268 45. COMPOSITE. 



lowest 1. much narrowed below but scarcely stalked, heads in a 

 rather leafy corymb or panicle, top of ped. floceose, ovate-based 

 inv. uniformly blackish-green nearly glabrous or pilose, phyll. 

 "blunt adpressed, styles livid blackish. H. sabaudum Sm. E. B. 

 o49. Exsicc. Ease. ii. 49. St. 24 ft. high, rigid usually 

 hairy and often very leafy below. Base of corymb or panicle 

 leafy j branches nearly erect. Interm. 1. narrowed to a rounded 

 base ; upper with a broad rounded or subcordate base. Phyll. 

 turning black, scarcely at all setose or floccose, rarely with 

 spreading tips. Pappus whitish. /3. calvatum (F. J. Hanb.) ; 

 st. 15 in. 2 ft. high, very glabrous, 1. few with a tendency to 

 crowding at the base. Heads few large, phyll. broader more 

 obtuse less clothed and very dark, styles very dark. Banks. 

 0. Carnarvonshire. P. VIII. IX. ' E. S. I. 



****** Umbellata. Stem rigid leafy without a basal rosette, 

 sub-umbellate or corymbose at the top. St.-l. narrowed at 

 the base sessile, the nerves on the under surface loosely 

 anastomosing not reticulate-veined. Phyllaries broad 

 obtuse. Ligules glabrous. 



97. H. umbelldtum (L.) ; st. leafy, L all linear or oblong- 

 lanceolate narrowed below sessile net-veined, heads in an um- 

 bellate corymb, top of ped. floccose, turbinate-based inv. uni- 

 formly dark green glabrous, phyll. blunt with recurved points, 

 'styles yellow. E. E. 1771 ; Exsicc. Ease. ii. 50. Stem 14 ft. 

 high, rigid, hairy below. L. usually all alike, or upper rather 

 broad and rounded at the base. Outer phyll. often very small, 

 slender, acute. Inv. very rarely straw-coloured, rarely with a 

 few white hairs. Pappus whitish. /3. cor onopi folium (Bernh.) ; 

 st. 1 3 ft. high corymbose or paniculate, ped. rigid erect or 

 suberect, 1. very long narrow sharply and acutely toothed, sub- 

 glabrous. Exsicc. Fasc. v. 124. y. littorale (Lindeb.) ; st. 

 6 12 in. high hairy floccose, 1. long narrow almost entire 

 especially crowded together at the base of the stem, floccose on 

 both surfaces not hairy, veins prominent. 5. curtum (Linton) ; 

 8 16 in. high, 1. very short almost entire, fl. few rather large 

 on short spreading ped., outer phyll. broad obtuse reflexed. 

 . Ogiueni (Linton) ; 1. fewer, upper sessile, lower narrowing 

 into petioles, panicle sub-umbellate, tips of phyll. not recurved, 

 nearly glabrous, not hairy slightly floccose with few scattered 

 setae. Sandy and stony places, y. Channel Islands. 8. Sand- 

 banks, Carnarvonshire, e. Banks of the Ogwen, Carnarvonshire. 

 P, VII. IX. E. S. I. 



