SYNGENESI A : POLYGAMIA i^QUALIS. 441 

 In meadows, paftures, and upon thatch'd and turfed 



cottages. O . VII-IX. 

 The ftalk varies from one to three feet high, firm, 

 and round ifh at the bafe, but ftriated or furrow'd 

 upwards : the leaves are generally fmooth, but 

 are fometirries rough, with bifid hairs : the radi- 

 cal leaves are pinnatifid, the fegments acute, 

 often reversed, their fegments at the bafe the 

 longeft i thofe on the branches entire, linear, 

 pointed at the bafe, and the edges rcflex'd ; the 

 branches arife from the bofoms of the leaves : 

 the flowers are yellow, and grow in loofe clufters 

 at the top of the branches : the fcales of the 

 principal calyx are 12 or 13, ered, furrow'd, and 

 fcattcred with glutinous hairs : the fcales of the 

 inferior fupplementary ca!yx are only about five : 

 the ftyles are fufcous and are protruded without 

 the antherce : the down is plumofe, and in this 

 fpecies, contrary to one of the charaders of the 

 genus, is felTile. 

 It Is a very variable plant. 

 ^« Sometimes the leaves are only dented on the edges, 



not jagged, as reprefented in Fetiver\ figure, /. 

 12./. 5. 



Sometimes It Is dwarfifli, and the flalk has no 

 leaves, but only narrow 7?//)«/<f. Fet. herb. t. 12. 

 /• 3. 4- 



HYOSERI5. Gen. pi 916. 



Recept. nudum. Cal. fub^qualis. Pappus pilofus 



vel obfolctus. 



HYOSERIS 



