Pl.ex.cal. 39. COMPOSITE, A. 189.Virca. 429 



XIV. 189. VIREA. Adanson. Virey. 



Pericline ovate; scales many, imbricate, unequal, irre- 

 gular ; calathides many-flowered ; cUnanthus convex, rather 

 hairy, with hollow dots, edge of the pits fringed ; akenium 

 streaked; pappus of the circumference sessile; rays chaffy 

 and bristly, mixed, unequal ; of the centre with unequal 

 and featherlike rays. — Leaves mostly radical ; calathides 

 yellow. 



a. Apargise. Tube of the corolla hairy at the mouth; tip of 



the lobes glandular; scape simple. 



1. Virea hispida. Bristly virey. 

 Leaves pinnatifid, oblong, hirsute; hairs forked; scape 



simple, bald ; pericline rather hirsute. 



Dens leonis hirsutus AETrroxauAof, hieracium dictus. Rail Syn. 171,3. 



Hieracium dentis leonis folio liirsutum, Ger. em. 303, 6 ; figure not 

 accurate. 



Hieracium asperum foliis et floribus dentis leonis bulbosi, Park. 788; 

 figure not accurate. 



Leontodon hispidum, Lin. S. P. 1124. 



Hedypnois hispida, Huds. Fl. Angl, 340. 



Dandelion hawk-teeed. 



Chalky pastures ; perennial ; July. 



Root fusiform j calathides drooping, afterwards upright. 



2. Firea incana. Grey virey. 

 Leaves oblong, rather toothed, woolly, rough ; hairs ra- 

 diated at the tip ; scape simple, downy ; pericline downy. 



Dens leonis montanus angustifolius, Raii Syn, 171,4. 

 Plieracium sextum Clusii, Ger. em. 302,3. 

 Hieracium montanum angustifolium. Park. 799. 

 Hieracium incanum, Lin. S. P. 

 Leontodon Taraxacum y, Huds, Fl. Angl. 340. 

 Hieracium alpinum, Villars Delph, 3,94. 



Alpine pastures and walls ; peren. ; May to September. 



b, Virese. Tube of the corolla bald ; tip of the lobes not 



glandular ; scape often branched. 



3. Virea Pyreniaca. Pyrenian virey. 

 Leaves muricated, toothed, bald ; scape simple or slightly 



branched; bractea 1, about the middle of the scape; peri- 

 dine hairy. 



Hieracium Taraxici, Lin. S, P. 1125. 



Picris Taraxici, Allioni Pedem. 1 , 24. 



Hedypnois autumnale e, Huds. Fl, Angl. 3il. 



Hedypnois Taraxaci, Smith FL Brit. 825. 



Leontodon Taraxaci, Engl. Bot, 820. 



Apargia Taraxaci, Willd. S. P. 3, 1550, 



