outer bracts narrow-linear, and rather close. — 

 Pastures, dry banks, roadsides, and waste places. Fl. June to 

 September. 



C. paludosa : stems erect, scarcely branched, nearly gla- 

 brous, 1-2 feet high ; leaves ovate, coarsely-toothed, with a 

 few small lobes along the stalk, those of the stem broadly- 

 oblong or lanceolate, pointed, toothed, and clasping the stem 

 by large, pointed auricles ; flower-heads yellow, rather large, 

 in corymbs of 8-10, the involucres more or less hairy, wdth 

 black spreading hairs. — Moist, shady situations. Fl. July to 

 September. 



(173) Hypochceris. 



H. glabra : annual ; stem branched, leafless, glabrous, 3-10 

 inches high ; leaves oblong, dentate-sinuate ; flower-heads 

 small, yellow, the florets scarcely longer than the involucres ; 

 pappus feathery, sessile on the wrinkled achenes of the outer 

 florets, supported on a slender beak in the central ones. — 

 Sandy situations. Fl. July, August. 



H. radicata : leaves all radical, spreading, narrow, more or 

 less toothed or pinnately lobed, hispid on both sides ; stems 

 erect, leafless, 1-2 feet high, divided into tw^o or three long 

 branches, each bearing a few small scales, and terminated by 

 a rather large head of flowers ; involucres nearly an incli long, 

 shorter than the florets; achenes transversely wrinkled, all 

 narrowed into a long, slender beak, with a feathery pappus. — 

 Cat's-ear. — Meadows, pastures, waysides, and waste places. 

 Fl. July. 



