392 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Lapsana. 



Involucre cylindric-campanulate ; inner bract-j subequal, herbaceous, fruiting 

 harder and more convex or keeled, erect, outer few small ; receptacle flat, 

 naked. Achenes oblanceolate, curved subterete, 20-30-ribbed, ribs slender, 

 base narrowed, top rounded ; pappus 0. DISTRIB. Species 3-4, European and 

 Asiatic. 



1. Xi. communis. Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 720; annual, glabrous or 

 hispid below, stem paniculately branched leafy, lower leaves petioled lyrate, 

 cauliue ovate uppermost linear entire, heads corymbose in. long glabrous, DO. 

 Prodr. vii. 76 ; Eeichb. Ic. Fl. Germ, xix. t. 1352 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 250. 



KASHMIR ; alt. 5-6000 ft. DISTRIB. N. & W. Asia, Europe, N. Africa. 



Stem 1-2 ft. Leaves membranous, terminal lobe of radical sinuate-toothed, 

 lateral small. Heads many; peduncle short, slender, naked; invol. bracts 8-10, 

 linear, rigid, keeled, obtuse, glabrous or glandular. Achenes in., pale, shining. 



105. KQBXiPINZA, Pall. 



A glabrous or puberulous weak annual. Leaves chiefly radical, linear, quite 

 entire. Heads sinall, peduucled, yellow, homogamous ; fl. all ligulate. 

 Involucre cylindric ; bracts 5-7, narrow, subequal, thin, base at length keeled, 

 outer very few, small ; receptacle naked. Achenes very long, much exceeding 

 the bracts, spreading and incurved, narrowly linear, ribbed, dorsal ribs with 

 rows of glochidiate spines. 



1. K. linearis, Pall. ; Boiss. FL Orient, iii. 721 ; DC. Prodr. vii. 78 ; 

 Jaub. $ Spac.h. III. PL Orient, t. 286 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 721. Rhagadiolus 

 Kcelpiuia, Willd. Laps ana Kcelpinia, Linn. 



The PUNJAB, KASHMIR and WESTERN TIBET; alt. 2-14,000 ft., Jacgucmoni, &c. 

 DISTRIB. Central and Western Asia, N. Africa, 8. Russia. 



Foot slender. Stem 6-12 in., erect or decumbent, simple or branched, leafy. 

 Leaves 2-6 by / 5- in., gradually narrow* d at both ends. Heads - in. Achenes 

 ^-q in., incurved like birds' claws, puberulous, terminal spines stellate. In seme 

 Aifghan specimens the dorsal spines are almost suppressed. 



10G. RHAGADXOX.US, Juss. 



Annual. Leaves toothed or pinnatifid. Heads small, axillary in the forks 

 or terminal, yellow, homogamous, fl. all ligulate. Involucre subcampanulate ; 

 bracts 1-seriate, at length keeled and embracing the outer achenes ; receptacle 

 naked. Achenes very long, much exceeding the bracts, incurved, narrow, 

 smooth, beaked, outer with a short pappus, inner with a paleaceous pappus. 

 DISTEIB. Species 5, Mediterranean and Oriental. 



1. XI. Hedypnois, Fisch $ Mey. Ind. iv. Scm. Hort. Petrop. 48; glabrous* 

 or sparsely hispid, diffuse, leaves obovate-oblong, stem and peduncles thickened 

 in fruit, achenes glabrous. DC. Prodr. vii. 78. Gastradiolus Hedypnois and 

 augulosus, Jaub. $ Spach 111. PL Orient, iii. t. 2G4, 2G5; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 



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KASHMIR, Falconer. DISTRIB. Westwards to Asia Minor. 



Branches 2-8 in., all spreading from the root. Leaves 1-3 in., narrowed into the 

 petiole. Heads ^-$ in. ; invol. bracts small, subspinulose or smooth in fruit. Achenes 

 \-^ in., narrowed from the base to the incurved tip, terete, smooth. 



107. PICRIS, Linn. 



Erect, branched, hispid herbs. Leaves alternate or radical, entire toothed or 

 pinnatifid. Heads terminal, long-peduncled, homogamous, yellow ; fl. all ligu- 



