34 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 



flowers golden-yellow, whitish beneath, outer involucral 

 bracts erect, ripe fruit as long as stalk of pappus ; Carin- 

 thia, very rare. 



55. WlLLEMETIA, Neck. 



Flowers yellow; capitules usually several; involucral 

 bracts in one row with an outer row of scales ; receptacle 

 naked; fruit beaked, toothed, teeth forming a terminal 

 crest; pappus-hairs feathery, simple, white. 



W. hieracioides, Monn. (stipitata, Jacq., apargioides, 

 Willd.); stem angular, stem and involucre rough with 

 dark brown hairs, leaves obovate, sinuate-dentate ; pas- 

 tures, frequent. 



56. PlCRIS, L. 



Flowers yellow ; stem branched, leafy, hairy; capitules 

 usually numerous, corymbose ; involucral bracts in seve- 

 ral rows, the outer ones spreading ; fruit curved ; pappus- 

 hairs in two rows, feathery. 



P. hieracioides , L. (crepoides, Saut.) ; very hispid, stem- 

 leaves half- amplexicaul ; common. P.pyrenaica^.', capi- 

 tules larger, leaves covered with long soft hairs; Jura, 

 Dauphiny, Vosges, Pyrenees, local. 



57. HELMINTHIA, Juss. 



Resembling Picris, but outer involucral bracts cordate ; 

 fruit beaked. 



H. echioides, Gaertn. ; very hispid, capitules large 

 (i in.), lower leaves sinuate-dentate, upper amplexicaul ; 

 cultivated land ; Jura, Styria, Dauphiny, local. 



