COMPOSITE 31 



Tribe ClCHORIACE^:. Style cylindrical, pubescent 

 above, branches of style linear, pubescent at the back. 

 Genera 48-68. 



48. ClCHORIUM, L. 



Flowers blue; involucral bracts in two rows; anther- 

 cells not tailed ; pappus scaly. Not alpine. 

 C. Intybus, L., Chicory ; road-sides, common. 



49. ARNOSERIS, Gaertn. 



Flowers yellow ; capitules small, few, on leafless scapes; 

 pappus o; fruit crowned by a coriaceous ring. Not 

 alpine. 



A . pusilla, Gaertn. ; leaves 24 in. long, narrowly ob- 

 ovate, toothed, scape greatly thickened below the capitule ; 

 sandy fields, rare ; Switzerland, Lombardy. 



50. LAPSANA,* L. 



Flowers yellow ; capitules very small, numerous ; in- 

 volucral bracts in one row, erect ; receptacle flat ; anther- 

 cells not tailed ; pappus o. 



L. communis, L., Nipple- Wort ; stem leafy, lower leaves 

 lyrate, pinnatifid, upper entire. Waste ground, common. 



51. APOSERIS, Neck. 



Flowers yellow; capitule large, solitary, on a leafless 

 scape; involucral bracts in one row, with an outer row 

 of small scales ; pappus o. 



A . fcetida, Less. ; fcetid, leaves all radical, runcinate- 



* Continental botanists spell this word Lampsana. 



