Composite,] 
row, spreading liguhr and short tubes. 
slender, smooth brietto, expanding below ami beconriai 
height of nearly two feet, with have- a- broad as the I'm 
natifid, with loiiu r ; narrow. spreading segments an inch 
Plate LXV1. Fig. 1, receptacle and portion of involucr 
all magnified. 
Gen. XXXV. PICR1S, L. 
Capitulum multiflorurn ; flosculis omnibus ligulatis. Involucn squama- imbn. kte, I \teriorcs pntubc. 
Receptaculum nudum. Achenium sulcatum, jugis apicc transverse rugosis. Pappus 1-2-serialis ; pilis 
plumosis. — Herbfe erecta, scaherukv v. piloses ; foliis alt em is ; capitulis suhcorip, 
Tall, erect, leafy herbs, with milky juice, of which one Kuropcan speci. - also iidial.it- variou- | 
Australia, Tasmania, and X. w Zealand, varying considerably, especially in hairiness, in all places, being sometime* 
nearly smooth, at others very hispid, with still', spreading bri-tlcs Stem* 2-1 feet high. liad'mu 
linear-oblong, blunt, more or less sinuate, toothed and hi>pid ; cauline -mailer, sessile, linear, aeu: 
loosely branched. Peduncles long and slender, often quite smooth. /'<■■ WW W inch 
long, campanulate ; scales in two to three series, hispid and pu h eeee nt ; the oofter abort 
long, forming one row, acuminate. Flowers all ligulate, \ 
white, feathery, soft hairs, dekemt contracted above tOTgld 
1. Picris hieracioides (Linn. Sp. PL 1115); pilus minusve hispido-pilosa, foliis peti, 
lanceolatis sinuatis dentatu wpenw r-on- 
strictis striatis transverse rugulosis. — DC. Prodr. vii. 128. P. attenuata, A. Cunn. in Ann. 21 
125. P. angustifolia, DC. Prodr. vii. 130; Sander in Zinnia, xxv. 529. P. barbarorum, /. 
8c. Nat. Ser. 2. xv. 63. P. squarrosa, Steetz, in Plant. Preiss. i. 488 ; Sonder, I. c. P. asperrima, Lindl. 
in Bot. Reg. 1838, No. 108. {Gunn, 115.) 
Hab. Common in the northern parts of the Island, Gunn, etc.— (Fl. Nov., Dec.) [v. v.) 
Disteib. South-eastern and South-western Australia ; New Zealand ; Temperate Europe and Asia. 
Gen. XXXVI. SOXCIIUS, Z. 
Capitulum multiflorurn; floribus omnibus hermaphroditis, ligulatis. Involucri UflWM 
multi- v. pauci-seriatae. Receptaculum nudum. Achenia omnia conformia, compressa v. 
erostria, lrevia v. tuberculata. Pappus mollis, pluriserialis, pilis tenuissimis albis.— I 
caulibus spongiosis fistulosisve ; foliis altcrnis ; capitulis/ 
1. Sonchus asper (Fuchs, Hist. 674).— S. fallax, Wallroth ; DC. Prodr. vii. 186. - 
7 el 8, Linn. Sp. PI. 1117. S. oleraceus, 0, asper, Di 
Yar. £. megalocarpa ; acheniis crassis late alatis compressts d - spongiosis. 
(Gunn, 845.) 
Hab. Var. /S. megalocarpa, common, but only near the sea on the north shore of the h 
— (Fl. Dec.-Feb.) 
The snbiect of the Southern SoncM aUied to the European S. oUraceus, asper and arvensis, is involved in much 
