Pterotheca.'] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 399 



winged on the inner face ; pappus short, hairs very slender, simple, white, sub- 

 connate, deciduous or persistent. DISTKIB. Species 4 or 5, Mediterranean and 

 "W. Asiatic. 



1. P. Falconeri, Hook.f. ; hispid or glandular above or glabrate, radical 

 leaves subsessile obovate or elongate-spathulate sinuate-toothed or pinnatifid, 

 flowering stems leafless subcorymbosely branched above, heads \ in. long broadly 

 cylindric hispid or glabrate, outer invol. bracts very small ovate, inner 8-10 

 linear acute midrib thickened in fruit, achenes very slender straight all terete 

 narrowed above 8-10-ribbed, outer scaberulous, inner smooth longer than the 

 very soft white pappus. P. bifida, Clarke Comp. Ind., 256, not of F. $ M.. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Kashmir, alt. 3-9000 ft. to Kunawur, Falconer, &c. 

 DISTKIB. Afghanistan. 



Annual. Radical leaves 2-8 in., very variable. Flowering stem 6-18 in., slender 

 or stout, corymbosely or paniculately branched above, with minute bracts at the forks 

 or ; branches spreading, usually -with hispid gland-tipped hairs ; peduncles naked ; 

 recept. hairs very slender, flexuous. Achenes in., outer sometimes imperfect white 

 and flattened, perfect terete many-ribbed red-brown ; pappus ^ in., hairs all rather 

 persistent. I advance this species with much hesitation, for though differing in the 

 achenes being all terete and uniformly ribbed from P. bifida,, I find so much variety in 

 the outer achenes of that plant that I suspect this may prove to be a form of it. 

 Clarke refers De Candolle's BarJchausia porrifolia and Roylei to this, but besides the 

 achenes being in no sense beaked, B. porrifolia is founded by Don on a plant of Wal- 

 lich's from Nipal (where P. Falconeri does not occur) which is quite glabrous and 

 glaucous ; and with regard to P. Eoylei the description is not sufficient to identify it ; 

 P. Falconeri does not occur in Eoyle's Herbarium. The genus should be merged in 

 Crepis. 



111. XHERACXUIK, Linn. 



Perennial, leafy, erect or scapigerous herbs, with simple and stellate hairs. 

 Leaves entire or toothed, very rarely pinnatifid. Heads often with black glan- 

 dular hairs, solitary and long-peduncled or narrowly panicled or corymbose, 

 homogamous, yellow, rarely orange or red ; fl. all ligulate. Involucre tubular- 

 carnpanulate or broad ; bracts narrow, herbaceous, inner subequal or not, outer 

 usually smaller, unchanged after flowering ; receptacle flat, naked or shortly 

 fimbrillate. Achenes oblong-cylindric, 10-15 ribbed, terete or angled, base shortly 

 contracted, top truncate ; pappus copious, hairs 1-2-seriate, simple, rigid, fragile, 

 persistent, usually dirty white or brown. DISTEIB. Species about 150, chiefly 

 Western European, a few Asiatic, N, American, Andean, and S. African. 



The Indian Hieracia have been referred by Mr. Baker to European species, and I 

 have followed his identifications, but described them from the Indian examples. The 

 species seem as variable and difficult to define in the East as in the West, and there 

 are several forms from the Himalaya which do not appear referable to any of the 

 following, but are too imperfect for description. The genus wants careful study in 

 the Himalaya. 



1. H. vulg-atum, Koch-, Boiss. FL Orient, iii. 871 ; hirsute or glabrate, 

 radical leaves persistent petioled narrowed at both ends coarsely toothed, lower 

 cauline petioled upper sessile, heads many, peduncles straight glandular, invol. 

 cylindric in bud floccose and with gland-tipped hairs, bracts equal alternate sub- 

 acute. Reiclib. Ic. Fl. Germ. xix. 1. 1526. H. svlvaticuin, Lamk. H. murorum, 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 256. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Garwhal, alt. 6-10,000 ft. DISTEIB. N. 

 Asia, Europe, Arctic America. 



Stolons 0. Leaves 3-5 in., often spotted with black in Europe. Stem 1-2 ft., 



